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jbrooks124's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
A personal dive into the author's experiences with intersectionality, being a BIPOC immigrant woman navigating predominantly white spaces. Prisca creates some beautiful prose and offers much to consider.
erikabec's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
rosalyn's review against another edition
5.0
When I finished this book, I immediately wanted to read it again, and I've never felt that way about a book before. I recommend listening to the audiobook. By listening, you could tell she poured herself into this book. I felt like I was being hugged by her words. It just really emphasized that this book is truly a love letter to Women of Color. I held in my tears until the end, and I haven't stopped thinking about this book since I finished it. I feel like I will want to read this every year or whenever I need to, as a reminder that everything will be okay. This was the book that I didn't know I needed. Thank you to the author for writing this book. I will be forever grateful that it exists.
bettybookbranch's review against another edition
1.0
I was very excited to get this book and was expecting something completely different. I want to start off saying that I am a Latina with immigrant parents, so this book was targeted to people like me. From the very beginning, it is evident that the author is writing from a place of anger and pain. And although I can relate to many stories of discrimination, I just couldn’t relate to this book. It is very divisive and makes too many generalizations about BIPOC and white people… basically everyone. Throughout the book she uses her skin color to define who she is… but we are much more than that. Every chapter blames someone else (white people) for her bad experiences. There is never any accountability for herself. As a Latina, one of the things I grew up knowing was that I had to advocate for myself. There is none of that in here. It is full of negativity and the assumption that all Latino people need to think the same. She portrays herself as a migrant who is deeply rooted in her Nicaraguan culture, but I’m not convinced. There are too many contradictions in her upbringing that lead me to believe that her experience comes from hatred. For example, she mentions over and over again her strict, evangelical upbringing. Yet she talks about embracing the Chonga culture as her own after she studied it in graduate school. Basically she became something she never was. I am less than impressed with this book and shocked it’s been so well received by Latinos.
frizolio's review against another edition
5.0
Will be thinking about the messages in this book for a long time to come, especially as they relate to my mission as an educator. The author brilliantly weaves her own life story with research, history, and social commentary. Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez is simultaneously angry and hopeful and exhausted and inspired, reinforcing the importance of challenging systemic racism, classicism, sexism, and white supremacy. Knowledge is the key to liberation and freedom for BIWOC to live the life that THEY want and not the one prescribed for them by men, family, spiritual leaders, or society.
susanbrooks's review against another edition
3.0
Fierce and interesting. Some chapters were new ideas to me; others more familiar.