Reviews tagging 'Racism'

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

7 reviews

exhilaratezara's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

I read this in a group of fellow femmes of Central American, South American & Caribbean heritage and it was a lovely experience. Some passages were tough to get through since I could relate a lot to Prisca’s life stories. I liked how she wrote in rhythm and patterns so it felt like poetry was weaved into the stories as well. I appreciated her direct and hard truths she told with a fair amount of context. So much love to my fellow brown girls with soft edges and tender hearts ♥️💅👑

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Genocide, Racism, and Sexism

sammieunfiltered's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racism, and Sexism

risaleel's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Colonisation, Genocide, Bullying, Gaslighting, Racism, Religious bigotry, War, and Xenophobia

mildlypretentiousreader's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Toxic friendship, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Deportation, Hate crime, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, and Gaslighting

pika_chuu's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

A great book. Had a lot of academic language for me so took me some time to read but I liked it. Experienced a lot of what she said in academia. It kinda reads like an essay but also not if that makes sense. Glad I read her book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Domestic abuse, and Sexism

amandalorianxo's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book spoke to me in more ways than one. As a first Gen Brazilian American, sometimes venting about my struggles to people who weren’t born under similar circumstances can be challenging. This felt like I was being seen for the first time in a long time. Of course, the author’s story and others are not all the same when it comes to colorism, racism and discrimination but I felt as if this was the book an older sister would give me whenever I needed comforting. To all my Latina / Latinx sisters (cis, trans and non-binary) this book is for all of us 🤎❤️

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Colonisation, and Racial slurs

booksybochinche's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Racism