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“healing cannot happen in silence”, love the emphasis bell hooks places on community and the importance it holds. While she is speaking to black women specifically, i found that I related to a lot of what she wrote about feeling lonely and how that loneliness intensifies when you move away from your people
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bell hooks never disappoints! Granted, this is only the second book I have read by bell hooks, but I am still blown away every single time. Even though this is the second edition of Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, everything in this text is still very relevant (unfortunately). For the most part, this text has aged very well (with parts here and there about the gender binary and queerness that would probably need tweaking).
As a Black woman, this text touched me in many ways, expected and unexpected. I loved how bell hooks always manages to grip me with concepts rooted in the academic and based on her lived experience. This is what makes her content so relatable and digestible for readers of all backgrounds. She writes for Black women in mind.
This was not your typical self-help book. There were practical things that Black women could do to connect to themselves, each other, and their communities, however the presentation isn’t in your typical self-help fashion. There are no cliches, no toxic positivity. It is a Black woman getting real with us, using her own life as examples and making sure to reinforce that she isn’t perfect.
I took so many notes. So many things from all the chapters stood out to me. I wanted to make sure I held on to them to use in my own journey to self-actualization.
I always pay attention to the narrators of audiobooks, especially in nonfiction. I pay attention to how I feel as if the narrator is encapsulating the essence of the author. Can they capture the voice that is on the page? For the author of this book, I thought she did a great job engaging with both the text and the listener in a way that portrayed the heart of the book.
Overall, I will always recommend bell hooks. It can be difficult to find bell hooks’ work on audio, but I love that there is an effort to make her books more accessible to all.
As a Black woman, this text touched me in many ways, expected and unexpected. I loved how bell hooks always manages to grip me with concepts rooted in the academic and based on her lived experience. This is what makes her content so relatable and digestible for readers of all backgrounds. She writes for Black women in mind.
This was not your typical self-help book. There were practical things that Black women could do to connect to themselves, each other, and their communities, however the presentation isn’t in your typical self-help fashion. There are no cliches, no toxic positivity. It is a Black woman getting real with us, using her own life as examples and making sure to reinforce that she isn’t perfect.
I took so many notes. So many things from all the chapters stood out to me. I wanted to make sure I held on to them to use in my own journey to self-actualization.
I always pay attention to the narrators of audiobooks, especially in nonfiction. I pay attention to how I feel as if the narrator is encapsulating the essence of the author. Can they capture the voice that is on the page? For the author of this book, I thought she did a great job engaging with both the text and the listener in a way that portrayed the heart of the book.
Overall, I will always recommend bell hooks. It can be difficult to find bell hooks’ work on audio, but I love that there is an effort to make her books more accessible to all.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
emotional
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reflective
medium-paced
challenging
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challenging
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How do we become more healed individuals so that we may build healthier communities? She did what she does best which is to holds up a mirror to the reader and challenges them to go deeper than they thought possible. Through personal examples, analysis of fiction, and historical reflection. bell hooks gives a more wholistic version of self- recovery.
It is a quick book, but I would recommend time to slow down and reflect on the topics she presents and how they may manifest in your own life. Although the title is Sisters of the Yam Black Women and Self- Recovery, this is a book for everyone.
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A good self help book. This book doesn't need any struggle to understanding. hooks successfully lead us to recognize what's wrong with our life, and provide us the way how to life the fullest life.
I'm not sure if I can articulate how important this book is to me, especially at this particular moment. I read Sisters Of The Yam at a time where I have to make a decision that will have a lasting impact- choice to further education, apply for a new position, or attempt both. Reviewing a passage from chapter 3 from a sister who was interviewed " you don't just work to get money, you work to create meaning for yourself and other people" is affirming my personal beliefs that one should never let a job be their identity and that whatever work you do should have meaning.
Another key point in self recovery is the ability to live well. hooks explores an idea that is revolutionary (in my opinion anyway) that black women are entitled to live well. Society's definition of live well differs along racial and gender stereotypes, but hooks explains it as "we feel empowered to make changes, to break with old patterns." There is a huge responsibility with living well, essentially being proactive about how your live vs being reactionary.
The closing chapter, Walking in the Spirit, is not only about being able to connect with a higher power, but healing oneself in solitude. A black woman should embrace oneness as a time to hear God, to renew our spirit. I am definitely in favor of feeling my best, so I can present positive energy to people I encounter and the community at large.
Another key point in self recovery is the ability to live well. hooks explores an idea that is revolutionary (in my opinion anyway) that black women are entitled to live well. Society's definition of live well differs along racial and gender stereotypes, but hooks explains it as "we feel empowered to make changes, to break with old patterns." There is a huge responsibility with living well, essentially being proactive about how your live vs being reactionary.
The closing chapter, Walking in the Spirit, is not only about being able to connect with a higher power, but healing oneself in solitude. A black woman should embrace oneness as a time to hear God, to renew our spirit. I am definitely in favor of feeling my best, so I can present positive energy to people I encounter and the community at large.