377 reviews for:

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

4.53 AVERAGE

jessreadsbooks's review against another edition

4.0

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

ltsp25's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Police brutality, Colonisation, Deportation

Minor: Cultural appropriation

sjtc93's review

4.25

funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

johanna_thehissilent's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

mercyevanreads's review

4.0

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

jennyfersbookcart's review

5.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

laurengreely6's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring medium-paced

natwash321's review

5.0

inspiring fast-paced

saltylemonsqueeze's review

4.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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This book should be offered in high schools as our young women start to think about their futures. This coming of age story and reflection is so relatable and things I wish I would have known before pursuing an academic career. Our author is also vulnerable in a way that I would hope starts the healing our women that we need to protect 

cmucce01's review against another edition

4.0

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Honestly, I feel weird rating this book because this book was not written for me. Nevertheless, it was instructive to hear about Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez’s experiences as a Brown woman, an immigrant from Nicaragua, a member of a fundamentalist Christian church, and an escapee of the cult of academia. I loved her thesis — that the writings of Audrey Lorde and bell hooks and the many other incredible anti-colonialist, anti-racist social theorists out there should be made accessible to all, and the way she illustrated her points with relatable stories from her own life. However there were other aspects that I struggled with, such as her reclaiming the chonga label, wearing skin-tight mini dresses and midriff-baring shirts and long acrylic nails as a way to avert the male gaze. In my experience, the male gaze appreciates bare skin and long nails and red lipstick — though her upbringing in the fundamentalist church obviously had a different male gaze than my secular upbringing. Still, a great read, and I am glad to support the author and Latina Rebels while also interrogating my own whiteness.