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For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
4.53 AVERAGE
378 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
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
medium-paced
This book echoed so much of how I grew up, and how I felt when I moved to Wisconsin to attend the UW. I wish I had this book then. All women of color, Latine or not, need to read this one. This is a book that centers the Latine perspective, the Mujerista perspective, and there are times when I had to set this down because it reawakened so many instances of microaggressions and regular aggressions I have experienced in my life. The author has done a great job of reignighting my passion for making the world better for my child in the midst of our country's white supremacist structures. Thank you, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez.
"Freedom is not a destination. It's a communal journey. May it heal you... May it lead you back to you."
yes ok I cried and what about it
This book would have ROCKED MY WORLD when I was in high school or even my first year of college. Even now, after continously doing the work to decolonize my life and way of thinking, there were parts of this that challenged me. I'm so grateful that accessible books like this exist for brown girls.
Some parts of this resonated so deeply. From the very beginning about having our hearts first broken by our fathers, to the part about how academia damaged Prisca's relationship with her mami, I felt so seen. And there were lessons here that I wished I could have learned from this book instead of learning the hard way.
The part about how Jane Austen and William Shakespeare are writers that get to be relatable to everyone while Sandra Cisneros is considered niche,,,, yeah ik it's obvious but why have I never thought about that
yes ok I cried and what about it
This book would have ROCKED MY WORLD when I was in high school or even my first year of college. Even now, after continously doing the work to decolonize my life and way of thinking, there were parts of this that challenged me. I'm so grateful that accessible books like this exist for brown girls.
Some parts of this resonated so deeply. From the very beginning about having our hearts first broken by our fathers, to the part about how academia damaged Prisca's relationship with her mami, I felt so seen. And there were lessons here that I wished I could have learned from this book instead of learning the hard way.
The part about how Jane Austen and William Shakespeare are writers that get to be relatable to everyone while Sandra Cisneros is considered niche,,,, yeah ik it's obvious but why have I never thought about that
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has a lot to say and from a perspective that is not my own. I am happy to sit with this book and perspective and really explore ways in which I am challenged to rethink and reframe. I love how she is here to lay it all out clearly as she experiences it and refuses to coat her message in respectability in order to make others feel comfortable. Frank conversations about topics you are probably expecting in feminist theory: intersectionality, femininity, the patriarchy, as well as dismantling notions of higher-education in ways that I have not explored, white fragility, racism of the variety that shocks the hell out of some white people when they are told the shit they are doing is absolutely- in fact- racist, and much more.
I equally enjoyed the moments that called me in and made me analyze my way of existing as well as the many hell yeah moments.
I've already passed this book along and told many others to check it out.
Highly recommend.
I equally enjoyed the moments that called me in and made me analyze my way of existing as well as the many hell yeah moments.
I've already passed this book along and told many others to check it out.
Highly recommend.