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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
The book was cool. I found the title to be a little misleading for two reasons. For one, I thought the title was referring to black women, but actually she was referring to other women of color (Latinas, Indigenous, etc). Not a problem, because they deserve authors they can relate to as well. But also, it says "a love letter to women of color", but while reading it, it felt more like an autobiography/ love letter to herself.
inspiring
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Wow. I’m done. I love the way Prisca breaks from the negative and moves forward with reassuring messages. Every Brown girl has to read the best book of 2021.
hopeful
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medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
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medium-paced
You will laugh, you will cry, brown girl.. you will feel seen!
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
so much is highlighted !!
also the book was returned automatically but i had four pages left...
also the book was returned automatically but i had four pages left...
"From a really young age I understood that there is a version of me that white people prefer. Because it is a version that gets rewarded. This version does not get teased. This version gets to exist if only on their terms." If I had read nothing else of "For Brown Girls," I would have given it 5 stars for that alone. Rodriguez is adamant that every book does not have to be for every person, and she wrote this with a very specific demographic in mind. I am very far from that demographic, but it still pulled me in immediately. I felt seen in someone else's story, and that is a powerful thing.
She writes with passion, and anger, and sadness, and an acceptance that the space she needed to carve out for herself is not a space that many people, including those in her own family, would ever fully understand. It's hard to be not just first but a series of firsts. The first college graduate in her family. The first divorcee. The first with two degrees. The first to travel. The first to have real privilege while also experiencing just how limited that privilege is in comparison to others.
It's a beautifully written book that I would wholeheartedly recommend for everyone. It might be FOR brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts, but it has something to say TO everyone.
She writes with passion, and anger, and sadness, and an acceptance that the space she needed to carve out for herself is not a space that many people, including those in her own family, would ever fully understand. It's hard to be not just first but a series of firsts. The first college graduate in her family. The first divorcee. The first with two degrees. The first to travel. The first to have real privilege while also experiencing just how limited that privilege is in comparison to others.
It's a beautifully written book that I would wholeheartedly recommend for everyone. It might be FOR brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts, but it has something to say TO everyone.
A perfect book to give to the budding Latinx feminist - a book I wish I would have had when I was 18. I'm excited for all the young people to find this book and learn from this stunning collection of essays that hold no punches. Unapologetic fierce Latinx ways of being provided within these pages. Thank you to Prisca for writing this, it was an offering that I was grateful to witness and receive through her words and vision.