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504 reviews for:
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
4.56 AVERAGE
504 reviews for:
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
4.56 AVERAGE
Black leaders, organizers and thinkers across different issues who are talking about vulnerability, grief, love, anger, humanity and many other critical emotions and topics in our world wrote essays that are altogether in one book? Yes, please, I want to read it! And, I enjoyed it, but it felt unfinished or shallow in the sense that it only scratched the surface. It left me with a question of whether or not a publisher loved the idea of this book so much that it may have rushed the writing and production of this collection. At least that's the narrative that I imagine in my head after finishing the book. Do not get me wrong--I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and recommend it to others, for certain. I only wish that each of the authors of the collection had more time or space to go deeper. Maybe I am greedy.
“Isn’t it a drag that we have to pay the price for other people’s hurt? That we have to bear the weight of the trauma that they inflict on us.”
This is a collection of essays by Black writers about shame/resilience and being Black. Some were very personal and some were more academic; some hit me super hard and some I didn’t connect with as much. All of them are needed.
I feel super called out by Tarana Burke’s essay at the end…. <3
I feel super called out by Tarana Burke’s essay at the end…. <3
I saw the authors Tarana Burke and Brene Brown on The Daily Show (I think) and enjoyed their interview and thought this would be a good book to check out. I truly thought I’d finish it in a day or two, but I didn’t. Technically this book is written for a Black audience and I am not Black. It is a series of essays written by many different Black individuals about shame. Most were about personal experience, some more educational. I definitely felt some of the essays were better than others. There were a couple I didn’t feel like I connected with at all. I am glad I read it and I do feel like I’d like to discuss it with others but at this point I don’t know anyone else personally who has read it. I think I’d like it more or get more out of it through a more thorough discussion.
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Beautiful and moving. Each essay touches on so much and we are so fortunate that these authors and human beings are being vulnerable with us in their struggles. It is up to us as white individuals to do better every day and grow in order to create more space so Black people can be their truth, vulnerable, authentic selves.
Beautiful and vulnerable Black experience stories.
Highly recommended for ALL white readers.
Esp: Yolo Akili Robinson's Unlearning Shame and Remembering Love:
Shame is not your name. Shame is not my name. There is nothing wrong with you. There is nothing wrong with me. We have patterns to unlearn, new behaviours to embody, and wounds to heal. But there is nothing wrong with us and the core of who we are. We are unlearning generations of shame and remembering love. It takes time. And the time is now.
Highly recommended for ALL white readers.
Esp: Yolo Akili Robinson's Unlearning Shame and Remembering Love:
Shame is not your name. Shame is not my name. There is nothing wrong with you. There is nothing wrong with me. We have patterns to unlearn, new behaviours to embody, and wounds to heal. But there is nothing wrong with us and the core of who we are. We are unlearning generations of shame and remembering love. It takes time. And the time is now.
These essays were well written and so informative to the experience of BIPOC individuals in our country, and how shame is entangled with it