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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
Such a beautiful and important book for our times. A collection of some of the most thoughtful African American wisdom keepers. Writing on a diverse arrayed topics but all focused around the shame that we carry. Edited by Tarana Burke who also provides the final brilliant epistle to her future self.
So many thought around stress, safety and wellness and surviving and thriving within a white supremacy world. Will be thinking of this book for a long while.
So many thought around stress, safety and wellness and surviving and thriving within a white supremacy world. Will be thinking of this book for a long while.
I’m not sure my words or a star rating could do this book justice. I think by the nature the essays and research and real lives they come from make this beautifully vulnerable. Everyone should read this.
Tarana Burke and Brené Brown edit this collection from Black writers about shame and vulnerability and resiliency-all with stories about what it means to be vulnerable as a Black person in a world built and run by white supremacy. What does that looks like?
I read this and it made me remember, again, (a sign of incredible privilege I have to remember rather than knowing) how so often the conversation around resiliency and shame doesn’t touch on all the aspects, and how the world we live in, a world built and maintained by white supremacist systems affects everything-how we have these conversations and what voices and experiences we listen to-matters.
I read this and it made me remember, again, (a sign of incredible privilege I have to remember rather than knowing) how so often the conversation around resiliency and shame doesn’t touch on all the aspects, and how the world we live in, a world built and maintained by white supremacist systems affects everything-how we have these conversations and what voices and experiences we listen to-matters.
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
One of those books that makes you sit back and think, feel, cry, and listen.
The vulnerability of every story was inspiring.
The vulnerability of every story was inspiring.
this was great. that last essay by Tarana Burke - wow.
all of the essays. wow.
I'd recommend this to anyone. Everyone should read it.
all of the essays. wow.
I'd recommend this to anyone. Everyone should read it.
Amazing collection of essays from so many inspirational voices. Really provided a range of perspectives.
This should have stayed a text between two friends. The Black founder of the Me Too movement and a white researcher/writer work together on a book about "the Black experience with vulnerability and shame resilience." Does this sound like a perfect pair for such a topic? While I liked a couple of the essays, overall it is not recommendable. ~LiteraryMarie