Reviews - You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

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You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

Our vulnerability is a strength and helps us to be more human and more connected to others. This collection of essays was honest and heartfelt. Like most essay collections with multiple contributors, sometimes it can be difficult to keep up with the changes in writing styles, tones and subject matter as you go, but overall its a good read.

rachelmax1005's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

madreejima's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

claire60's review

5.0

Amazing collection of thought provoking essays, to be read slowly and savoured. A diverse collection of thinkers including Laverne Cox on trauma in 'hurt people, hurt people' Austin Channing Brown adding further context to Brene Brown's work by showing how hard it is to have joy when you are black in America, I particularly enjoyed the insight she brought and it made me think about my own cultural context in relation to BB's work. An important, easy to read and digest text.

emjaysmusings's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

thisisdanie's review

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

munsonce's review

3.0

challenging informative medium-paced

alisonchannita's review

5.0

“I don’t believe your antiracist work is complete or valid or useful if you haven’t engaged with Black humanity.” -Tarana Burke

I have really been loving essay collections lately—I love the range and depth that a single essay can have. With this collection in particular, I appreciated the vulnerability of each voice that articulated their Black humanity. I don’t take these essays lightly.

My only gripe is the handful of Brené Brown quotes littered throughout. Disclaimer: I am very appreciative of Brené Brown’s work and find a lot of truth to it. While she was only quoted for how she defines terms, like shame and vulnerability, this wasn’t her place and I am wondering why several contributors needed a white woman’s definitions to tell their experiences.