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For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color
by Prisca Dorcas Mojica RodrÃguez
"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.