A review by josephinelena
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

“We cannot become free of things we don’t understand.” Beautifully written, this book combines facts with personal story. She discusses voluntourism, colorism and internalized racism, representation and imposter syndrome, respectability politics, toxic masculinity, intersectionality, white fragility. The author, Prisca, identifies as Latinx and is Nicaraguan who immigrated to the U.S. While our experiences are very different, there were so many stories I related to. I highly recommend this book to everyone, but especially to fellow Latinx women. The author used her beautiful, painful, and incredible personal story to highlight the injustices BIWOC face. It was so powerful. “Freedom is not a destination, it’s a communal journey.”