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bookofcinz 's review for:
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
You Are the Best Thing is a collection of essays written by different Black authors about their experience with shame. In the introduction the questions got asked, What is the Black experience with shame resilience? Because white supremacy has added another layer to the kind of shame we have to deal with, and the kind of resilience we have to build, and the kind of vulnerability that we are constantly subjected to whether we choose it or not.
I think overall the collection could have been a lot more cohesive, it did not feel like one overall theme. I did however felt like the essays that were strong were STRONG and the ones that were weak were very meh. I absolutely loved Tanya Denise Fields' Dirty Business Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts Love Lifted Me and Sonya Renee Taylor's Running out of Gas .
I am happy that this collection exists and Black people are able to write freely about shame and examining generational trauma.
I think overall the collection could have been a lot more cohesive, it did not feel like one overall theme. I did however felt like the essays that were strong were STRONG and the ones that were weak were very meh. I absolutely loved Tanya Denise Fields' Dirty Business Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts Love Lifted Me and Sonya Renee Taylor's Running out of Gas .
I am happy that this collection exists and Black people are able to write freely about shame and examining generational trauma.