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A review by saratonin_stories
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
challenging
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
Brown’s words felt familiar, like she put words and perspective mirroring my own experiences from a different lens. The stretching of boundaries/the hope/the fight for justice in college, to the stifling structures that co-opt/put the same white supremacist bones in different progressive clothes, and the perspective on the white church, felt reminiscent of my own experiences.
While I got to learn about the joy and freedom of finding your place in community, see a new perspective of church in the Black church, and ways to frame all the emotions that come along either living in a white supremacist nation.
Browns demands and expectations for love put into words the way I’ve felt about the emptiness behind efforts that failed to impact systemic change. While her reframing of hope feels life changing.
While I got to learn about the joy and freedom of finding your place in community, see a new perspective of church in the Black church, and ways to frame all the emotions that come along either living in a white supremacist nation.
Browns demands and expectations for love put into words the way I’ve felt about the emptiness behind efforts that failed to impact systemic change. While her reframing of hope feels life changing.