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A review by lupine
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
4.0
this book is quite intense , as is the intersection of black, female, and feminist in white america. there are a lot of body image, behavior. want to be white like. im not sure how to write about my thoughts but that it is a constant struggle. everywhere there is a way of existing. for example when she moved into Harlem, she did not know how to be black in harlem. she knew how to be black in her own neighborhoods but not harlem, at least in the beginning and as she had admitted. wny is it that society makes it hard to join
her love life and struggle with how she can be like so she can be loved the way she wanted. i praise her holding onto her belief that this person is not it. that she will not give herself to just a person when she doesnt feel comfortable doing so. i think this is especially powerful when she voiced her doubts in herself, her body, her demeanor, her posture, her voice, her hair, her way of explaining herself. I also find it amazing that she had studied Japanese extensively that she is tested proficient. Her escapism to Japan is also another catching arc to me. I think i find comfort in anime as well. i find escapism in the anime character's ability to do what they want and excel when they tried and hold morals in their decisions >< ahhh
"By providing a vision of black french youth, she is saying they are invisible
Appropriation. They are not worthy to tell their own story and the white benefactor will take their story and tell and not direct resources to the story originator
Non black women should not write about black women
Such as orange is the new black. No one in the writers room is a black women. They are all white despite wanting to bring change to the racism in the prison system
Why do you call yourself black and not just human. The disgusting question that says they are approving of your assimilated whiteness.
Huge oak trees in lemonade symboliZing slavery and generational trauma but also healing and regeneration.
Letter to michelle - someone so perfect so pristine. Someone that is a role model for black women "
her love life and struggle with how she can be like so she can be loved the way she wanted. i praise her holding onto her belief that this person is not it. that she will not give herself to just a person when she doesnt feel comfortable doing so. i think this is especially powerful when she voiced her doubts in herself, her body, her demeanor, her posture, her voice, her hair, her way of explaining herself. I also find it amazing that she had studied Japanese extensively that she is tested proficient. Her escapism to Japan is also another catching arc to me. I think i find comfort in anime as well. i find escapism in the anime character's ability to do what they want and excel when they tried and hold morals in their decisions >< ahhh
"By providing a vision of black french youth, she is saying they are invisible
Appropriation. They are not worthy to tell their own story and the white benefactor will take their story and tell and not direct resources to the story originator
Non black women should not write about black women
Such as orange is the new black. No one in the writers room is a black women. They are all white despite wanting to bring change to the racism in the prison system
Why do you call yourself black and not just human. The disgusting question that says they are approving of your assimilated whiteness.
Huge oak trees in lemonade symboliZing slavery and generational trauma but also healing and regeneration.
Letter to michelle - someone so perfect so pristine. Someone that is a role model for black women "