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A review by readerbythewater
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
1.0
This was painful to read. Not because it opened my eyes or changed my perspective, but because it was a collection of angry, disjointed rants by an author more eager to shock* than inform. The repeated theme can be summed up with these two quotes:
"Somehow all my achievements that I had worked so hard to accrue seemed to be steadily whittling away my dating prospects."
"What is it about our goals that leads to our stigmatization? Is it because there is a deep-seated fear black women will outpace black men, and the only way to remind us of our place is to withhold love and affection?"
* One whole chapter describes - in explicit detail - what particular porn she prefers when masturbating. Another chapter is dedicated - again, in explicit detail - to her labia.
"Somehow all my achievements that I had worked so hard to accrue seemed to be steadily whittling away my dating prospects."
"What is it about our goals that leads to our stigmatization? Is it because there is a deep-seated fear black women will outpace black men, and the only way to remind us of our place is to withhold love and affection?"
* One whole chapter describes - in explicit detail - what particular porn she prefers when masturbating. Another chapter is dedicated - again, in explicit detail - to her labia.