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A review by heyfeyrey
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
1.0
DNF
I really tried. I love Roxanne Gay's writing, and she very enthusiastically recommended this writer. But where Roxanne Gay has the wisdom and nuance of experience, Morgan Jerkins... doesn't. She comes off as quite young, unaware of her enormous class privilege, and in her eagerness to Make a Point, unable to view people through complex lenses.
And she just... absolutely lost me in her long, rambling "thirsting for dick" chapter. The pages and pages of her describing her tastes in violent pornography (apparently the only thing that gives her the best climaxes of her life) left me cold.
Then there's her strange insistence over multiple chapters that only black and Latina women ever get assaulted or raped (apparently white and Asian women are protected from this?). Her repeated, violent, anti-black fantasies toward black people she views as beneath her.
I just... I really, really wanted to like this book. I think that Morgan Jerkins has promise as a writer, and with more years of experience behind her, that promise might come to fruition. But she's not there yet.
I really tried. I love Roxanne Gay's writing, and she very enthusiastically recommended this writer. But where Roxanne Gay has the wisdom and nuance of experience, Morgan Jerkins... doesn't. She comes off as quite young, unaware of her enormous class privilege, and in her eagerness to Make a Point, unable to view people through complex lenses.
And she just... absolutely lost me in her long, rambling "thirsting for dick" chapter. The pages and pages of her describing her tastes in violent pornography (apparently the only thing that gives her the best climaxes of her life) left me cold.
Then there's her strange insistence over multiple chapters that only black and Latina women ever get assaulted or raped (apparently white and Asian women are protected from this?). Her repeated, violent, anti-black fantasies toward black people she views as beneath her.
I just... I really, really wanted to like this book. I think that Morgan Jerkins has promise as a writer, and with more years of experience behind her, that promise might come to fruition. But she's not there yet.