For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

A Love Letter to Women of Color

De: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

Narrado por: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

The founder of Latina Rebels and a “Latinx Activist You Should Know” (Teen Vogue) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms.

For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has created a community to help women fight together. In For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, she offers wisdom and a liberating path forward for all women of color. She crafts powerful ways to address the challenges Brown girls face, from imposter syndrome to colorism. She empowers women to decolonize their worldview, and defy “universal” White narratives, by telling their own stories. Her book guides women of color toward a sense of pride and sisterhood and offers essential tools to energize a movement.

May it spark a fire within you.

©2021 Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez (P)2021 Seal Press

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Searing and revolutionary, this book blazes a trail towards liberation.” (Diane Guerrero, author of In the Country We Love)

"This is the Brown girl manifesto I've been waiting for my whole life." (Erika L. Sánchez, author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter)

"Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez perfectly balances the art of memoir with a biting critical eye, offering an understanding of Latina womanhood bursting with intellect, but grounded in real-life experience. With her carefully chosen words, she invites readers into a deeper relationship with themselves, their communities, and the world at large." (Melissa A. Fabello, PhD, author of Appetite)

Powerful

As a woman of South Asian decent, this hit really close to home. Loved it!

A Turning-Point Experience

Author Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez has gifted the reader with generational knowledge regarding how to navigate spaces where we have historically been unwelcome. She imparts insight, compassion, resolve and determination.
I had to work through this book by taking many extended pauses between chapters to sit with all the family feelings that came up. Ultimately, I always returned because the author continued to inspire me towards academic & professional perseverance without compromising authenticity or right to grievance. I am so grateful to Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez for this wisdom and for being a model of what this work entails.

New perspectives

Couldn't put it down. I felt represented and can relate to the author. Gave me a new perspective on many topics. Highly recommend to any Latin women.

It is not often I binge listen an audiobook ever but I did this time!

Lloré y me desahogué con las historias familiares dentro mi mundo que han existido por siempre! Encontró palabras esta autora para lo que yo sentía pero no podía explicar mucho menos explicar. Aprendí lo que representa BIPOC y ahora entiendo el uso de Latinx! It was just so resonating to hear mi mami y mi papi it helped me relate so much more!! We need more of this so we can be represented, be inspired and follow the call to action that is not only necessary but required of us!! I’m re inspired to use “my gifts” of being fully bilingual as my therapist explained and pointed out to help my gente!! I have rediscovered my voice and purpose thanks to this book! My hope is to share with all my “esas” out there who I always inevitably am drawn to in every room of 50 I will always seek out and find mis brujas y comadres! Gracias por este libro encantador!!

Loved it!

Never imagined someone else felt exactly as I did. I felt understood for the first time when it comes to the traumas I suffered as a immigrant child.

Love, love, love

I felt like this book told my story. Must read for any BIWOC young, old, or in between.

Beautiful love letter

The thank you note to her mom brought me to tears. Beautiful. Thank you from this Brown Girl.

A must listen

This book helped me understand who I am as a Latinx woman. It gave me a renewed appreciation of my mama and all the sacrifices she’s made. It helped me learn how my brown sisters struggles are real and are mine too even though I am not the same skin tone as they are. Thank you for this beautiful story and life lesson.

Thank you, Prisca.

I don’t know the last time I finished a book this quickly. This book is healing, life giving, beauty, poderosa, and so much more. Absolutely loved and appreciated listening to Prisca read it.

A beautiful healing journey I didn’t know I needed.

There was some harshness in this book and experiences that I didn’t immediately connect with, but as this progressed, I understood so much more and, upon reflection, realized the parallels in my lived experiences that hit home so hard. 10/10 recommend for anyone looking to unpack their brown-based traumas, heal, and aspire to an elevated form of freedom.