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

From the founder of Latina Rebels, a rallying cry for women of color that gives them the keys for their own liberation

“Mojica Rodríguez’s electrifying debut channels mesmeric prose to heal the wounds of white supremacy.” —Los Angeles Times

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.

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

“Prisca has crafted a fierce and vibrant book that brings to life the secret fears and profound hopes of so many brown girls, across so many communities of color. She is a brilliant storyteller with a stunning voice. This is a book for brown girls to hold close.”—Sonalee Rashatwar LCSW MEd, Co-owner of Radical Therapy Center

"I wish I had found this book as a sixteen-year-old, then as a twenty-six-year-old, and again now. Prisca writes with the familiar voice of an older prima that wants to teach you everything she's learned. This book is beyond a love letter. It a reckoning and an affirmation that there is power beyond the fear of our fearlessness. This book has fed me what I did not know I hungered for.”—Yesika Salgado, author of Corazón

“In this book, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez shares truths with precision and unapologetic vulnerability, and teaches us through her stories and insights. Her book is a deep and profound gift for her readers. A necessary and treasured read for generations to come.”

—Johanna Toruño, Salvadoran Multi Media Artist & Founder of The Unapologetic Street Series

“Prisca is a Latinx voice who calls for accountability, healing, and growth in her book. Her writing will connect with our communities, who are seeing themselves represented for the first time. A breath of fresh air."

—Curly Velasquez, Queer Actor and Writer

"I will never forget when Prisca sent me the kindest of messages about the outlet I had founded in 2011 and how it inspired her to set her own course as a influential writer, voice and author. Prisca has the unique talent to speak to her generation with honesty, fearlessness and truth. Her latest work is foundational in understanding what it means to be a Brown girl today."
—Julio Ricardo Varela, award-winning journalist and founder, Latino Rebels

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.