A review by v1rgo
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad

Did not finish book. Stopped at 34%.

i absolutely despise dnfing books especially when they're nonfiction but i could not take this. i should have known that i was not the target audience of this book when the white fragility author was cited in the introduction itself. i did not know that this was one of those white people self help books.

okay, so, my issues. i thought the arguments the authors made were extremely simplistic or off base. this was also like far too libfem for my taste. also WHY was ostensibly being used so often! so many things. 
i just... i really wanted to like this! i gritted my teeth and tried to read this for four hours and kept getting annoyed and distracted by the structure or the writing or the general issues i mentioned previously... i'm genuinely upset! 

idk i also feel like i knew about most of the stuff id read so far but i guess that this is like, something white people or people that are not that well versed in feminist theory/history might enjoy? just not my thing at ALL. zero offense to anyone who enjoyed this or the author lol