A review by rubixcube_
Who Gets to Be Smart by Bri Lee

5.0

Sometimes you pick up a book because someone somewhere raves about it on their instagram story once and you find it at a garage sale for $8 when christmas shopping with your mum.

I realised i’d be giving this book 5 stars about ten pages in. Bri Lee has a beautiful way with words. Her research feels complete and conclusive and well-rounded and I was drawn in by every paragraph of her own experiences. I loved reading about her epiphanies and learning. Who Gets To Be Smart is a much needed commentary on education and politics and equality in Australia and the World. Egalitarianism in our form of “A Fair Go” is assumed in this country and the depth of prejudice and solidarity for the old order is in need of challenge.