This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Audiobook (Free)

From one from the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the real challenges to be a black girl today-perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s WE HAVE TO All Be Feminists.

Morgan Jerkins is in her twenties, but she about This Will Be My Undoing: Living in the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (Light) America has brought herself as an insightful, brutally honest article writer who isn’t scared of tackling difficult, controversial subjects. ON THIS Will End up being My Undoing, she assumes perhaps one of the most provocative modern topics: What does it mean to “end up being”-to live as, to exist as-a black woman today? That is a publication about black females, but it’s required reading for everyone Americans.

Doubly disenfranchised simply by race and gender, frequently deprived of a place within the mainly white mainstream feminist movement, dark women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are hardly ever acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and traditional story of dark feminine oppression that influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated globe at large.

Whether she’s authoring Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex romantic relationship with her own physical body; the discomfort of dating when men say they don’t “discover color”; being truly a dark visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed woman” as well as the paradox of dark feminine sexuality; or impaired dark ladies in the framework from the “Black Girl Magic” motion, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory.