5.0
challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

White Tears/Brown Scars was a deeply uncomfortable and necessary read. Hamad explores so many facets of womanhood, history, and feminism and shows many examples of how white women have prioritized their whiteness over true feminist solidarity while telling women of color that they were breaking the sisterhood through discussing racism. I'm not a woman, I'm nonbinary, but I was raised as a woman and I'm perceived as a woman so this was still an important read and let's me reflect on how I interact with woman of color. This is a must read for anyone wearing the feminist label.