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I really enjoyed the picture that Morgan paints of being a Black woman in white, black AND other POC spaces. From "How To Be Docile" and the standards, restrictions, contradictions and fear we place on young black girls in terms sexuality and what it means to be a woman to "Human, Not Black" and the tendency of others, particularly in white spaces, to blatantly disregard who we are as Black women when it suits them and their dissatisfaction with labeling us as who we are because we do not fit into the mold of what a black person or woman should be, she captures her own story in a way that not only makes you long to hear more of her story, but also take an introspective look into your own life, experiences and identity. I felt challenged to take a look at the ways that I myself participate in the most passive of microaggressions against my mind, my body and the experiences of those around. I couldn't identify with every experience she shared, but that lent itself to the beauty of this book. Everyone has a different story to tell and no one's experience is the same. Isn't that what acknowledging and understanding intersectionality is designed to teach us in the first place?