Brown Girl Like Me
The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women
$24.84
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2023
Summary
You might feel that this fight is too big for you. How on earth can you dismantle so many complex, long-standing systems of oppression? My answer: piece by piece.
Brown Girl Like Me is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity. Jaspreet Kaur unpacks key issues such as the media, the workplace, the home, education, mental health, culture, confiden…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529056358 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529056357 |
| Author: | Jaspreet Kaur |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Bluebird |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Jaspreet voices all the taboos of a brown girl’s existence with truth, honesty and blatancy – Shazia Mirza, comedian and writer
Stunning … this is not just an insightful declaration of empowerment. The book is a toolkit designed to equip women with the confidence they need to navigate an intersectional identity. – DESIblitz
Jaspreet’s writing provides vital access to a beautifully captured experience of growing up in a diverse Britain: this results in a beautifully informative, entertaining and affirming book. – Preet Gill, MP
A rousing manifesto, borne from Kaur’s wide-ranging personal experiences and those of other strong brown women, for taking our identities and power back from society and fully owning our voices and places in the world. Beyond “essential reading”, this book should be “canonical reading.” – Jenny Bhatt, author of the award-winning Each of Us Killers
This is an authentic, bold and and inspiring read. I believe all brown girls and beyond will find a piece of themselves between these pages. The book is informative and important. I would highly recommend it! – Dr Pushpinder Chowdhry, MBE, founder and CEO of The UK Asian Film Festival and Tongues on Fire
A beautiful, knowledgeable voice in the space of figuring out life as a brown woman. – Poorna Bell, author of the award-winning Stronger
Jaspreet Kaur
Jaspreet Kaur, better known by her online handle ‘Behind the Netra’ is an award-winning spoken word artist, history teacher and writer from London. She is passionate about gender issues, taboo subjects and encouraging positive social change in both the Asian community and wider society. Her work tackles issues related to gender discrimination, mental health stigma, the postcolonial immigrant experience, and more. She is a regular on the BBC and Sunday Morning Live and worked with the UN on the ‘HeforShe’ campaign. In 2020 she was awarded the Ben Pimlott Writer in Residency at Birkbeck University as a Research Fellow with the Politics Department and was Artist in Residence with the Spine Festival, led by Apples and Snakes.
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