From one from the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated assortment 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 of being a black woman today-perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists.

Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she about This Will End up being My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Dark, Female, and Feminist in (Light) America has already established herself while an insightful, brutally honest article writer who isn’t afraid of tackling challenging, controversial subjects. IN THIS PARTICULAR Will Become My Undoing, she assumes perhaps one of the most provocative modern topics: What does it mean to “become”-to live as, to exist as-a black girl today? This is a book about black women, but it’s necessary reading for those Americans.

Doubly disenfranchised simply by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, dark women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are seldom acknowledged inside our country’s larger discussion approximately inequality. WITH THIS Will Become My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and at the mercy of expose the interpersonal, cultural, and traditional story of black feminine oppression that affects the black community aswell as the white, male-dominated world 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 guys say they don’t really “observe color”; being truly a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed gal” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or handicapped black ladies in the context from the “Black Lady Magic” movement, Jerkins is convincing and revelatory.