"I desire a new language of belonging. A who-are-you space to gather in with others, rather than the biological 'what' am I. This new language finds the political in the personal, and it requires me to ask who I am and it requires me to ask who I am in the face of any new race-making that might be taking place. Who in me is the slave, who the plantation owner, who the indentured labourer, the bounty keeper, who the collaborator, who the perpetrator, who the victim? Who am I othering as I write, as I speak, as I travel, as I shop? What borders am I erecting, who am I when I don't feel I have enough"?


Timely, empowering, important; "Shame on Me" discusses the theme of race and structural racism through examining piece by piece the bodily features that are most often being used as markers of racial identity and through diving deep both into family history and also into wider historical and literary moments in a pursuit of understanding her hybrid self.

the writer did a beautiful job with this book. the writing was amazing and the fragmentation made it easier to leave the book and come back to it after a while. it was stylistically interesting.

The adored this. I have been reading a lot more books like this but it still sticks out as being unique and wonderful. Loved it.