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Introduction - Chapter 1

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color. Seal Press, 2021.

· This book is Rodriguez’s way of democratizing knowledge.

· Accessibility is about power, gatekeeping is founded on the protection of power.

· Rodriguez believes that information that can change lives should never be hoarded.

· This book is a map and it can lead to many destinations – internally, interpersonally, and beyond.

· This book encourages its readers to heal, laugh, be challenged, and lead them back to themselves.

· In the book, Rodriguez will utilize the word Latinx to speak about her communities; she will not use the words Hispanic or the gendered word Latino.

· She will not italicize Spanish, which is her first language, as to do so would denote it as foreign...

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