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Tarana Burke and Dr Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artists, academics and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.

Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story.

The word "shanda" is defined as shame or disgrace in Yiddish. This book, Shanda, tells the story of three generations of complicated, intense twentieth-century Jews for whom the desire to fit in and the fear of public humiliation either drove their aspirations or crushed their spirit. In her deeply engaging, astonishingly candid memoir, author and activist Letty Cottin Pogrebin exposes the fiercely-guarded lies and intricate cover-ups woven by dozens of members of her extended family.

This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history. Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil is a portrait of our time, an urgent call to action, and a moving testament to the undying bond between mothers and sons.

فتاة نشأت بين ثقافتين مختلفتين تماما، والدها مصري وأمها يابانية, لكنها رغم ذلك حافظت على هويتها لتقدم لنا مزيجا مدهشا لفتاة مسلمة تحاول الاحتفاظ بجوهر دينها رغم حداثتها الظاهرة، سارة رياض تقدم لنا في هذا الكتاب رحلة ثقافية ومعرفية في أروقة نظرتها الفلسفية لقضايا اجتماعية ودينية تخشى أي فتاة في عمرها مجرد التفكير فيها، ورغم أن الكلام ليس عيبا ولا حراما بالنسبة لها إلا أنه سيكون في نظر البعض عيبا بينما في نظر البعض سيكون حراما مطلقا.