For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts is a witness statement of the systemic oppression that Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez experienced as a Latina immigrant in the U.S.

Abuse, sexism, and racism are all-too-commonly combined experiences for girls and women of color.

Being devalued and discounted by her family, culture, and society told Nicaraguan immigrant Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez that she wasn't worth an education, but she got one anyway.

Mojica Rodríguez was continually told that she didn't belong in academic settings.

This bias came from Latino culture's restrictions on what women could be and systemic class and racial oppression from white America.

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color was written to demystify and democratize academic theory for women of color who don't have access to it.

The book is Mojica Rodríguez's story, told through the social theories of colonialism, systemic oppression, white privilege, and patriarchy that she fought hard to learn at prestigious universities, and how to survive them as a brown girl.