![]() This guide will explore identity, intersectionality, and the challenges and strengths of “piecing” oneself together.Įxploring identity and intersectionality means talking about class, race, and gender. ![]() Jade asks, “I wonder if there’s ever a way for a girl like me to feel whole.” That is a question readers should be asking about themselves and asking about their fellow students. This guide seeks to explore how Jade in the acclaimed young adult novel Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson (Bloomsbury) is “shattered into a million pieces” and how she and her community stitch her back together each day. I wonder if there’s ever a way for a girl like me to feel whole. The shattering.Īnd this makes me wonder if a black girl’s life is only about being stitched together and coming undone, being stitched together and coming undone. That I can and will do more, be more.īut when I leave? It happens again. Listening to these mentors, I feel like I can prove the negative stereotypes about girls like me wrong. By the time I get home I feel like my soul has been shattered into a million pieces. Sometimes it feels like I leave home a whole person, sent off with kisses from Mom, who is hanging her every hope on my future. ![]() PIECING ME TOGETHER: Intersectionality Discussion Guideīest Users:Educators, Librarians, Community Groups, Book Clubs, Home Learning ![]()
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