They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us

by Prachi Gupta

The myth forces our minds to forget that which our bodies cannot: that belonging is always conditional.

Only a couple pages into this book...wow

An Indian woman’s act of political protest was rewritten as hysteria, her sense of duty perceived as desire. In this construct, an Indian woman’s feelings and expressions were never her own; she experienced her womanhood as pathology.

In our family, we learned to love one another for how well we were able to conform to the story they wrote for us—not as who we really are.

Sorry I'm crying now