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Barbara Jane Reyes’s Dear Brown Girl is a fierce, confrontational prose poem about racism, tokenism, cultural appropriation, exclusion, internalised oppression and the emotional exhaustion produced by repeatedly seeking acceptance in spaces that do not genuinely recognise one’s humanity. Addressed directly to a “brown girl”, the piece speaks with the urgency of advice, warning and solidarity. The speaker assumes that the addressee has repeatedly entered spaces in which she has been present but n...