Books
Storytelling Will Spark the Overthrow: A Review of Lidia Yuknavitch’s “The Book of Joan”
[E]ven if the bodies in The Book of Joan are devoid of gender, they do still cling to sex, love, emotion—they have to, because what else is there to live for when the world’s gone to shit?
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5 Books for Women Who Work that Ivanka Trump Should Read
Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success, is supposed to inspire and empower women, but it’s actually low on actual substance.
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Fat Girls Deserve Fairytales Too: The Rejection of Tropes in “This Is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare”
Gabourey Sidibe’s debut memoir uses personal experiences to tell fat girls that they deserve happiness.
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Living a Feminist Life: Sara Ahmed
Living A Feminist Life explores the controversial figure of the “feminist killjoy” and what it means to call out sexism.
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The Perils of “Privilege”: Why Injustice Can’t Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage
Phoebe Maltz Bovy’s book makes a compelling argument that many of us use accusations of “privilege” to discredit, silence, and tear each other down.
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Iced Out: Blair Braverman on Gender, Trauma, and the Dual Realities of Life in the Arctic
When I began reading Blair Braverman’s memoir, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, I knew I would love it because it chronicled her life as a dog musher and her adventures in the Arctic.
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Nerve Endings Signals New Beginnings for Trans Erotica: Tobi Hill-Meyer Transforms Narratives in Trans Erotic Lit
In Tobi Hill-Meyer’s anthology collection, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, 30 writers set out to create a new way to think about transgender erotica by grounding the genre in how trans people actually have sex.
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Get Out of Gilead: Anti-Blackness in “The Handmaid’s Tale”
The Handmaid’s Tale remains silent on the central feature of American history, anti-blackness, while it takes from the oppression of Black women and applies it indiscriminately to white women.
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The Complexities of Cure Culture : An Interview with Eli Clare on Cure, Diagnosis, and a Crip Writing Practice
I want us to turn our backs on normal. I want us to build and practice a body politics that is as complicated and contradictory as our body-minds. Otherwise we will never find liberation.
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Disability is Not a Deficit and Other Truths in an Ableist World: A Review of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
What would our lives, movements, and communities look like if we moved towards restoration, not cure?
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