Books
Red Handed: Kristen R. Ghodsee on Sex and Socialism
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism highlights the stories of feminists and socialists who worked to make women’s lives better under socialism, while pointing to ways we can adapt their lessons for the future.
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Dear Lane: “How To Be Alone” is Vulnerable, Funny, and Profoundly Healing
How To Be Alone gave me closure for trauma.
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Lift Every Voice: “Shout Your Abortion” Is Changing the Conversation
In 2015, Amelia Bonow shared her abortion story on her Facebook page.
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Join the Club: Gabrielle Moss on the Golden Age of YA Literature
Gabrielle Moss takes us on a nostalgic and hilarious tour through teen bookshelves and the Golden Age of YA literature.
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Eloquent Rage: How Brittney Cooper Created a Black Feminist Manifesto
When Dr. Brittney Cooper speaks, the world stops to listen.
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Naming the Problem: Rebecca Solnit on Activism, Outrage, and a Way Forward
If there’s less violence against women, we have less to be angry about.
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Inventing Adulthood : Four Novels Reveal the Magic of Queer Self-Actualization
What does it mean to come of age as a 20-something queer person with no money, no resources, and no illusions about respectability?
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BitchReads: 15 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read This Fall
In tumultuous political and social times, I turn to nonfiction books.
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Et Tu, Brutes: Donna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics.
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