Books
A New Day: Can Hollywood and Publishing Maintain the Momentum of #AsianAugust?
Helen Hoang, Lillian Li, and R.O. Kwon offer insight into why Hollywood and the publishing industry are finally beginning to wake up.
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Ancestral Roots: Bernice L. McFadden Sings An Enslaved Black Woman’s Song
After the darkness, there’s light.
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Brutal Entertainment: “Sadie” Turns True Crime Upside Down
Not many people get to build a platform on writing the most brittle girls imaginable.
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Unapologetically Free: Charlene Carruthers Gives Us A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
If we see our work through a Black Queer Feminist Lens, we can actually move toward and be engaged in that work of collective liberation.
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Naming Fears: Vivek Shraya on Vulnerability as a Tool for Transformation
What if saying “I’m afraid” was just as much of a statement of resilience as “I’m not afraid?”
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Smashing Barriers: Mara Altman and Virgie Tovar On Body Acceptance, Fatphobia, and Imagining a New World for Women
Diet culture is just the newest form of women’s subjugation.
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2018 Was the Summer of the Asian Beach Read
Having access to the “beach read” label feels like acceptance—the ability to reach audiences who might see our work as a source of pleasure instead of education.
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Girl on a Sexist Bandwagon: The Consequences of Publishing’s “Gone Girl” Craze
In these books, certain women are allowed to be messy, make mistakes, and commit heinous crimes while also being presented as anti-heroines who are simply ensnared in systems larger than themselves.
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Moving Past Toxicity: Fighting for a New Vision of Masculinity
What is the masculinity that exists beyond patriarchy?
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