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• Tías and Primas

  on Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us

  Mojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas, 1985-

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  Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tías and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If You Can't Take the Heat

  Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

  DeRuiter, Geraldine,

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  When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him, he had the gall to include a recipe—for cinnamon rolls, of all things. Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Sorry for My Loss

  An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

  Little, Rebecca (Freelance writer),

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  A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America. I'm Sorry for My Loss delves into the abyss of pregnancy loss, a topic that is misunderstood and full of guilt and shame, written with emotional resonance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Talkin' Up to the White Woman

  Indigenous Women and Feminism

  Moreton-Robinson, Aileen,

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  A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface The twentieth anniversary of the original publication of this influential and prescient work is commemorated with a new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hood Feminism

  Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot

  Kendall, Mikki,

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  A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

  One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

  MacNicol, Glynnis, 1974-

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  After New York City emptied out in March 2020, Glynnis MacNicol, aged forty-six, unmarried with no children, spent sixteen months alone in her tiny Manhattan apartment. The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Movement

  How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973

  Bingham, Clara,

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  For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Myth of Making It

  a Workplace Reckoning

  Mukhopadhyay, Samhita,

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  We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the story of her personal workplace reckoning and argues for collective responsibility to reimagine work as we know it.

• A Burst of Light

  and Other Essays

  Lorde, Audre,

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  A great American theorist of race, sexuality, gender, living, and dying, poet and activist Audre Lorde (1934–1992) created a body of work that was ahead of its time in its embrace of intersectionality. Her powerful collection of essays is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Body Is Not An Apology

  the Power of Radical Self-love

  Taylor, Sonya Renee,

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  Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies. The Body Is Not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abortion

  Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

  Valenti, Jessica,

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  Abortion gives voice to women’s frustration and outrage in a moment when they’re fed up with being talked over and diminished. And in an election year when abortion is dominating the national conversation, Valenti provides the language,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Fat Black Girl

  Notes From a Trap Feminist

  Bowen, Sesali,

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  Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Sesali Bowen learned early on how to hustle, stay on her toes, and champion other Black women and femmes as she navigated Blackness, queerness, fatness, friendship, poverty, sex work, and self-love.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Refuse to Be Silent

  Women's Voices on Justice for Black Men

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  The women have something to say. Are you listening? In this powerful and needed collection, editor Angela P. Dodson brings together the voices of more than thirty-five accomplished women writers on the topic of violence and injustice…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Menopause Manifesto

  Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism

  Gunter, Jen,

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  The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women’s bodies, and it’s no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This American Ex-wife

  How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

  Lenz, Lyz,

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  Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women—women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We’ve all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine. Lyz Lenz…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Honest Woman

  a Memoir of Love and Sex Work

  Shane, Charlotte (Author),

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  In her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women’s studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pleasure Activism

  the Politics of Feeling Good

  brown, adrienne m.,

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  How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Tears Brown Scars

  How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

  Hamad, Ruby,

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  In this explosive book of history and cultural criticism reveals how white feminism has been used as a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women, and women of color. Taking us from the slave era,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Soul of a Woman

  on Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches

  Allende, Isabel,

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  As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the second wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, Allende for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote “with a knife between our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thick

  and Other Essays

  Cottom, Tressie McMillan,

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  In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed—is unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I…Read moreRead more of this annotation