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willaful

Go with the Flow | Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann

The look on her face...so relatable.

lil1inblue This part reminded me too much of my first cycle. 😂 😲 12h

willaful @lil1inblue yup! 10h

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

Hello #SheSaid.

Sorry for the day late post…I hope you had a good Easter if you celebrate.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa If you are Catholic, so sorry for your loss. I am not Catholic, but even I appreciated quite a lot of Pope Francis‘s influence. 5d

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vlwelser I'm really enjoying this one. I love her read on Michelle Obama's hairstyle and the possible message she was sending. 4d

Hooked_on_books I really liked the first essay this week. But then, just about anything starting with Michelle Obama tends to be good. I thought the second essay was also good but have an issue with what essentially sounded to me like blaming liberal white women for Trump‘s 2016 election win. There are so many voting blocks you can look at to see the differences from 2012 to 2016 that contributed to that election result. 🔽 4d

Hooked_on_books Yes, far too many white women voted for that horrific man, which is frankly why I think a lot of liberal white women participated in the Women‘s March—horror over him being in office. My mother in law is a hard core conservative (though not a Trump fan), and there would have been no way to get her to vote for Hillary. (I don‘t know how she voted.) So to simply say it‘s because we didn‘t get our group voting right doesn‘t hold water. 4d

staci.reads I ended up having to settle for audio again, so I'm struggling to add to the comments with anything specific about the chapters, but I am really enjoying this one. I feel like this book is a "shut up and listen" experience. I am learning so much. 3d

staci.reads @vlwelser I loved her insight on that as well. I really want to believe her interpretation of the inauguration day hair is accurate! 3d

staci.reads @Hooked_on_books That part was hard for me to hear as well. I respect her for sharing her feelings about the Women's March. I guess, though, I'd like to ask her what kind of protest white women who didn't vote for the orange man could have done that would have felt appropriate to her. I don't mean that in a snarky way. I am truly curious. 3d

Hooked_on_books @staci.reads I‘d like to know that, too. I know a lot of us white women are devastated and embarrassed at so many white women voting for him. Plus, she also mentioned earlier that we‘re all stronger together, which I completely agree with. I do fully understand her frustration with the majority of white women. 3d

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Balibee146

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All | Laura Bates

A challenging but important read covering how the red pill / incel movements pervade (more than we realise) for the harm of all people and their intersection with white supremacy.

TrishB I couldn‘t get through this one as it was so awful! Well done. 5d

Balibee146 @trishb I think she is excellent at describing all the layers feeding into these subcultures in accessible language, which is helping. It is hard to stomach though for sure.... Half a chapter a day is about all I can take at a time.... 5d

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AnneCecilie

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

The video for “Formation” pays homage to post-Katarina New Orleans and ends with Bey using the weight of her body to sink a New Orleans police cruiser into the flood‘s waters. Putting middle fingers up to the state that incarcerates the most people per capita anywhere on the globe, and including an image of a Black boy dancing for his life while staring down a line of a police in riot gear, is a bold fuck-you to the forces that seek to snuff out

AnneCecilie Black lives. 5d

AnneCecilie As a white European, I‘m beginning to realize that there‘s a lot about Beyoncé that I don‘t pick up. I‘m glad that Cooper is making me aware of it #SheSaid (edited) 5d

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Jen2

All About Love: New Visions | bell hooks

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Inspiring

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Jen2

A Burst of Light: Essays | Audre Lorde

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Very good.

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lil1inblue

Go with the Flow | Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann

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I found this graphic novel via NYPL's Teen Banned Book Club. It is inspiring, funny, heart-warming, and utterly delightful. It's an amazing resource, as well. Books like this need to exist.

You can watch NYPL's online event with the authors here: https://www.youtube.com/live/WpNLG725Uss?si=hLu7F29lGv_Cem01

And the book club link is: https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/freedom-to-read/teen-book-club

##withthebanned

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KathyWheeler

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Brittney Cooper

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I really liked the way Cooper mixes the political and personal in this book. As a white woman, she made me rethink some encounters I had in my 20s; that was interesting. I loved her section about theology for grown women. Cooper also does an excellent job narrating the audiobook; I may go back and read it in print. #SheSaid #audiowalk

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