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As powerful as Blackie's words are- I have a problem with such stark contrast between lyrical storytelling & the raw, messy edges of everyday life...
However, I admire that she shares voices of other women, offering #ecofeminism & real-life examples of how we can shape our own journey & bring that wisdom back into your immediate world.
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pickThis was written in 2020. It‘s galling how much worse things have gotten since then and frustrating how many of the online right wing figures referenced feel dated, but have been seamlessly replaced in online spaces by NEW online misogynists (and government officials).
This jumped out at me when I was trying to find an available audio thru my library‘s Libby collection.
pickChristine de Pizan was a feminist before that word even existed. In 1404 she wrote this text, taking all the bad things men say about women (because they still do) and shows them, how and why they're wrong. It's a text based in the Middel Ages, so we find a lot of religious talking and the structure of the book is rooted in the traditions from back then. But I am very impressed by what De Pizan did.
#roll100 @PuddleJumper
…the norm that makes a prison for adults—especially women—out of their own commitment to children they love.
pickI loved Brittney‘s voice! I inhaled this attacking my to do list today. The patriarchy wants to keep all women down and white women breeding. Stand up for your sisters
Next up on audio and bag #4 of pink flower bouquet Lego. White women wearing crosses on tv talking shit are doing feminism a disservice ( BC is not saying this, I am) women who aren‘t feminists are not living their best life
pickAn overview of female artists and their use of the body in art. But beyond that too, what does it mean to be a woman making art in a world that appreciates female bodies as art but not female beings as creators of art? Early in the text Elkin posits that her title reflects both 'art monsters' as noun and an art that 'monsters' as verb. I was so struck by this idea which she ultimately reaches back to in her final section on art as decreation.
pickOof. This book was eye opening and I learned so much from reading it.
Looking at American politics through the lens of women‘s anger and how women have been able to use that anger to shape their future.
Traister spent most of the book examining the 2018 election and it was eerie how much we did not learn from that during the 2024 election.
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