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

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This author is very thoughtful and her perspective is interesting. I mostly listened to this on audio but I had a print copy as well.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

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AnneCecilie

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

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I loved how Cooper mixed the personal, statistics/ facts and using famous people to highlight her points. She uses Beyoncé, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. The analysis of one of Beyoncé‘s songs was eye opening and the analysis of Michelle Obama‘s hair on Trump‘s inauguration just the same.

She also looks at how it is to be the only Black in the room, being raised by a single mother and the importance of sisterhood

#SheSaid

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AnneCecilie

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land | Rebecca Nagle

#BookReport

I finished the poetry collection Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and Eloquent Rage #SheSaid

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued By the Fire We Carry, A Thousand Threads and Our Share of Night

I‘ve started the poetry collection Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

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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.

Join us in the comments as you finish this section

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser @SamAnne @Julsmarshall @arlenefinnigan @CoffeeK8. @MallenNC @DebinHawaii @Currey @Augustdana @Suet624 @Singout @mhillis @megnews @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @staci.reads @AllDebooks @psalva @Amor4Libros @DGRachel @Smrloomis ⤵️ 6d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @BookBosomed1 @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 @Christine If anyone would like added or removed from the tag list, please let me know! 😉 6d

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. 6d

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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. 5d

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. 🔽 5d

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. 5d

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. 4d

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! 4d

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. 4d

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. 4d

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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. 6d

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) 6d

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AnneCecilie

Nancy Drew 18: Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion | Carolyn Keene

#BookReport

Finished:
📚 There‘s a Monster behind the Door
📚 What the Wild Sea can Be
📚 Heartstone #ShardlakeBR

Read:
📚 The Moss Covered Manson #NancyDrewBR
📚 Rommet i jorden (The Room in the Ground)
📚 Spuria
📚 The Peepshow
📚 I Who Have Never Known Men

Current reads:
📚 The yearlong reads on the right
🎧 By the Fire We Carry
📚 Eloquent Rage #SheSaid
📚 A Thousand Threads
📚 Betongblomst (Concrete Flower

AnneCecilie #WeeklyForecast: Continue my current reads and start Our Share of Night 7d

kspenmoll Quite a diversified list! ❤️ 7d

AnneCecilie @kspenmoll Sometimes I think that‘s a problem for me, that there‘s so many books that looks interesting and it would be easier if I just liked certain kinds of books 7d

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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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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

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

Hello #SheSaid!

Some good essays this week, I could not help thinking about some of the current US political/religious melding that is happening currently. See you all in the comments as you finish this section!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I am not black, so I do not want to overstep here, but boy could I relate this week. My great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother all got married and had children young. And I was determined not to fall into that pattern….even as my younger cousins got married & got pregnant (not all in that order)…I was like, nope, not going there until I graduate from college. And then it‘s like…wait, where are the guys, the good ones are married already 🤣 2w

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ overall great essays this week, both on patriarchy/empire/military control and religion thoughts bleeding over into control, and always abstinence and sex=bad, never birth control/ knowledge and accessibility=good. Those really stuck out to me this week as the US is going through a hyper-toxic masculinity period where Dad knows all because he is an awesome multi-dimensional chess player and if you do not understand you are dumb.⤵️ 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ let‘s go back to empire and take a few countries (they want us to, really they are just asking for it), and tariff everyone even if it upsets the global economic order we were the head of, because “sounds” tough 🙄 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I will apologize to those of you in other countries having to put up with our current US “policy”. 2w

Bookwormjillk My library copy came in this week. I‘ll try to catch up. 2w

AllDebooks Love this author and her essays 2w

vlwelser I'm really enjoying this author. I loved the story about her grandmother. I'm also one of those people that had stuff to do and never thought about finding a partner. But I had no intention of settling in order to get children that I maybe also didn't really want. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser Same…somehow I just thought, like her, that there were guys doing the same, and would be good men at the end of it. But I live in a very “red” area and (I say this sarcastically, but with some truth), well-educated women who have opinions are not really “IN” at the moment 😂 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ..honestly finding other people that read books are difficult to find sometimes….so yay for Litsy. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser Now to get a little more serious, I think America is going through a phase where expertise in anything is not appreciated and valued. A bit of a “dark ages” here and now I see the beginning of a brain drain starting as academics and knowledge are being devalued and those that can, moving themselves where there will be research funding & opportunities. 🤷‍♀️ 2w

vlwelser I hope we just need to tuck in and wait this out. But that's not exactly how change happens. I am also glad to have found a lot of really well educated women on the internet. But I live in a really blue state so this behavior is more normal here. 2w

Hooked_on_books I enjoyed this week‘s essays. I did have some thoughts about her wanting the US government to intervene with Boko Haram. Of course I wanted those girls rescued, but I have to ask where and how we should intervene in other sovereign nations. It‘s a fraught thing. Leaning on a government to push them to get a rescue to happen is one thing, but intervening militarily is technically an act of war. So I can‘t agree with her about using our military 🔽 2w

Hooked_on_books thought I certainly was horrified and wanted to see those girls rescued. I also loved her grandma! What a hoot! I am not religious but was raised Catholic and completely agree with her about how damaging the teaching about sexuality to girls is in many Christian faiths. It leads to a lot of disordered thoughts later and isn‘t good. 2w

Hooked_on_books @Riveted_Reader_Melissa You mention the brain drain and knowledge being devalued, and I have to say that‘s part of what drove me out of my profession. I was living in a blue/purple area and even so, more and more people would look at what I said as a physician with skepticism. How can you get informed consent from people who refuse to be informed? It felt like a constant fight and it was exhausting. And I‘m not alone, which is bad. 2w

AnneCecilie I love how she mixes the personal with facts. I‘m not black either, but how she talks about mothers and grandmothers makes it more relatable, even if I have completely different relationships with mine. 2w

Hooked_on_books I forgot to say how it struck me that she‘s anti-patriarchy (as we all should be), but in the final essay for today mentions wanting black men to step up to protect black women, which is a patriarchal attitude. I would have liked to see her unpack that conflict—that would have been really interesting. 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Hooked_on_books have you read the

Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

Riveted_Reader_Melissa It‘s a few years old now, but a lot of what it talked about is fermenting and now running things. I can see it in things like Signal-gate. They just think they know better, and anyone else that is complaining are sticklers/crazy, 🤷‍♀️. They had a “doctor” on who was meeting with unvaccinated people for Measles info (all the not-vaccinate alternatives they are recommending), while he actively had the measles. 🙄 (edited) 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Hooked_on_books I thought that was interesting too, but I think for me it boiled down to they expect women to stand up for and protest for them, but it is not reciprocated because they think women should still be quiet/not heard, or black women are loud, so ok, or as she mentioned, she is large so should be able to take care of herself. 🤷‍♀️. Lots of intersections in that discussion. Might be a deeper one too, not just the socialization part ⤵️ 2w

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ You mentioned, that men should protect women. But also one about racism…loud/angry black men more likely to be handled violently by police for example, than loud/angry black women, so subconsciously let them be the angry front face. But I think no matter what angle we look at it, everyone needs to stand up for everyone else more, not just when it‘s knocking on their individual door. (edited) 2w

Hooked_on_books Absolutely yes, we should all be supporting and looking out for one another more. We have to stop looking at people as “us” or “them” and look at every individual as a human being. And I absolutely need to read that book! I can‘t believe I haven‘t heard of it and it looks incredibly satisfying. 2w

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AnneCecilie

Mystery of the Moss-covered Mansion ; The Hidden Staircase | Carolyn Keene

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I‘m officially on Easter break and is not returning to work until Tuesday 22nd and my main goal is to read

I want to continue with the yearlong reads

I want to continue with the buddy reads: Eloquent Rage #SheSaid and Heartstone #ShardlakeBR

I want to finish There‘s a Monster behind the Door, What to Wild See Can Be and Betongblomst

I want to read the tagged, and start The Peepshow and Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

AnneCecilie Then I like to see how many of the others I can get to 2w

AnneCecilie Edit: I forgot that I will continue listening to By The Fire We Carry 2w

Suet624 👏 👏 👏 2w

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KathyWheeler

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

I‘m finally caught up on this for #SheSaid. I particularly liked the section on theology for grown women. The temperatures were great today, with a wonderful breeze. I‘m going to hate it when it starts getting hot and muggy again. #audiowalk

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