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I think there was a point that was pro women, but it was lost in all the digressions #HailTheBail #BetterBooksAhead

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Starting this #BookSpinBingo read this morning

I thought I was pretty up and up on ways that we women are oppressed, ignored, dismissed, and harassed in the world. I feel like I knew nothing after listening to this book 😭 It was a highly depressing and enlightening listen. I appreciate that this author put all this data together for a really impactful eye-opener. The sound editing of the transitions wasn‘t good in the audiobook; kept chopping off the beginning words of chapters.

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!

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

I had no idea

#SheSaid

Intersectionality, or the idea that we are all integrally formed and multiply impacted by the different ways that systems of white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy affects our lives, was a mostly foreign notion to these young scientists. Intersectional education happens primarily in the kinds of college classrooms that cause conservative politicians to lose their shit on the regular. Intersectionality is considered fluffy, liberal, radical,

Temperatures are back up, but the breeze made my #audiowalk a lovely one. I like that Brittney Cooper is the narrator for her own book; she does a great job. #SheSaid

It has been nearly thirty-eight years since a grown man, drunk on his own sense of entitlement, attempted to murder my mother. According to several years of reports by the Violence Police Center, in this, the second decade of the twenty-first century, eight Black women per week, more than one per day, are murdered, usually with guns, and usually by a Black male they know. More than one thousand women of all races are murdered each year, in similar

#Bookhaul! My husband gave me a Powell‘s gift card for Christmas but then said I couldn‘t use until we moved back (rude!). So now that we‘re back and I finished the taxes yesterday, I made the drive and found some great books. I removed myself from the store when too many things started looking good. 😂 You all know how that is.