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Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson teams up with poet Ellen Hagan in this YA feminist anthem about raising your voice. Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission–they’re sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women’s…
Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism. Review “These essays and poems do more than just revisit the hopes, fears, frustrations, and accomplishments of women of color circa 1981; they also shed light on concerns women continue to face today … There are lines of poetry here sure to…
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching,…
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here…
Well-behaved women seldom make history. So go on — misbehave.
The bell hook quote, “Without justice, there can be no love,” is more relevant now than ever. We must all fight together to bend the moral arc of the universe towards justice.
From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I…
You know the type: the woman who won’t shut up, who’s too brazen, too opinionated—too much. Sometimes she’s the life of the party; other times she’s the center of gossip. She’s the unruly woman, and she’s on eof the most provocative, powerful forms of womanhood today. There have been unruly women for as long as…
Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black women, black communities and black religion. Yet, a text that responds to his efforts from the perspective of these groups does not exist. Review “Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions is the first scholarly text that…
A fat white woman who’s a professional massage therapist and energy healer stands outside her office on a cloudy day. She has long brown and gray hair and is wearing a blue sleeveless plaid top, a necklace with a blue agate stone, and long blue earrings. She has a tattoo on one shoulder. Behind her…
A fat white woman who’s a professional massage therapist and energy healer stands outside her office on a cloudy day. She has long brown and gray hair and is wearing a blue sleeveless plaid top, a necklace with a blue agate stone, and long blue earrings. She has a tattoo on one shoulder. Behind her…
A fat white woman who’s a professional massage therapist and energy healer stands outside her office on a cloudy day. She has long brown and gray hair and is wearing a blue sleeveless plaid top, glasses, a necklace with a blue agate stone, and long blue earrings. She has a tattoo on one shoulder. Behind…
A fat white woman who’s a professional massage therapist and energy healer stands outside her office on a cloudy day. She has long brown and gray hair and is wearing a blue sleeveless plaid top, glasses, a necklace with a blue agate stone, and long blue earrings. She has a tattoo on one shoulder. Behind…
A fat white woman who’s a professional massage therapist and energy healer stands outside her office on a cloudy day. She has long brown and gray hair and is wearing a blue sleeveless plaid top, glasses, a necklace with a blue agate stone, and long blue earrings. She has a tattoo on one shoulder. Behind…
