Bad feminist book

If you follow Roxane Gay on Twitter, you probably already love her as much as I do. She’s forthright, unabashed, and gives voice to the best and worst of the little voices inside our heads. So, I picked up Bad Feminist – her 2014 essay collection – fully expecting to love it. After all, if she could cram so much into 280 characters, surely this book would be brimming with brilliance...

This is an absolute must read for feminism books

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In her essay “Bad Feminist: Take One” from the collection Bad Feminist , Roxane Gay discusses the pressures facing women to be “good,” saying: Good women are charming, polite, and unobtrusive. … Good women are modest, chaste, pious, submissive.…

Meg Keene, APW Executive Editor A few weeks ago, we got this question in a Happy Hour: I’ve never had a women’s studies class, or known any feminists, but I’d really like to educate myself on feminism… What books do you wise women recommend? I was all in. Feminism is complex and multi-faceted, and the best Read more...

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A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people's, to build a more just world Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion's sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so "woke"? If so, you might be a feminist killjoy--and this handbook is for you. In this book, feminist theorist Sara Ahmed shows how killing joy can be a radical world-making project…

August 5 marks the one-year anniversary of the publishing of Bad Feminist, which means that for the last 365 days, readers have been inspired, challenged, motivated, and validated by Roxane Gay's words of wisdom. Her essay collection gets to the…