by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser
★★½
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All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger, and the Female Body
by Dani Burlisson (Editor)
★★★½
No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
by Keturah Kendrick
For essays about rejecting motherhood and Christianity and about living abroad, this collection was surprisingly unresonating. There’s also an unnecessary and specific march of ‘this is what tools of the patriarchy would say’. Keturah confronts cultural confines except for those that work for her, with a blind spot … Read more
Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
★★★½
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life
by Ali Wong
★★★★
Surviving the City
(Surviving the City #1)
by Tasha Spillett, Natasha Donovan (Illustrations)
★★★½
From the Ashes
by Jesse Thistle
Jesse’s writing is magnetic and his story’s intense. Facing racism and bullying and dropping out of school in grief is the faint overlap I’ve lived. I thought about when a friend from Turkey told me that he was never bullied growing up—because the school system was so oppressive … Read more
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
by Anneliese A. Singh
★★★
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
by Samra Habib
★★★½
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine
by Jennifer Gunter
★★★★
Sula
by Toni Morrison
★★★½
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
by Zahra Hankir (Editor)
★★★★½
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
While this work is entwined with numbing repetition, Kendi brings forward vital ideas in defining and repositioning antiracist consciousness.
Going To Meet The Man
by James Baldwin
★★★★
Homes: A Refugee Story
by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
★★★★½
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
by Nikesh Shukla (Editor)
★★★★
Soufi, mon amour
by Elif Shafak
★★★½
Another Brooklyn
by Jacqueline Woodson
★★★★
Searching for Sylvie Lee
by Jean Kwok
The parts I appreciated touch on the experiences of children and grandchildren of immigrants in Europe. The socialisation of dehumanisation—with a quick sampling in racist children’s songs, the German version of rock-paper-scissors (if you point it out to them they say, ‘What? That’s what Chinese sounds like’), television … Read more
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
by James Baldwin
★★★★