How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

by Crystal Marie Fleming

A brilliant, affirming, clear, and concise primer on antiracism.

Notes: I wouldn’t equate being bullied for wearing ‘ridiculous’ Pentecostal garb with Islamophobic aggression, nor imply that headscarves represent nothing but religious oppression. Crystal also seems to have a grudge against the idea of an immigrant work ethic … Read more

The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of the World’s Food Supply

by Marie-Monique Robin

It’s understandably a challenge to distil a colossal amount of research into a flowing document. Also the author’s Frenchness seeps through in regular reminders, including when she cannot refrain from commenting on how well colonised the tongues are of the Vietnamese doctors and scientists she interviews.

It is … Read more

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