Feminism

Let me tell you how I started reading Good and Mad from Rebecca Traister. I was watching Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. I was also on Twitter, because I wanted to experience this momentous hearing with other people, even...

If you’re looking for concrete ideas about everyday activism, read Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. The author breaks down today’s most critical human rights issues, and provides an action plan. Keep...

I started Women & Power: A Manifesto from Mary Beard at breakfast. By dinner, I had finished this short and insightful read. Beard is a classics professor at University of Cambridge. She has a uniquely English perspective, but uses examples from throughout the world....

Kayleen Schaefer explores twenty-first century female friendships with gusto in Text Me When You Get Home. Like a great coffee date with your bestie, it’s the perfect blend of research, analysis, and real-life stories. By the end I was eyeing up that woman in the next...

Kate Harding wrote Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do about It before the #MeToo movement began. Since it was published many more high profile sexual harassment and assault accusations and consequences have occurred. I figured this...