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Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Charlene Carruthers
4.25 AVERAGE
270 reviews for:
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Charlene Carruthers
4.25 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
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medium-paced
challenging
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If you want to write a memoir…write a memoir.
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This book dives into collective organizing, written from a place of love and commitment to being in community. Great book to read in combination with Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
My rating isn't of the subject matter (most of which I agree with). I just didn't find the writing particularly effective as either an educational tool (there is a ton of assumed prior knowledge) or as a call to arms.
There are parts of this book I find necessary reading for those in the community organizing, social work, and political movement arenas. The way the author describes and breaks down the meaning of transformative justice is valuable. My lower rating is for some of the blatant hypocrisy the author skims over. Carruthers goes into great detail about how important it is for those within a community to be the voice of a community and then completely dismisses any Jewish perspective domestically and abroad. She describes the horrors she witnessed while spending time in Palestinian land and paints this picture of Jews as white colonizers painting them all under one broad swath. Later in the book she describes her anger when others do the same thing with Black women and the assumption they are one large monolith. I wish the author took time to speak with Jewish people both in Israel and here in the US before casting us out from her movement ideals.
I thought this book provided some great tools and frameworks for how to view & approach equity movements. The “five questions” we should be asking ourselves with regard to these movements we’re especially insightful!