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sjbshannon's review
4.0
A valuable book, but one of the essays is unfortunately dated and features some transphobia.
The personal essays in this book address many issues that are not addressed in other, similar feminist anthologies.
The personal essays in this book address many issues that are not addressed in other, similar feminist anthologies.
tlaynejones's review against another edition
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5.0
kpeninger's review against another edition
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4.0
I read this for an upcoming work event. It was interesting to read an anthology that in many ways is a successor to This Bridge Called My Back. The essays were all very well-done. I did think it would have benefited from at least one more essay by a Jew of Color, though, and the disability rep was really lacking. While many of the essays examined intersections in their identities, I was surprised that there wasn't much mentioned about how disability plays into feminist critiques and how it intersects with race. Maybe for a third edition the editors can add some voices along those lines. Still a very good anthology and would recommend to folks.
xfilesgirliex's review
5.0
a definite must read. this will remain on my shelf forever. please read this!
emiliasuzanne's review against another edition
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5.0
kmyerscoffman's review against another edition
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5.0
stevia333k's review against another edition
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5.0
one of the things this book repeatedly says is that women's studies courses tend to be white & there's a big problem of white people not being able to handle their guilt or not be able to pay attention to non-white experiences. so frankly, i'm thankful to have picked up this audiobook so that i wouldn't be taking up time from women of color. it gave me insight into my personal complicity & personal problems.
10%: The essay about chosen family was such a mood, and the combo of 9/11 & 2010's activism is a lovely combo because that covers most of my time in the school to prison pipeline
17%: This part about the patriarch preying upon vulnerability woc, reminds me of my own family, though we're white instead
19%: Holy shit "resisting sterilization and embracing trans motherhood" is explaining an omen an aunt of mine received about what would happen if I medically transitioned. Basically it has to do with a lack of support for infertility trauma
27%: That gentrification series "Marx in the house" would probably go good with the gentrification chapter "what happens when your hood is the last stop on the white flight express"
The HIV and me chapter is probably helpful too. Basically consider linguistic inclusivity as another method of praxis
46%: Marianismo is a pain in the ass!
52%: The part about abortion doulas sometimes being the only nonjudgmental person in people's lives is making me want to sob. there's a part of a book from "the body keeps the score" where the doctor person says that when we have crappy people in our lives we'll cling onto people who make us feel safe as much as possible. to keep my description of guilt brief, marry or die combined with queerphobia & ableism was abuse we shouldn't have been put through.
68%: I'm finding a lot of help from these 3 chapters: migrant organizing, ladies only, our hermanitas' heroes.
- the street harassment & molestation chapters, they explain a lot, and while my instinct is to say kill amatonormativity, that chapter really calls out that what that instinct is referring to is only 1 style is only 1 role & that we don't have to conform to the standards oppressive systems set up for us.
- the call out chapter pointing out that the non-profit complex was developed to thawrt mass movements was a big reveal for me. like i've been starting to pick up on & even have on my reading list books about how social work is tied to policing/police, but like mashallah, omfg that explains so much hell on earth & i need to know more!!!
- mo'nique is beautiful, omg this chapter on fatphobia made me want to sob. also the eating disorders, big mood.
10%: The essay about chosen family was such a mood, and the combo of 9/11 & 2010's activism is a lovely combo because that covers most of my time in the school to prison pipeline
17%: This part about the patriarch preying upon vulnerability woc, reminds me of my own family, though we're white instead
19%: Holy shit "resisting sterilization and embracing trans motherhood" is explaining an omen an aunt of mine received about what would happen if I medically transitioned. Basically it has to do with a lack of support for infertility trauma
27%: That gentrification series "Marx in the house" would probably go good with the gentrification chapter "what happens when your hood is the last stop on the white flight express"
The HIV and me chapter is probably helpful too. Basically consider linguistic inclusivity as another method of praxis
46%: Marianismo is a pain in the ass!
52%: The part about abortion doulas sometimes being the only nonjudgmental person in people's lives is making me want to sob. there's a part of a book from "the body keeps the score" where the doctor person says that when we have crappy people in our lives we'll cling onto people who make us feel safe as much as possible. to keep my description of guilt brief, marry or die combined with queerphobia & ableism was abuse we shouldn't have been put through.
68%: I'm finding a lot of help from these 3 chapters: migrant organizing, ladies only, our hermanitas' heroes.
- the street harassment & molestation chapters, they explain a lot, and while my instinct is to say kill amatonormativity, that chapter really calls out that what that instinct is referring to is only 1 style is only 1 role & that we don't have to conform to the standards oppressive systems set up for us.
- the call out chapter pointing out that the non-profit complex was developed to thawrt mass movements was a big reveal for me. like i've been starting to pick up on & even have on my reading list books about how social work is tied to policing/police, but like mashallah, omfg that explains so much hell on earth & i need to know more!!!
- mo'nique is beautiful, omg this chapter on fatphobia made me want to sob. also the eating disorders, big mood.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Abortion, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Deportation, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Fatphobia
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