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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
I enjoyed and would recommend the first piece in this work, Silence is Broken, but otherwise this collection was.... just not for me.
informative
informative
reflective
fast-paced
This book made me laugh, cry, rage, and everything in between. Solnit it has a remarkable ability to put words to the rumbling, previously unnamed discomforts of being a woman. I liked to write down favorite excerpts from books to share with others but found my list of excerpts from “Mother of All Questions” becoming longer than the unquoted sections! This is an excellent read that I will evangelize and read again and again.
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
"This book addresses the rapid social changes of a revitalized feminist movement in North America and around the world that is not merely altering the laws. It's changing our understanding of consent, power, rights, gender, voice, and representation. It is a gorgeously transformative movement led in particular by the young, on campuses, on social media, in the streets, and my admiration for this fearlessly unapologetic new generation of feminists and human rights activists is vast."
"This book is a tour through carnage, a celebration of liberation and solidarity, insight and empathy, and an investigation of the terms and tools with which we might explore all these things."
"This book is a tour through carnage, a celebration of liberation and solidarity, insight and empathy, and an investigation of the terms and tools with which we might explore all these things."
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
The introduction is great. But the way too few mentions of how race and queerness interact with feminism are not fully formed and borderline harmful. The audiobook narrator pronounced latinx "la-tinks". After the majority of the first half of the book focused on sexual assault, it went on to laud two male comedians with well known accusations of sexual harassment/sexual misconduct as open feminists using their platform and maleness to call out other men and praise feminism. Absolutely disgusting and I'm quitting. I feel physically ill. DNF @ 53%
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault