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miss_cheevious's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
miajakobsen's review
5.0
I think that solidarity always implies a kind of mutuality... I think we share our experiences. Just as I think the development of Black feminism and women-of-colour feminisms can offer ideas, experiences, analyses to Palestinians, so can Black feminisms and women-of-colour feminisms learn from the struggle of the Palestinian people and Palestinian feminists.
Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect. What has kept me going has been the development of new modes of community. I don’t know whether I would have survived had not movements survived, had not communities of resistance, communities of struggle. So whatever I’m doing I always feel myself directly connected to those communities... we have to encourage that sense of community particularly at a time when neoliberalism attempts to force people to think of themselves only in individual terms and not in collective terms. It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
Angela Davis is brilliant. A must read.
scoobierubie's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
This is the first nonfiction book I’m reviewing, so it feels a little strange giving it a star rating? But I want to stay as consistent as I can! That being said— I thought that this book, while short, was deeply informative and covered an array of topics with strong arguments for their connective tissue. I think the only reason this, for me, is a 4.25 and not higher, is that I found the interviews to be slightly repetitive? It makes sense, they were conversations happening years apart, but as a reader just going over the transcriptions it felt as though the book started by reiterating a lot of the same points. But they were important points! Some are just slightly more dated? But that has less to do with the quality of the work and more just to do with time passing.
ashtreene's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
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fast-paced
5.0
irenelfeng's review against another edition
3.0
Because it's a collection of speeches / interviews, the ideas and facts are often repetitive. But the ideas and facts themselves (though some are outdated, like G4S being the 3rd largest private corporation in terms of employees in the world) make this a must-read.