nepheletempest 's review for:

The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley

4.0

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A collection of thoughtful, intelligent essays that look at what it means to work as a woman writer, a geek, and a feminist in today's culture, with a particular focus on the Internet and social media. What I particularly enjoyed was that Hurley manages to be angry without ranting, and to point out systemic issues of sexism (and racism and other -isms) in society that we might not ordinarily notice because they are so much a part of our daily narrative since childhood. Plus she does it without making you feel stupid for not seeing it first, which is an accomplishment. There's some minor repetition of explanations, but that's natural in any collection of this kind where many of the essays were previously published elsewhere as stand-alone works. I'd recommend this for anyone who spends a fair amount of time in online circles, even if they don't consider themselves a geek and/or a feminist, and doubly if they do.