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I wasn’t the intended audience for this book. I think this is aimed for preteens and teenagers or people who have never heard of feminism. I should’ve known when I saw the GirlUp logo on the front cover but kept going because I have to finish books I start. I didn’t really enjoy this book at all but I think it was a good idea - feminism should be discussed as much and as early as possible so teens can feel more empowered and more understanding of their own feelings and experiences as well as those of people from other walks of life. It’s good to commiserate and compare and talk about things that we might otherwise internalize. However, I think this book could have done a much better job of explaining these things and giving some more experienced voices a turn. For example, there are full page spreads throughout the book of quotes pulled from the previous page/paragraph. I thought that was such a distracting waste of space that could’ve been better used to highlight quotes from famous feminists or better explanations of what feminism actually is. Because the writers of this collection do not all have a good grasp of it, or the prompt they were given was way too vague - they were also definitely not professional writers. The length of each piece also varied from not even one sentence to maybe 5/6 pages with most of them being only 1 or 2 pages. That really bothered me (especially the random one sentence ones) since they seemed so scatter-brained and random. Idk, it was just disappointing since I’m a fan of some of the actresses who contributed and this didn’t seem worth it at all.