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The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
5.0
Everything i have ever read from Audre Lorde is automatically a 10/10, this was no different deeply emotional and heartbreaking poetry.
“You create me against your thighs hilly with images moving through our word countries my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me.“
“You create me against your thighs hilly with images moving through our word countries my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me.“
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
5.0
The way Edith Wharton writes about longing is so deeply beautiful (also like she took a peak into my brain), she is so severely under appreciated. The way she manages to pack comments on the status of women, class and the fakeness of upper-class society into a book based around two people yearing i am in awe!
“The longing was with him day and night, an incessant undefinable craving, like the sudden whim of a sick man for food or drink once tasted and long since forgotten. He could not see beyond the craving, or picture what it might lead to, for he was not conscious of any wish to speak to Madame Olenska or to hear her voice. He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the wond might seem less empty.”
“The longing was with him day and night, an incessant undefinable craving, like the sudden whim of a sick man for food or drink once tasted and long since forgotten. He could not see beyond the craving, or picture what it might lead to, for he was not conscious of any wish to speak to Madame Olenska or to hear her voice. He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the wond might seem less empty.”
All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism by Lynne Harne, Elaine Miller
5.0
I liked a lot, there is so few books on lesbian radical feminism and i really appreciate hearing other women’s perspectives in this, as well it talks a lot about the normalisation of kink in lesbian communities (which is something that disturbs me greatly) and how this is tied to women-hating culture. While i don’t exactly agree with every single opinion; I feel like that doesn’t take away from how good the theory in this is, definitely very thought provoking!
Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion by Eleanor Medhurst
4.0
i have basically no interest in fashion itself but seeing the last signed copy of this in my local waterstones felt like fate, this book talked about so many lesbians throughout history i am obsessed. while i don’t totally agree with some of the things in this book from my feminist standpoint, i will take any sort of lesbian history i can get my hands on!
Ice and Fire by Andrea Dworkin
4.0
feels very much like a first draft of mercy, which i do prefer over this one. i wish dworkin wrote more fiction as her prose is so beautiful. need people to appreciate her fiction more!
The Equality Illusion: The Truth about Women and Men Today by Kat Banyard
4.0
kat baynard being one of the only fourth-wave feminists to actually write about how harmful prostitution and porn is! deeply commendable. (i did skip the section on male “feminists” though…), anyone in the reviews saying this book shames women read it with their eyes closed i fear.
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin by Amy Scholder, Johanna Fateman, Andrea Dworkin
5.0
would be a good introduction into dworkin’s writing as it includes different topics from all of her published works (wish they included the virginity chapter from intercourse as it’s some of her best work). my suicide is one of the most gut-wrenching thing i have read in my life this quote had me sitting here sobbing i hope she is at peace now:
“I want to live but I don't know how. I don't want more violence to my body, even by me. But I can't bear knowing what I know, in all regards. I ask God to forgive me. Please forgive me all my stupidities and my cruelties. Please don't let there be karma because I don't want to have to do this again. Please take care of Paul and my cats. Please help the women. Please let me die now. “
i love you andrea dworkin 🩷
“I want to live but I don't know how. I don't want more violence to my body, even by me. But I can't bear knowing what I know, in all regards. I ask God to forgive me. Please forgive me all my stupidities and my cruelties. Please don't let there be karma because I don't want to have to do this again. Please take care of Paul and my cats. Please help the women. Please let me die now. “
i love you andrea dworkin 🩷
Mercy by Andrea Dworkin
5.0
the penultimate chapter was the best of the book, the whole book was like seeing a woman slowly unravel because of constant subjection and abuse from males. took me so long to get through because it was so brutal and true to life as a woman. i am still thinking about it a week on and listening to her talk about this book dworkin is an especially genius fiction writer.
“It’s very important for women to kill men. His death, of course, is unbearable. His death is intolerable, unspeakable, unfair, insufferable; I agree; I learned it since the day I was born; terrible; his death is terrible; are you crazy; are you stupid; are you cruel? He can't be killed; for what he did to you?”
“It’s very important for women to kill men. His death, of course, is unbearable. His death is intolerable, unspeakable, unfair, insufferable; I agree; I learned it since the day I was born; terrible; his death is terrible; are you crazy; are you stupid; are you cruel? He can't be killed; for what he did to you?”
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
4.5
this has scared me so bad, which is probably why it’s so highly rated because it feels, especially with the state of women’s rights globally, quite plausible. i feel like it did a really good job of showing two aspects of women’s oppression like the juxtaposition of what is essentially a brothel and the breeding houses that offred lives in being two sides of the same coin that subjects the female body.
Ordeal by Linda Lovelace, Mike McGrady
5.0
one of the most heartbreaking memoirs i have read, the fact she died without justice and that the cycle of pornography continues is hitting me so hard. i hope she is at peace, and that everyone who continues to stream her rape dies instantly.