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#expressyourself is about female empowerment - here are some books I've tagged 'feminism'. #MOvember @Cinfhen

I have just bought the tagged book, but I don't think many of you will be surprised that I bought this one too! 🤣🤣🤣

This tiny book was interesting & thought provoking. I agreed with some points and disagreed on others but ultimately, it gave me s new perspective on feminism and what it means to see, make space for, and protect other women. It discusses Communism at length and positively and that was a new experience for me. I recommend this book for info seekers who like to think outside the box and don‘t have to completely agree with an author.

Diving in! #westrike #timesup #feminism4the99 #resistreads

Yeah! I really enjoyed this takedown of liberal feminism. This is a fantastic explanation of why liberal feminism fails us, and how it plays into capitalism and perpetuates oppression, even when it seems "progressive." My only complaint is the authors still often defaulted to saying "women" instead of just "people" even while, at many other times, stressing that feminism must be inclusive of trans and nonbinary folks. Still a thoughtful read.

A little persistence reading. #persist

#bookhaul from BookWoman in Austin! I could have spent so much here but I managed to just get three. That‘s a book of Ursula Leguin essays and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé underneath. It took me SO long to narrow down to these I wanted to buy the whole shop

The sad truth even if a woman crashes that presidential glass ceiling,some of the policies and practices of capitalism are grinding most of humanity down.This is rough to read ,I understand the concepts .Feeling like the 1% hope we never figure out that many are fleeing their countries because of the conditions greed & corporate excess have created then denied, are crushing society & women most of all.
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#24B4Monday #Readathon Well , I‘ve got a sporting event,workers coming for a yard project, but since it‘s going to be 100 degrees outside tomorrow,I won‘t be going out much.These are in the mix , maybe more .I most likely will be sleeping before the midnight start time. Happy Readathon!

Sorry about the earlier spamming, I was at work with no WiFi so unable to post as I came to the passages I just posted. This book has a lot inside it, kinda preaching to the converted with me and I‘m not sure a complete beginner (ie that one relative you really disagree with) would get all the concepts inside. But it talks about how a lot of issues are interconnected such as climate justice, racism and other injustices are all linked.

I cannot stand a bigot who uses this as their excuse for why they are islamaphobic! Throw in them also suddenly caring about working class girls being raped when it‘s a Muslim who did it when you know for a fact they don‘t care about these issues at any other time. (For any Americans who may not know I am talking about a horrific case of sexual exploitation that took place in Rotherham in the uk and has been used by right wing assholes)

This has always bothered me about a certain type of mainstream lean in feminism.
Getting women to the top is great except the system is wrong. I do have a chip on my shoulder about the fact that my job is coded as traditionally feminine and is chronically underpaid and people think of it as “unskilled”.
This needs to change!

A fiery, necessary read about feminism needing to start from the bottom. A lot of this jibes with my own beliefs & politics so it's preaching to the converted, but I love the righteously angry, take-no-prisoners style of this manifesto. It's easy to say that one is anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, & a feminist, but to put it into practice when we're all hemmed in by circumstances & trying to survive is something else. Essential ✊🏽

Yup.