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This book was SO good! A trio of Black female authors who have dedicated their careers to feminist education share their experiences while discussing everything from music to consent to intersectionality in everyday context. They provide practical life advice on how to be a better feminist and how to discuss that to people who still think feminism is a dirty word. It's written for a young audience, but I actually thought that made it so fun.

TW: Assault

I am one of those women who was raised to be "sugar and spice and everything nice". Men have taken advantage of that and hurt me because I was too nice to stand up for myself and they knew that. I've worried about taking up too much space, not being pretty enough, and yielding to men so I don't seem "out of line". Fuck that. Fuck all of that. I'm learning how to become a better feminist and that starts with shedding my niceties.

I finished all of my homework and orders before the deadline yesterday. 💪
My lesson plans for next week are done. ✔️
My reading for next week's homework is already done. (I binge read the book it one sitting last night - see my last post...it was so good!) ✔️

I started reading another book I picked up from the library and I can't put it down. I heard there's a Rihanna concert on TV later, so I'm just going to read and drink coffee until then. 😍

I wanted to love this because I absolutely loved Cooper's Eloquent Rage, but alas. I'm obviously not the intended audience here and thus it's hard to rate, but I don't think I would have been into it as a teen. I read a YA book on feminism a few years ago (ed. Kelly Jensen) that I loved and felt it hit the mark for its audience perfectly whereas this felt like it was often talking down to teens which is alienating. Still great info here though.