pickThis was fabulous! I‘m super excited it was my #doublespin this month. @TheBookHippie thank you for the recommendation!
Written while she was still serving in congress, this starts as an autobiography but quickly morphs into a scathing incitement of what she encounters in society that no one‘s talking about & has to change: sexism, structural racism, the backhanded ways our government actually functions to serve power instead of the population⬇️
IndoorDame All of these are things we hear about today, but this was published in 1970 and just saying these things out loud was a truly revolutionary act. 2y
IndoorDame @LibrarianRyan #BBRCAdultProblematic As much as I loved this it‘s unsurprising that a political analysis from 52 years ago has things that strike me as problematic. Every time she described Americans as “black, white, red, yellow & brown“ I was especially taken aback because I know in 1970 the instances of individuals within the Asian & Native communities using Yellow/Red as identifiers were far from widespread, & they were mostly slurs (edited) 2y
LibrarianRyan Hummm. Sounds interesting. 2y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 2y
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