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Jen2
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Pickpick

Inspiring

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Jen2
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Very good.

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lil1inblue
Go with the Flow | Lily Williams, Karen Schneemann
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I found this graphic novel via NYPL's Teen Banned Book Club. It is inspiring, funny, heart-warming, and utterly delightful. It's an amazing resource, as well. Books like this need to exist.

You can watch NYPL's online event with the authors here: https://www.youtube.com/live/WpNLG725Uss?si=hLu7F29lGv_Cem01

And the book club link is: https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/freedom-to-read/teen-book-club

##withthebanned

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KathyWheeler
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I really liked the way Cooper mixes the political and personal in this book. As a white woman, she made me rethink some encounters I had in my 20s; that was interesting. I loved her section about theology for grown women. Cooper also does an excellent job narrating the audiobook; I may go back and read it in print. #SheSaid #audiowalk

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TheBookgeekFrau
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I think there was a point that was pro women, but it was lost in all the digressions #HailTheBail #BetterBooksAhead

29/80

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#MonthlyNonfiction2025
#ReadingMyTBR #Reading2025

TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 6d
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TheBookgeekFrau
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Starting this #BookSpinBingo read this morning

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sdbruening
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I thought I was pretty up and up on ways that we women are oppressed, ignored, dismissed, and harassed in the world. I feel like I knew nothing after listening to this book 😭 It was a highly depressing and enlightening listen. I appreciate that this author put all this data together for a really impactful eye-opener. The sound editing of the transitions wasn‘t good in the audiobook; kept chopping off the beginning words of chapters.

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Hello #SheSaid!

Some good essays this week, I could not help thinking about some of the current US political/religious melding that is happening currently. See you all in the comments as you finish this section!

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I am not black, so I do not want to overstep here, but boy could I relate this week. My great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother all got married and had children young. And I was determined not to fall into that pattern….even as my younger cousins got married & got pregnant (not all in that order)…I was like, nope, not going there until I graduate from college. And then it‘s like…wait, where are the guys, the good ones are married already 🤣 1w
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ overall great essays this week, both on patriarchy/empire/military control and religion thoughts bleeding over into control, and always abstinence and sex=bad, never birth control/ knowledge and accessibility=good. Those really stuck out to me this week as the US is going through a hyper-toxic masculinity period where Dad knows all because he is an awesome multi-dimensional chess player and if you do not understand you are dumb.⤵️ 1w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ let‘s go back to empire and take a few countries (they want us to, really they are just asking for it), and tariff everyone even if it upsets the global economic order we were the head of, because “sounds” tough 🙄 1w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I will apologize to those of you in other countries having to put up with our current US “policy”. 1w
Bookwormjillk My library copy came in this week. I‘ll try to catch up. 1w
AllDebooks Love this author and her essays 1w
vlwelser I'm really enjoying this author. I loved the story about her grandmother. I'm also one of those people that had stuff to do and never thought about finding a partner. But I had no intention of settling in order to get children that I maybe also didn't really want. 1w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser Same…somehow I just thought, like her, that there were guys doing the same, and would be good men at the end of it. But I live in a very “red” area and (I say this sarcastically, but with some truth), well-educated women who have opinions are not really “IN” at the moment 😂 1w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ..honestly finding other people that read books are difficult to find sometimes….so yay for Litsy. 1w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser Now to get a little more serious, I think America is going through a phase where expertise in anything is not appreciated and valued. A bit of a “dark ages” here and now I see the beginning of a brain drain starting as academics and knowledge are being devalued and those that can, moving themselves where there will be research funding & opportunities. 🤷‍♀️ 1w
vlwelser I hope we just need to tuck in and wait this out. But that's not exactly how change happens. I am also glad to have found a lot of really well educated women on the internet. But I live in a really blue state so this behavior is more normal here. 1w
Hooked_on_books I enjoyed this week‘s essays. I did have some thoughts about her wanting the US government to intervene with Boko Haram. Of course I wanted those girls rescued, but I have to ask where and how we should intervene in other sovereign nations. It‘s a fraught thing. Leaning on a government to push them to get a rescue to happen is one thing, but intervening militarily is technically an act of war. So I can‘t agree with her about using our military 🔽 7d
Hooked_on_books thought I certainly was horrified and wanted to see those girls rescued. I also loved her grandma! What a hoot! I am not religious but was raised Catholic and completely agree with her about how damaging the teaching about sexuality to girls is in many Christian faiths. It leads to a lot of disordered thoughts later and isn‘t good. 7d
Hooked_on_books @Riveted_Reader_Melissa You mention the brain drain and knowledge being devalued, and I have to say that‘s part of what drove me out of my profession. I was living in a blue/purple area and even so, more and more people would look at what I said as a physician with skepticism. How can you get informed consent from people who refuse to be informed? It felt like a constant fight and it was exhausting. And I‘m not alone, which is bad. 7d
AnneCecilie I love how she mixes the personal with facts. I‘m not black either, but how she talks about mothers and grandmothers makes it more relatable, even if I have completely different relationships with mine. 6d
Hooked_on_books I forgot to say how it struck me that she‘s anti-patriarchy (as we all should be), but in the final essay for today mentions wanting black men to step up to protect black women, which is a patriarchal attitude. I would have liked to see her unpack that conflict—that would have been really interesting. 6d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa It‘s a few years old now, but a lot of what it talked about is fermenting and now running things. I can see it in things like Signal-gate. They just think they know better, and anyone else that is complaining are sticklers/crazy, 🤷‍♀️. They had a “doctor” on who was meeting with unvaccinated people for Measles info (all the not-vaccinate alternatives they are recommending), while he actively had the measles. 🙄 (edited) 6d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Hooked_on_books I thought that was interesting too, but I think for me it boiled down to they expect women to stand up for and protest for them, but it is not reciprocated because they think women should still be quiet/not heard, or black women are loud, so ok, or as she mentioned, she is large so should be able to take care of herself. 🤷‍♀️. Lots of intersections in that discussion. Might be a deeper one too, not just the socialization part ⤵️ 6d
Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ You mentioned, that men should protect women. But also one about racism…loud/angry black men more likely to be handled violently by police for example, than loud/angry black women, so subconsciously let them be the angry front face. But I think no matter what angle we look at it, everyone needs to stand up for everyone else more, not just when it‘s knocking on their individual door. (edited) 6d
Hooked_on_books Absolutely yes, we should all be supporting and looking out for one another more. We have to stop looking at people as “us” or “them” and look at every individual as a human being. And I absolutely need to read that book! I can‘t believe I haven‘t heard of it and it looks incredibly satisfying. 6d
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KathyWheeler
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I‘m finally caught up on this for #SheSaid. I particularly liked the section on theology for grown women. The temperatures were great today, with a wonderful breeze. I‘m going to hate it when it starts getting hot and muggy again. #audiowalk

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AnneCecilie
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I had no idea

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