I'm really getting a lot out of reading my sociopolitical books from my #Roll100 list. It's making me feel better about the whole global situation atm, be that climate change, equality, AI, human rights, economics, or governance. There are people fighting back, educating, informing, documenting, and pushing for change. Some can be difficult reads but empowering for that. I highly recommend it.
@PuddleJumper
Looking forward to the Dworkin reissues! (Great covers imo.) I‘ve read 2 of these 3, and had to read them as pdfs 🙃 so we‘re well overdue for the reprint.
pickYeah, I don‘t. Not anymore!
Clem is a brilliant Australian journalist, feminist and activist. I learn so much from her books and they are very amusing as well.
But the sad reality is that the people who should read these books and gain a new perspective of things never are the ones who do.
#Oznonfiction
Feminism can be experienced as giving life, or as taking one‘s own life back, a life that you might have experienced as what you have given to others, or even what has been taken by other people‘s expectations.
pickI read a few pages and I‘m already in love with it 🥰👏
pickThis book is just 190 pages, but it‘s powerful, and beautifully written. Black women have been telling us to look at the whole picture. We must do it through the lens of Black Feminism. White Feminism has failed us, time and time again. The author breaks down liberation and decolonization, giving us a new way to think about and apply, what she calls ‘Sensuous Knowledge‘. Highly recommended. Link to her website: https://msafropolitan.com/
When it comes to beauty, we need to detach our ideas of beauty from heteronormativity, patriarchy, and racism and redefine beauty from a woman-centered point of view. We need to explore beauty from an active rather than a passive position of womanhood—as subjects and not objects, as directors of the orchestra rather than the instruments to be played. The orchestra might look similar, but the song will sound different.
At some point in life the world‘s beauty becomes enough. You don‘t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don‘t need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens—that letting go—you let go because you can. The world will always be there—while you sleep it will be there—when you wake it will be there as well. So you can sleep and there is reason to awake. —Tony Morrison
