Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

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Found this listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I've been thinking of "Difficult Women" by Roxanne Gay.Difficult Women

I'm planning to read one of these two:

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Girl, Woman, Other

Dee wrote: "Found this listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/..."

Thanks for the list.

I'm checking my personal library and if I can't find anything then I'll look at what's there.

I have a few things I'm hoping to get to this year for this task, but I'm hoping to at least do Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot and Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism.

This is a very specific prompt! Book Riot seems to have gone very specific this year. I am trying to read from my TBR as much as possible so while I don't have books that are specifically *about* intersectional feminism, I do have some that come from the perspective of intersectional feminism so I will likely read one of those.

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
So You Want to Talk About Race
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Tricia wrote: "I'm planning to read one of these two:

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Girl, Woman, Other"

Girl Woman Other is great but it is fiction and it is not particularly feminist.

Planning on reading This Book Is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Feminists in Training for this prompt.

I'll most likely read all of these in 2023 since they've been staring at me from my shelf long enough:

Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

I'm thinking of either of these two:

Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film
Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

I'm going with We Should All Be Feminists or Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

I've just splashed out on Black Feminist Anthropology! It's about £25, but looks like it'll be fascinating!

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color is my pick for this one.

Bad Feminist has been on my TBR for awhile.

I'm considering Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass, but wonder if maybe I don't understand what "intersectional feminism" means. What say you?

Sally wrote: "I'm considering Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass, but wonder if maybe I don't understand what "intersectional femi..."

That looks like it fits! "Intersectional feminism" is essentially combining feminism with another oppressed group (BIPOC, LGBT, low income, etc. Plus sized would fall under oppressed group)

Thanks, Erika. That's what I thought!

I was planning to read

White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

but I'm unsure whether it totally fits the prompt.

Has anyone read it and can give me an idea if it would work?

Thanks!

I'm going to go with Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. This is a topic I've wanted to learn more about for a while. The discussion in the news and otherwise about Muslim women is so often dominated by white racist men. So I hope this will help dispel the myths and prejudices I have unintentionally picked up by being exposed to all the propaganda perpetuated by these men.

Robin wrote: "Bad Feminist has been on my TBR for awhile."

that's such a brilliant book! I try to recommend this one to all my girlies who claim themselves "anti-feminist".

I read White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color and, wow, that's a must read. It was uncomfortable at parts, but it was really eye opening.

Alex wrote: "I read White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color and, wow, that's a must read. It was uncomfortable at parts, but it was really eye opening."

immediate add to TBR!

I think this book will work: Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

Tomboys are often a marginalized group because society still expects them to fit the traditional version of a girl/woman.

Listening to the audiobook for The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor.

I listened to The Argonauts, narrated by the author. Difficult topic. During the time that the author was pregnant her partner was undergoing transition to male.

I'm currently reading The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan

I read White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

Okay so I was still having a hard time with this topic since I was confused. After looking into some articles I finally have a small grasp on it.

That said, I found that the book I am currently reading will work for this.

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Robin wrote: "Bad Feminist has been on my TBR for awhile."

I actually got it for a book club a few years ago, but I skipped around so much I never felt like I could claim to have finished it. So now I am going to go back and finish it for reals. :-)

I think for this one I'm probably going to do I Should Have Honor by Khalida Brohi. I figure it combines feminism with race, religion, and education.

Stina wrote: "Robin wrote: "Bad Feminist has been on my TBR for awhile."

I actually got it for a book club a few years ago, but I skipped around so much I never felt like I could claim to have f..."

I just listened to the audiobook of this a few weeks ago. What a great collection of essays, and one I think everyone should read!

For this prompt, I was planning to read We Should All Be Feminists or a book by Roxane Gay since I haven't read anything by her, and I want to!

I saw Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism which is also on my TBR but ms. hooks has wrecked me recently, and I don't know if I'm ready for round two yet.

We Should All Be Feminists is by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, and it is a nice very entry level book on feminism. If you read a lot of feminist theory it might not be exactly what you are looking for. It is a one sitting read though so not a major time investment. If you want to read Roxane Gay, I recommend Hunger,which definitely fits the prompt and whish is a truly great memoir with a focus o. sexual assault, and which addresses misogyny, anti-fatness and racism.

I was going to read something philosophical and earnest, but I love the humor podcast Guilty Feminist and just realized there's a book by host Deborah Frances-White that fits this prompt. It's called The Guilty Feminist: You Don't Have to Be Perfect to Overthrow the Patriarchy.

I read How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Excellent!!

Dee wrote: "Found this listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/..."

I'm reading this right now, and it's definitely NOT nonfiction. It's very much thought provoking and feminist and intersectional, but, unfortunately for this challenge, is fiction.

Monica wrote: "I read How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Excellent!!"

I read that a couple years ago and loved it. I was so inspired by those women!

I read The Geek Feminist Revolution for this prompt.

Just read The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, a book about the female factory workers of WWI who got radium poisoning then sued their past employers at a time with little care for the safety of workers. It is all about the intersectionality of feminism and the fight for workers rights. So good!