Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo: Healing Hearts and Nations
“My innate impulse is healing, which is also standing up for justice, which can heal hearts and...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: A Woman Writer Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
First she was told about a grain sack dating from around 1851 that had these words embroidered on...
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Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Woman Writer Kerri Andrews (2020)
I’m what people call ‘a walker.’ There is rarely a day that passes that I do not intentionally go...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite (American Writer 2019): “Make noise about this!”
In 2019 one of my sisters gave me a copy of the book This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism,...
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