This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by Ashton Applewhite (2019): “Make noise about this!”
Celebrating the New Year has always made me feel frantic, especially New Year’s Eve as the...
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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
Congratulations to Tiya Miles for winning a 2021 National Book Award in the category of Nonfiction...
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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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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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Sovereign Self by Acharya Shunya (2020)
After listening to Acharya Shunya discuss her latest book Sovereign Self: Claim Your Inner Joy and...
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what the patriarchy has to gain from us feeling unloved and unlovable—Communion: the female search for love by bell hooks (American Woman Writer, 2002)
This book kinda sorta unexpectedly rocked my world. It has such an innocent title. Gah! I had...
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The Book of Longings (2020) by Woman Writer Sue Monk Kidd: The Spirit in You that Rebels and Persists
When my sister Theresa and I began the Nasty Women Writers project three years ago, we set out to...
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by American Woman Writer Ursula K. Le Guin – “Revolution begins in the Thinking Mind”
It felt like a good time to read some Ursula K. Le Guin, wise thinker of our time, who passed...
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