The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement by Laura Swan
Around 1200 AD in Europe, communities of women often called beguines began to form. These women...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist
We’re with Kate Manne: “Important and worthwhile to fight”
Ugh, the stifling air we’ve been breathing for thousands of years. The noxious fumes of...
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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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Reimagining the Quest for Black Freedom in the USA: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
It took me some time to understand what Hartman was creating with this book; to understand that...
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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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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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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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