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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Category: Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist
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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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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Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine (2020): Fact-Checking and Footnoting Her Own Pain – Women Writers on Writing
This book was hard to read. It is full of raw pain. I so appreciate Rankine’s willingness to...
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A Long Petal of the Sea by Woman Writer Isabel Allende (2020)
The exposed beating of a heart, a miraculous extension of a life almost extinguished by the...
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Indigenous Woman Writer Paula Gunn Allen: Pocahontas was a Powerful Medicine Woman with a Plan
#Nastywomanwriter Paula Gunn Allen (1939-2008) sets the record straight about another #nastywoman...
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