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Era of Ignition
Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution | Amber Tamblyn
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A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times by actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn In her late twenties, Amber Tamblyn experienced a crisis of character while trying to break out of the confines of the acting career she'd forged as a child in order to become the writer and director she dreamed of being as an adult. After a particularly low period fueled by rejection and disillusionment, she grabbed hold of her own destiny and entered into what she calls an Era of Ignition--namely, the time of self-reflection that follows in the wake of personal upheaval and leads to a call to action and positive change. In the process of undergoing this metaphysical metamorphosis, she realized that our country was going through an Era of Ignition of its own. She writes: "No longer stuck in a past we can't outrun and a future we must outgrow, we are a nation that is actively confronting our values and agitating for change. We are in an age when activism becomes direct action, when disagreement becomes dissention, when dissatisfaction becomes protest, when accusations become accountability, and when revolts become revolutions." Through her fierce op-eds and tireless work as one of the founders of the Time's Up organization, Amber has emerged as a bold, outspoken, and respected advocate for women's rights. In Era of Ignition, she addresses gender inequality and the judgment paradigm, misogyny and discrimination, trauma and the veiled complexities of consent, white feminism and pay parity, reproductive rights and sexual assault--all told through the very personal lens of her own experiences, as well as those of her Sisters in Solidarity. At once an intimate meditation and public reckoning, Era of Ignition is a galvanizing feminist manifesto that is required reading for everyone attempting to understand the world we live in and help change it for the better.
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JenniferEgnor
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The author makes a unique analogy about Saturn‘s return, and the return of the self. This book is the story of her on return. Sexual assault, various forms of misogyny, (including internalized by womxn), transphobia, Black feminism are all discussed, and, as much needed—the problem of white feminism. I really enjoyed this book.

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American misogyny transcends gender __and__ race.

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I have often said this: Who hates women more than Donald Trump does? Other women.

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Somehow the idea of a woman being oppressive to another woman is something that is very difficult for people to see as real.

—Meredith Talusan
She/Them

Check out Meredith‘s Them on Instagram!

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A guy who used to be a very close friend and who I knew was a Trump supporter texted me about a film he had just seen, and I used to opportunity to ask him what he thought of the tape. Since he had a young daughter, did it change his mind about his candidate in any way? He wrote me back and told me to leave his daughter out of politics and that what Trump had said were “just words.” This was a man I had known and been neighbors with for almost

JenniferEgnor a decade, whose family I had spent time with and whose wife I was close with. It was the last time I ever spoke to him. Had he been this way the whole time and I just ignored it? Had most men I knew been like this the whole time and I just ignored it? 1y
JenniferEgnor ***(It turns out, almost all the men in my life were this way the whole time. If it wasn‘t clear before…it was now. They are no longer part of my life). 1y
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…with the kind of personality and temperament that makes up most women‘s nightmares. He was every racist boss we ever worked for, every uncle we ever hid from, every man we would never, under any circumstances, marry. He personified not just the worst of mankind, but also the worst kind of man: the one in the store whose hand grazes your ass when walking by, or the one who crudely comments on your body and appearance during a meeting, or the one

JenniferEgnor who tells you to smile, the one who talks over you, talks down to you, talks at you, talks through you. 1y
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Based on what I‘ve written and because I call myself a feminist, a person once asked me if I hated men. (A lot of people say this about feminists in general). I do not hate men at all. I am critical of them, which is something I wish they themselves would be: have some introspective inquisition. I do not take pleasure in having to police the intentions of these men and this culture as a whole, nor does any other woman I know. It is

JenniferEgnor exhausting and frustrating, leaving little room for the work I would much rather be doing. The notion that I or any other woman takes pleasure in having to continuously point out these grievances is ludicrous and feels more like a ploy to point the finger back at us instead of accepting some responsibility. It is within a man‘s power to help shift the paradigm, not just a woman‘s duty to point out the problems inherent in that paradigm. The (edited) 1y
JenniferEgnor only way for any of us to be not just part of the problem but part of the solution is to first go inward and observe our own patterns. To own them, then take action. 1y
JenniferEgnor Shown: my good friend Lynn Dugan at a Womxn‘s March in Charleston, SC, 2022. She is queer, and founded Charleston Pride. 1y
Amiable I‘m a proud feminist. And I don‘t hate men (not all of them, at least!) I am married to a wonderful man whose mother raised him to be a feminist as well. And I raised my two sons to be feminists, too. 1y
JenniferEgnor @Amiable me too! Feminist doesn‘t mean we hate men. We should all be feminists! My husband is a feminist, too. I have many cis male friends who are straight and white. They are feminists, too. So too are my queer male friends who are white, and BIPOC. Feminism is a wonderful thing and we still need it. It doesn‘t take much looking around in the world to see that. This is a collective fight. 1y
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More often than not, men are the gatekeepers and women are locked outside, doing everything we can and sometimes things we don‘t want to do just to unlock the gate, let alone get a set of our own keys.

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I lopped off six inches of my hair with a pair of kitchen scissors as David tried to disappear into our couch, avoiding me. I bought myself some balloons and tied a lock of the hair to one of them with a note that said, “May a witch find this and cast the kindest of spells.”

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Mehso-so

Part memoir part manifesto from one of the founders of #timesup actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn. Celebrity memoirs are not really my thing and the manifesto part didn't work for me either.

#nonfiction2019 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa This one is on my list to read too, sorry you didn‘t enjoy it more. But great job on your challenge! 5y
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JamieArc
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When you find yourself thinking, “I can‘t wait to finish this so I can move on to something else,” it‘s time to bail. Amber Tamblyn is a badass. No question about that. But this felt like a celebrity memoir regurgitating the events of the #metoo movement. What I wanted was a collection of insightful essays. Not to relive all the gross moments of the last few years, from a lens that was full of name dropping and unrelatable. #itsnotyouitsme

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Jen2
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Amazing!!!!

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Bookalong
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Bailedbailed

So this one didn't do it for me. I got about halway through and decided to stop. It was slightly repetitive and was kind of all over the place. It didn't flow and
really just wasnt holding my interest.
I like and agree with some of her views on Feminism but she lost me on the delivery.
I really wanted to love this one but alas did not.

There are a lot of positive reviews, and I'm sure several readers would find this a powerful read.

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Amber Tamblyn continues to lead by example in a book so intelligent and self-aware. Over the last 10 years she's proven herself to be a capable poet, director, author, mother, and leader. She left an abusive relationship, she found new love and the bravery to choose when to start a family, she successfully directed a movie, wrote a novel, protested while 9 months pregnant, birthed a baby girl, &
co-established Time's Up to support working women.

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I first remembered @amberrosetamblyn from being on General Hospital, @maceyjann recognized her from The Sisterhood of the traveling Pants, but we both appreciate her honest speaking, writing and tireless work as a founder of the #timesup organization. #girlpower #eraofignition #booksofinstagram @penguinrandomhouse I was so excited to hear her speak today!!

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