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Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement | Suzanne Cope

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This is probably the best nonfiction I've read this year. This speaks to my soul.

#readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub

And since it's #tuesdaytunes, I'll also say I now have a whole new understanding of Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddam: https://youtu.be/teqWnF-HD1M?si=oyZLcasQnplxmX-2

@TieDyeDude

lil1inblue Interview with Suzanne Cope: https://linewaitersgazette.com/2021/12/20/suzanne-copes-book-spotlights-the-unsu... 10h

lil1inblue Suzanne Cope presents Power Hungry with Cleo Silvers: https://youtu.be/9G5tKTZgfOs?si=R2DLB8EKTHXDDahB 10h

AmyG You don‘t need it to be Tuesday to listen to Nina Simone. (edited) 10h

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lil1inblue @AmyG So true! The song just fits with the book so well - I figured it would be a good Tuesday tunes share. 🙂 9h

TieDyeDude Thanks for all these resources! It is crazy the work the Black Panthers put back into their communities, and how the gov't worked to stop it and suppress people's awareness of their good deeds. 6h

TheBookHippie @AmyG 💯💯💯 5h

TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude you would really like this book. It‘s probably my number one for the year. 5h

TheBookHippie I think of this book every single day. 5h

TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude https://open.substack.com/pub/mrsfrazzled/p/the-black-panthers-free-breakfast?r=... 5h

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie It's so good. I want to give it to everyone I know. P.S. You put this on my radar, so thank you! 🥰 2h

TheBookHippie @lil1inblue ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 2h

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Jari-chan

Strong Female Character | Fern Brady

November reading month.
#botm #bookofthemonth

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Hooked_on_books

Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage | In This Together Media

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These are vignettes from some famous names but mostly people I didn‘t know about facing adversity. When someone said “you can‘t” because of disability, race, gender, sexuality, or other reasons, these people just went on and did it anyway. It‘s YA and definitely targeted at teens, but a good reminder for anyone about the power of determination.

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GingerAntics

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype | Clarissa Pinkola Est�s Phd

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OH HERE WE GO!!! Anytime someone writes about sacred sexuality, they always get weird with it. I‘m either laughing or cringing, and sitting here thinking… yeah no. I‘m already getting ‘yeah no‘ vibes from this book, so this is just going to be… 🤣😂🤦🏻‍♀️… bloodily brilliant. I think I‘m going to have to take a minute before diving into this chapter… at least until I stop laughing about the title of the chapter.

GingerAntics #ClarissaPinkolaEstes #WomenWhoRunWithTheWolves @Chrissyreadit @CaroPi, @Cuilin, @TheBookHippie, @Deblovestoread, @zezeki, @BookwormAHN, @PathfinderNicole, @ravenlee, @dabbe, @ElizaMarie, @ImperfectCJ, @nanuska_153, @nosufoxes, @lil1inblue 2d

TheBookHippie I‘m so behind -hopefully catch up this week. I loved parts of 1,2,3 hated 4, and 5 made me roll my eyes -so on to 6 etc this week… 2d

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I have no idea where we‘re actually supposed to be. I guess I‘m just trying to finish before the new year. 2d

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TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I lost track 🤣 2d

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I think everyone has. 2d

dabbe I haven't even started Ch. 3 yet. 🤦🏼‍♀️ 2d

Cuilin @TheBookHippie yeah I find my eyes rolling too 🙄 2d

ElizaMarie I am still on chapter 2 - totally got behind 2d

Chrissyreadit I am on the meandering path and will post chapters 7 and 8 soon I hope. This is really a jump in and out where you are buddy read- chaotic good energy just like me. 2d

Chrissyreadit Also @GingerAntics My perspective as a women who grew up in the 70‘s and 80‘s is to recognize that when she wrote this there would have still been overarching patriarchal views that influenced her attempts to empower women through a jungian lens. I see some of the problematic in the work personally and recognize her growth journey was far from complete too. I‘m grateful to live during a time when woke is both a four letter word loud and proud) and 2d

Chrissyreadit action!!! ( @Cuilin too) this is too say the problems are real and this would be an interesting grad project to annotate and update, but also i hope a way we can explore our own perspectives safely aside from the content and in reference to the context. Does that make sense? (edited) 2d

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit I did a lot of that last night, before even reading this chapter. I like it better under that idea as opposed to under the idea that it‘s groundbreaking nature has held up for most people (it probably has for quiverfull and pentecostal crowd). 1d

GingerAntics @Cuilin there is a lot to roll our eyes at here, I feel. lol 1d

Cuilin @Chrissyreadit I‘m here for the chaotic energy 💜 1d

Cuilin @Chrissyreadit @GingerAntics agreed this ripe for an update. The time is right considering all the red pilling at the moment. (edited) 1d

GingerAntics @Cuilin absolutely! 1d

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit totally here for the chaotic energy! It‘s definitely my vibe! lol 1d

nanuska_153 @dabbe same! 😅 1d

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AllDebooks

A Room Of One's Own And Three Guineas | Virginia Woolf

#VirginiaBloomsberries

November's #buddyread discussion thread.

✒️ Do you enjoy Virginia Woolf's writing style in her essays?

✒️ Did you agree or disagree with her?

✒️ Did you have a favourite quote from either essay?

✒️ What are her main points in her discussions?

AllDebooks @Librarybelle @TheBookHippie @IndoorDame @PurpleyPumpkin @TheKidUpstairs @quietlycuriouskate @Deblovestoread @Cuilin @AnneCecilie @kspenmoll @Graywacke @rubyslippersreads @AnishaInkspill @JenlovesJT47 @iamthatniki @monalyisha @Sparklemn @peanutnine 2d

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Andrea313

Jane Austen, the Secret Radical | Helena Kelly

It's been a loooong year with this book! Kelly's ideas offer some real ups and downs- the undercurrent of violence and unrest in P&P, sure; but Northanger and the danger of pregnancy? Half siblings in Wickham and Darcy, Harriet Smith and Jane Fairfax? I have to laugh. The chapter on Persuasion is bland by comparison, framing the novel as commentary on the uncertainty and malleability of all things, from great empires to the human heart. 👇👇👇

Andrea313 But what I really appreciate about this book, in spite of (because of??) the moments that feel like a bizarre reach, is the fact that Kelly is working to show us "that Jane is an artist, that her work is carefully considered, structured, themed, that she uses her writing to examine the great issues of her day." This kind of treatment is applied to to male writers every damn day, so I love seeing Austen and her worlds taken very seriously ??? 4d

Andrea313 and mined for meaning, nuance, symbolism, and a sense that she had very real and important things to say about the time and place in which she lived. After all, what else keeps bringing us back to her work all these years later? #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow 4d

Daisey I felt much the same about this one. It had fascinating ideas to consider, but some seemed an incredible stretch. 3d

Crinoline_Laphroaig Just from the review I agree with @Daisey. 3d

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TheDaysGoBy

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In | Kate Kennedy

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This was a soft pick for me. As a fellow millennial, she unlocked memories of stuff I haven‘t thought about in a long time. Some of her musings were interesting (like the bit about the pressure of having a job that‘s your passion - I‘m still feeling this today). But she definitely lost some points with me as she made an NSYNC reference citing lyrics as sung by Justin rather than JC. And getting Justin‘s age completely wrong. ⬇️

TheDaysGoBy I‘m not proud of my feelings. Just surprised she wouldn‘t have fact checked stuff she had to know people would call her out on, especially as she mentions research she‘d done on some topics 4d

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LadyCait84

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma | Claire Dederer

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What do (or should) we do with good art made by bad people?

I read this book in hopes of getting something close-ish to an answer to that question. I was left wanting, but don‘t really hold that against the author.

I do, however, hold how obnoxious I found the writing against her.

Hence the so-so rating.

SamAnne I was a bit disappointed in this book. It is such a great topic and I don‘t feel like she did it justice. 6d

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LapReader

I Don't | Clementine Ford

Friday was a rest and relaxation day for me before my ballet exam Sunday just gone. I got a head spa and massage then did a spot of op shopping. This haul was from The Samaritans in Hamilton for the grand total of $26. For those following along it‘s my 5th exam as an adult and I fell apart. I had been sick but it wasn‘t that bad and I wasn‘t super nervous but I made a mistake in the very first exercise and it took me a while to get over it.

Bookwormjillk Sorry to hear about the exam. You‘ll get ‘em next time. 7d

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