Feminism
Here we explore the identifications that determine our governmental, economic and social outcomes.
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Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
bell hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future.
bell hooks
Brass Tacks: On Feminism and Misogyny
Explore the evolution of the terms “feminism” and “misogyny” and how we may or may not relate to their true meanings.
Up With Community
13 Must Reads for the Black Feminist in Training
Discover 13 books about the history and culture of black women.
Ashley Ford @ Buzzfeed
Lemonade Syllabus
Discover over 200 resources celebrating black womanhood. Resources range from fiction classics, black feminist theory, inspirational and self-help guides, music, and more.
Candice Benbow
The Intersectional Woman’s Reading List
Read real-life stories from 11 young women who are tackling head-on the issues of race, gender, and class.
Doree Shafrir @ BuzzFeed
Everyday Feminism
The Everyday Feminism website strives to maintain a respectful, engaging, and thoughtful community of feminists who are supportive of each other’s marginalized identities and experiences.
Everyday Feminism
The works of bell hooks, a primer
Get to know the works of writer bell hooks with this introduction by Brandie DeRusha.
Book Riot
5 books by Audre Lorde everyone should read
Audre Lorde deemed herself a “black feminist lesbian mother poet.” Years before Professor Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality,” Lorde’s poetry and prose embody the theory. Lorde uses her story of personal survival to reveal inconvenient truths about the marginalization of oppressed people.
http://www.forharriet.com/
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Updated and expanded edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.
Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua
Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
A wake up call from Audre Lorde for women to recognize different experiences and backgrounds such as race, age and sex in order to use them as tools for societal change.
University of Colorado Boulder
Womanist Reader The First Quarter Century
Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker’s African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi’s African womanism and Clenora Hudson-Weems’ Africana womanism, to its present-day expression as a global, anti-oppressionist perspective rooted in the praxis of everyday women of color, this interdisciplinary reader traces the rich and diverse history of a quarter century of womanist thought.
Layli Phillips
The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls
A manifesto for all feminists in the fight against patriarchy. Eltahawy shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid.
Mona Eltahawy
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Discover the shocking gender bias that affects everyday lives of women from government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media.
Caroline Criado Perez
Inferior
Saini takes us on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of entrenched exclusion and prejudice.
Angela Saini
Women’s March
Harnessing the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.
Women's March
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
Explore the interviews, frameworks, templates and articles created and published by Up With Community.
GROW COMMUNITY
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