Thematic Reading - Intersectional Feminism

This is a cross posting from my other critical theory and feminist group. See link below for original post:

https://www.meetup.com/oc-feminist-and-critical-theory-book-club/events/312628831/

Starting off the new year fresh with new vision: Let's move on to reading Intersectional Feminism:

Meetup format:
11-11:45am: read silently, bring your own book;
11:45-12:30pm: bookish talk about intersectional feminism.

Disclaimer: Below is a list of related books that I asked AI to generate for me. If you have other books that you want to bring and introduce to others in the group, feel free to do so.

Intersectional Feminism Books
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (Hardcover)
by Mikki Kendall (Goodreads Author)
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by Angela Y. Davis
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by Audre Lorde
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Paperback)
by bell hooks
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (Paperback)
by Ruby Hamad
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Paperback)
by bell hooks
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by Cherríe L. Moraga (Editor)
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by Bernardine Evaristo
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (Hardcover)
by Brittney Cooper
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by Judith Butler
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ebook)
by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption (Hardcover)
by Rafia Zakaria
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Mass Market Paperback)
by bell hooks
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by Caroline Criado Pérez
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by bell hooks
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by Ijeoma Oluo
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by Angela Y. Davis
Assata: An Autobiography (Paperback)
by Assata Shakur
On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw (Paperback)
by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Paperback)
by Patricia Hill Collins
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Hardcover)
by Reni Eddo-Lodge
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Paperback)
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by Maya Angelou
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (Paperback)
by Trinh T. Minh-ha
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (Hardcover)
by Charlene Carruthers
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by Rebecca Solnit
Americanah (Hardcover)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Women and Gender in Islam (Paperback)
by Leila Ahmed
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice (Hardcover)
by Shon Faye
Women Don't Owe You Pretty (Kindle Edition)
by Florence Given
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by Sonya Renee Taylor
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life (Paperback)
by Emily Nagoski (Goodreads Author)
The Witches Are Coming (Hardcover)
by Lindy West
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America – The New York Times Bestseller: Incisive Cultural Criticism on Race and Gender
by Morgan Jerkins (Goodreads Author)
Stone Butch Blues (Hardcover)
by Leslie Feinberg
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by Alice Walker
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by Simone de Beauvoir
82년생 김지영 (Hardcover)
by Cho Nam-Joo
Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About (Kindle Edition)
by Laura Bates (Goodreads Author)
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Hardcover)
by Kate Manne (Goodreads Author)
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Paperback)
by Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)
Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism (Paperback)
by June Eric-Udorie (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
Living a Feminist Life (Hardcover)
by Sara Ahmed (Goodreads Author)
The Feminine Mystique (Paperback)
by Betty Friedan

Choose any one among the above or bring your own of choice. No pressure to keep every one reading the same book. In fact, I do hope to have various people reading different books, so that we can exchange and learn from each other.

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Reading feminism is difficult. Reading feminist work now and then is particularly difficult as feminism evolved so much over that past decades, and it is still evolving every single day. Finding people that are still interested in and committed to reading feminism while tolerating unknown and uncertainty is extra difficult, especially nowadays with the uprising of cancel culture and extremism.

What if we try to do it together ?

I'm creating this new Saturday morning series as a social experiment, hoping that can find and connect with more like minded people.

Please bring a curious and open mindset to socialize, connect, and chat about feminism in history and contemporary society, and be ready to share with others. The broad umbrella for discuss is from the lens of dialecticism, feminism, and critical theory. Let's practice not taking things for granted, and conversing with an open mindedness for diverse opinions and living experiences.

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