10 Books To Make Your Feminism More Intersectional

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No 1: ‘To My Trans Sisters’ – Edited by Charlie Craggs

I’m genuinely surprised that they were all books regards Transwomen.

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Am I right in supposing I'm not missing much?

Centering The Lady Cock: How to Make Your Feminism More Intersectional

Is feminism not inclusive of women enough? Why do we have to include men other people?

who is this tiresome non-capitalizing person at the end?

They're not all about trans, are they? The first one is but none of the rest?

Yawn.

Pathetic.

It would be good if people actually bothered learning what "intersectional" - as Kimberley Crenshaw saw it - is actually about.

Clue: It isn't neoliberal or about sparkles. It also doesn't mean "put women and girls below trans women in the hierarchy of oppression at all times." It doesn't mean "all women must agree that they have lady-brain or they are all evil bigots." And it has nothing to do with inclusion.

Can't think how they left out Woke by Titania McGrath.

Can you explain why my feminism needs to centre men, please?

How I lowered the cotton ceiling. A selection of poems centering penis.

bell hooks is well worth looking up, I certainly don't find her tiresome.

saying 'I don't do capitals' is enormously tiresome.

She's an African-American radical feminist from the south, she pretty much sums up what "intersectional" was coined to mean. Her writing is incredibly powerful. Your sneering makes you look a bit ignorant tbh.

she may well be all those things. Saying 'I don't do capitals' is tiresome and detracts from whatever message she wants to convey.

bowl because men?

Intersectionality was supposed to examine how types of women were doubly disadvantaged by for example, being poor, or black.

It does not provide any justification for centering men in feminism.

I must be ignorant because I too got hung up on the not doing capitals! But I am open-minded because I want to know why!

Why does not capitalising her name in anyway detract from what she is trying to say? I'm sure this prominent black feminist author in her sixties is worrying that people won't take her seriously because of the way she writes her pen name.

We're really all very quick to tell women how they must behave in order to be worthy of being listened to.

User07734 who do you think is doing that?

Saying 'I don't do capitals' is tiresome and detracts from whatever message she wants to convey.

Gloria Watkins attended racially segregated public schools in Hopkinsville as a child. She performed poetry readings for her church community and was heavily influenced by her great-grandmother, Bell Hooks, who was known for her sharp opinions. As a writer, she chose the pseudonym, bell hooks, in tribute to her mother and great-grandmother. She decided not to capitalize her new name to place focus on her work rather than her name, on her ideas rather than her personality.

That Audre Lorde collection is amazing

She decided not to capitalize her new name to place focus on her work rather than her name, on her ideas rather than her personality.

Thanks for posting that. I was wondering why she didn't use capitals, because like others I find that sort of affectation irritating. But surely by not capitalising her name she's doing the opposite of what she says, and drawing more attention to her name, because most people use capitals.