Best Reads (and Book Gifts) for the Rest of Us – 2018 – Here are my favorites books of 2018, just in time for gift-giving!
Tag: gender roles
All writing
Read more
Leaving the Queer Desert: A Review of Genevieve Hudson’s A LITTLE IN LOVE WITH EVERYONE
Can one be in love with a book? Like, have an ongoing relationship with it in which you spend time with it, learn new things from it, appreciate and value it, grow from it? And I’m not talking about being in love with a book like some of those women…
All writing
Read more
The Light Within: A Review of Shobha Rao’s GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER
Shobha Rao’s Girls Burn Brighter is an intense story of survival and sisterhood. And so much more. Set in India against a backdrop of a strict caste system, arranged marriages, and harsh poverty, the two main characters of Rao’s poetic story develop an unlikely friendship that proves to be an…
All writing
Read more
The Purity Myth – A Brief Review of the Documentary
The Purity Myth (2011) – Jessica Valenti’s documentary (based on her 2009 book of the same name) unraveling the myth that virginity is the ultimate measure of a woman’s character. Not only does abstinence-only education not work but it actually can do some major damage to a girl’s sense of agency…