#eloquent rage

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"When you go for months or years without a dude (or any love interest) ever noticing you, you can begin to feel invisible. And feminist principles about how the patriarchy has made us beholden to beauty culture do nothing to assuage the desire we all have to be seen and affirmed.” ― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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“When I talk about owning eloquent rage as your superpower, it comes with the clear caveat that not everyone is worth your time or your rage.” ― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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“I give the side eye to any Black woman who doesn’t have other Black women friends, to any woman who is prone to talk about how she relates better to men than to women, to anyone who goes on and on about how she “doesn’t trust females.” If you say fuck the patriarchy but you don’t ride for other women, then it might be more true that the patriarchy has fucked you, seducing you with the belief that men care more about your well-being than women do.” ― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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“If you say fuck the patriarchy but you don’t ride for other women, then it might be more true that the patriarchy has fucked you, seducing you with the belief that men care more about your well-being than women do. It isn’t true.” ― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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“But part of what I’ve been trying to say is that rage can help us build things, too. The clarity that comes from rage should also tell us what kind of world we want to see, not just what kind of things we want to get rid of.” ― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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“White privilege works by making the advantages white people have invisible while making the supposedly 'poor' choices of people of color hypervisible.”

― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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“We wonder why young men hate women and, sometimes, the sad truth is that their mamas and aunts and sisters act as an arm of the patriarchy by parroting the refrain that “girls simply can’t be trusted.” ― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

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Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh. It is the BEST feeling in the world when you're reading a book that you stumbled upon, and what's this? It's QUEER???? And queer mermaids? Oh, my heart, it bursts with love. But these are not your classic gentile mermaids, and I love them all the more for it. They spend most of their time as humans but honestly, still a great mermaid comic.

Rec! Trigger Warning for Body Dysphoria, Nakedness, Blood

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Britney Cooper. It's difficult to talk about books like this one because quite frankly, my opinion doesn't matter. What does matter, however, is this book, and I would suggest it to any socially conscious person out there as a must-read.

Definite Rec.

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke. I love memoirs. I love learning about something new. I always had a vague idea of Pan Am but never anything concrete, never any real info. This book hit all the spots for me as a memoir: informative and enjoyable. It set the background and tone for what happened with the people involved and the company.

I'd recommend it. It's not something I'd read twice but I think if you get enjoyment out of it just the once, then that's really all you need.

Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit by Colby Cedar Smith. THIS. This book is EXACTLY what I want from European immigrant stories. It seamlessly blended past and present, the story of her parents and her own, and I have fallen deeply, deeply in love with it. It's written in verse, but I ended up listening to it.

Absolute REC just for the way it WRECKED me.

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill. This one ended on the Did Not Finish list and isn't one of my kinder reviews. It felt like the best parts of the poetry had been dissected and posted on tumblr, and that the poems themselves lacked. The reason I did not finish, however, is because of the horribly triggering take on The Little Mermaid, specifically the line, "She learned to love the body she was in." I see what the author was trying to do, but I feel like the whole point of TLM was missed and I'm going to try not to launch into a rant here so I'll just end this review by saying hard pass.

Big Nope from me.