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orcelito · 29 days ago

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Man I wish I had more time to thoroughly go thru this book before my meeting. So the book I had to read that was assigned by my professor is Half the Sky by Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Which is a frankly kind of grueling read, bc of how heavy its content is. Detailing the horrors that women have faced around the world in explicit detail. Definitely made me more aware of a lot of things though.

The 2nd book for this meeting, my choice of book, is Critical Race Feminism (2nd edition), a collection of essays organized by Adrian K. Wing that discusses various problems faced by women of color. I just finished reading the first essay and was genuinely invested in it, which makes me really wanna read the rest of it... but there are also 40 some essays in this, and I am NOT reading all of those in an hour. So I'm gonna have to cherry pick and skim a lot to get an overall impression prior to my appointment with my professor.

I do, however, own this book. I bought it at a used bookstore for this class, but it's still Mine. So I can come back to it and finish it on my own time, after all of this is done. I really would like to do so. I think it would be really enlightening.

#speculation nation #the first essay was talking about how black women struggle raising discrimination claims in the law #bc the law paints discrimination on the axes of gender-based or race-based. not both.#so intersectional problems get pushed to the side. black women forced to choose one or the other.#but ALSO black women (simply because they are black And women) are judged unable to properly represent women or black people #because their experiences are not universal to the women's experience (seen by default as white women's experience)#or to the black experience (seen by default as black men's experience)#because black women experience Both things they are seen as not relatable to the whole of either side.#stuff like that. one of those things where reading about it i very much am not surprised by it #but it's also not something i had really been aware of prior.#it also has essays regarding latina muslim and native american struggles. of a variety of topics.#overall i just think itll be a wonderful read for gaining insight into these things.#a little dated. it's from 2003. but society has not progressed Near as much as we'd like in just the past 2 decades.#so it's doubtlessly still relevant overall.#so. yeah. cant read all of it rn. but i will in time. it seems like it'll be very worth it.

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