#sally deng

[like-i-need-a-hole-in-my-head]

Saw the illustration on the right by Sally Deng under an article entitled “The Trouble with Paradise” and immediately thought of Aaron Douglas’s “Into Bondage” (left). There’s something tickling my brain - a metaphor, an analogy, but it’s not forthcoming.

[elfin-blogg]

BİSMİLLAH☝️

ELHAMDÜLİLLAH 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala Muhammed ❣️

ALLAHIM BANA ZARAR DOKUNDU😓 SEN İSE MERHAMETLİLERİN EN MERHAMETLİSİSİN 🤲🥲 HÜZÜNLERİMİZİ MUTLULUĞA DÖNÜŞTÜR ALLAHIM 🤲 AMİN 🤲

SENİN AŞKINDAN BAŞKA KALBIME AŞIK NASİP ETME. SENDEN GAYRİSİNİ GÖRÜRSEN, KUDRETINLE ÇIKAR AL YA RABBİM 😢😢

SENSİN YÂR. SENDEN BAŞKA FANİ SEVGİ YARA OLUR GÖNLÜMDE. CANIM DA SENİN, MEKANDA SENİN ALLAHIM 🤲 ŞU NÂCİZ BEDENIM RUHUM SANA SANA TESLİM 🤲😢

BİSMİLLAH ☝️

ELHAMDÜLİLLAH 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala Muhammed ❣️

Kullarının insafına bırakma beni Allah'ım 🥺🤲 HÜKÜMDE SENİN HİKMET TE, HİDAYETTE, BENİ İSLAM LA ŞEREFLENDİRDİĞİN GİBİ, KALBİMDE Kİ İMANIMI DAIMİ KÂVİ EYLE🤲 NEFSİMİN KUDRET ELİNDE BULUNA NA YEMİN OLSUN Kİ ☝️ SENDEN GAYRI KAPIM YOKTUR ALLAHIM. KORUYAN DA SEN, TAKTİR EDEN DE. GÜZEL İKRAMINA " KADERINE GÖNLÜMÜ RAZI EYLE ALLAH'IM 🤲 ŞEYTAN ATIL BIRAKIPTA NEFSI GÜNAH İŞLETİRKEN, KALBİ SECDE EDEN KULLARINI, RAHMETIN LE BAĞIŞLA ALLAH'IM 🤲 ALLAHIM SENSIN RAHÎM, SENİN SELÂM🥲 BİZİ AFFETTİM DEDİĞİN KULLARININ ARASINA KAT YA RABBİM 🤲

ALLAHIM SENIN SEVGİNİ VER, SENİ SEVENLERİN SEVGISINİ, SEVDİKLERINLE DOST" CENNETE DEK ARKADAŞ EYLE 🤲 GÜLLERDEN GÜZELIMİZ PEYGAMBER EFENDİMİZ E KOMŞU EYLE 🤲

BİSMİLLAH ☝️

ELHAMDÜLİLLAH 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala seyyidina Muhammed in "ve alâ Ali seyyidina Muhammed 🤲☝️🥲

Allah katında hiç bir dua yoktur ki, Efendimize salavat getirilipte Allah'a ulaşmasın. Rabbim Gönlümüze Kabul ve Razı olacağın Güzel dualar İlhak eyle 🤲 EY MERHAMETLİLERİN EN MERHAMETLİSİ 🥲☝️ CEZANDAN, AZABINDAN, GAZABINDAN 😢AFFINA VE RIZANA MERHAMETİNE SIĞINIRIZ 🤲🥺❣️ SENDEN SANA SIĞINIRIZ ALLAH'IM 🤲 SANA OLAN KORKUMUZDA, SEVGİMİZDE DE GÜZEL BİR ÖLÇÜ VE DENGE NASİP EYLE 🤲 SENİN HİDAYETİN VE HİKMETİNLE BİZİ ŞEREFLENDİRDİĞİN GİBİ, SON NEFESTE HAYIRLI BİR ÖLÜMLE, İMANIMIZLA CANIMIZI ALARAK ŞEREFLİ İHLASLI İMANLI KULLARINDAN EYLE 🤲 ŞÜKREDİN Kİ NİMETİMİ ÜZERİNİZDE ÇOĞALTAYIM DİYE BUYURAN RABBİMİZ, BİZİDE ŞÜKREDEN KULLARINDAN KIL, KADERE İSYAN VE ŞİKAYET EDEN KULLARINSAK AFFET BİZİ, KADERİMİZE BİZİ SALAMETLE İMANLA, RAZI EYLE 🤲 AMİN 🤲 ECMAİN 🤲

Duamızın kabulü için ☝️

Ve bil'hassa ALLAH RIZASI İÇİN 🤲

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Elhamdülillahi Rabbil alemiyn.

Er-Rahmanirrahim.

Malî'ki'yev'middiyn.

İyyâ'ke'nağ'budu ve iyyâ' kenestain.

İh'dinas'sıradél' müstakiym.

Sirâdâl'leziyné en'ğam'te aleyhim.

Ğayril' mağ'dubi Âleyhim.

Véléd'daaaaaaaaal'liiiiiiiiiiinyn. ÂMİN 🤲

Allahümme Salli ala seyyidina Muhammed 🤲🥲🤲

Okuduğumuz Fatiha suresi ni Peygamber efendimiz in, Mübarek temiz pak, ruhuna, hediye ettik, kabul makbul, ve haberdar eyle Allah'ım 🤲🥲

Haslâten, İlk Peygamberden, Son mü'min kullarının arasında yaşayacak, ölecek, ölmüş olan, geçmiş ve gelecekte yaşayan, ve ölcek kullarının ruhlarına da, hediye ettik kabul eyle Allah'ım Amin 🤲

[ladyherenya]

A good month for reading! Despite November’s demands and deadlines, it didn’t turn into a repeat of last November (when I apparently didn’t have the headspace for reading) nor of some of 2022′s more stressful months (when I didn’t have the headspace for some of my favourite genres and instead mostly subsisted on contemporary romance).

Total: Ten novels (including two audiobooks), one novella and one picture book.

Still reading: The Swallows’ Flight by Hilary McKay, Naughty Dragons Try School! by Natalie Jane Prior and Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater.

My favourites: Sarah Morris Remembers (interesting, poignant and enjoyable), The Codebreaker’s Secret (vivid relationships and scenery) and Half a Soul (delightful and satisfyingly not fluffy).

I’d also recommend: Any of these, really -- if one likes their respective genres. (Some of them didn’t appeal so much to me but I’m chalking that up to a me-thing.)

Cover thoughts: I like the cover for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy.

Titles, authors, genres and ratings listed below, with links to my reviews on LibraryThing.

Miss Moriarty, I Presume? by Sherry Thomas. Sixth Charlotte Holmes mystery, following on from Murder on Cold Street. Set in Victorian England. 3☆

Sarah Morris Remembers by D.E. Stevenson (narrated by Patience Tomlinson). A coming-of-age novel about growing up in England the 30s and working in London during WWII. 3½☆

Ex Appeal by Cathy Yardley. Contemporary romance, same series as Love, Comment, Subscribe and Gouda Friends.

Naughty Dragons Make Trouble! by Natalie Jane Prior (illustrated by Simon Howe). Children's fantasy about fostering two dragons. 3½☆

Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell. Science-fiction. Military space opera with telepathy. 3½☆

Skyward: the story of female pilots in WWII by Sally Deng. Fictionalised-nonfiction picture book. 3½☆

The Codebreaker's Secret by Sara Ackerman. Historical mystery set in Hawaii, about a code breaker in 1943 and a journalist in 1965. 3½☆

Half a Soul by Olivia Atwater. Romantic regency fantasy. 3½☆

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers. Science-fiction novella about a robot and a tea monk. Sequel to A Psalm for the Wild-Built. 3☆

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade. Companion-sequel to Spoiler Alert and All the Feels. Fandom-y contemporary romance. 3☆

We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon. Young adult fiction about a summer working for her family's wedding business. 3☆

Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl. Romantic historical fiction set in a (fictional?) coastal English community. 3☆

[maudbachotet]

Mont-Saint-Martin

Je faisais pivoter le présentoir à cartes postales de la librairie, lorsque je découvris, noyée sous les « Bonnes fêtes ! » et les « Bonne année ! », cette illustration de la baie du Mont-Saint-Michel de l’artiste californienne Sally Deng. Le Mont-Saint-Michel. En plein dixième arrondissement de Paris.

Longtemps, l’enfant naïve que j’étais a cru que ce gros caillou surmonté d’une majestueuse cathédrale et d’un gonze doré terrassant un dragon en jupette et collants était de toutes les mers, de tous les océans. Pour ma défense, il faut dire que je ne quittais que rarement le petit village de quelques 450 âmes dans lequel j’ai, à ce jour, passé la majeure partie de ma courte vie et où je pouvais quotidiennement contempler la baie, le Mont et son voisin Tombelaine, tristement ignoré des touristes. La surprise fut grande lorsque pour la première fois je me retrouvais en Charente-Maritime à considérer, au beau milieu de cette étendue d’eau qui ne m’était pas familière, le belliqueux Fort Boyard – que j’avais pourtant probablement vu des centaines de fois à la télévision – en lieu et place de mon cher Mont (ou plutôt celui de ma grand-mère, Michèle ; autre croyance difficile à déloger de la tête d’une enfant). Non, franchement, ça n’avait pas la finesse de l’escalier de dentelle menant à l’archange que j’avais un jour pris grand soin d’observer, saisie de vertige, les yeux rivés sur les marches mollement gravies. J’écrivis sur-le-champ à mon grand-père que je voulais « revoir ma Normandie ». J’avais compris.

Et pourtant, bien des années plus tard, me voici tout à la fois sur le canal Saint-Martin et face au Mont-Saint-Michel, une pensée à l’esprit pour cette petite fille attirée mais effrayée par l’ailleurs, cherchant toujours de son regard inquiet un signe familier.

[dearmylona]

Ku coba tidur dulu masih ada sedikit waktu. Dah nanti ketemu dimimpi kita pelukan. Eh ga deng gamau janji takut ga ketemu dimimpi. Aku gasuka janjiin org. Takut gbs nepatin. Manatau dimimpi ku aku ketemu sally corita. Hahaha beda cerita 🫣

[tommyhrst]

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/sally-deng-illustration-070421

These illustrations from Sally Deng is a style I much prefer, detailed and they look to create an emotional pull to the viewer something I will wish to do within mine, they illustrate the activities going on in a more literal sense rather than being abstract, if I could use elements from all these artists in creating my own it would be very interesting.

[murmansea]

sally deng

[musesmilk]

SALLY DENG

This interview from 2019 featuring the brilliant Sally Deng is our last Muse’s Milk post. 

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Muse’s Milk: Tell us your story.

Sally Deng: I was born in Los Angeles and spent most of my life here. I always loved to draw and paint so after high school I applied to the Art Center College of Design. I was miraculously accepted and I’ve been following the trajectory set by that decision ever since. 

MM When given an illustration assignment, where do you begin? Can you discuss your art making process?

SD: If it is for an assignment, my process is pretty straightforward—thumbnails and then final artwork. If I am making art for myself, I enjoy just “going for it” without a real clear idea of where the final will end up. Experimenting and trusting my instincts have often led to me creating some of my favorite pieces. 

MM: What inspired Skyward? Is there something specific that sparked your interest in female pilots of WWII?

SD: I stumbled upon a black and white photo of Hazel Ying Lee, a female Chinese American pilot who flew during WWII. I didn’t know women were even allowed to fly for the government back then, much less a Chinese American woman. From there I just continued to accumulate more photos and stories of these US pilots. (I mean, how could I not?) Once my proposal to do a book was accepted, I extended my research to include female pilots from the UK and Russia.

MM: What do you want readers to know about you, as an artist and as a person?

SD: I’m sorry if I didn’t see your message on Instagram and I usually feel too awkward to respond a week after it was sent. 

MM: Do you have advice for students trying to find their illustration style?

SD: Don’t just look at illustration for inspiration and don’t think of creating a “style”. Styles come and go, focus on making work you’ll like and a coherent voice will naturally emerge. 

MM: Is there anything else you would like to add?

SD: Protect our National Parks.

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Maxwell McMaster & Sally Deng at Nucleus Portland.

Currently on view at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon are two exhibitions with brand new work by artists Maxwell McMaster and Sally Deng.

Maxwell McMaster’s “This is the Remix” is the first installment of his new works that explore the idea of recycle and rebirth. In the same spirt of Duchamp and "Readymade", or Kool Herc and "Break", Maxwell has created a new body of work infusing LP cover art and imposing his own signature style to celebrate these past relics while creating a unique collaboration across time.

Sally Deng’s “Impressions” is a new series of drawings about mountains and the ocean, based off of Sally's experiences of surfing, hiking and backpacking.

The exhibitions will be on view until May 29th, 2019.

Be sure to follow Supersonic Art on Instagram!

[implodingggg]

Sally Deng

[theillustrationconference]

Making Everything Work: An Interview with Josh Cochran, ICON11′s Stage Chair

Josh Cochran grew up in Taiwan and California. Based in Brooklyn, he works as an illustrator and muralist specializing in bright, dense, and conceptual work. He's received a bunch of awards, including a Grammy nomination for Best Packaging. He loves working on side projects and occasionally exhibits his work in galleries. Josh has a children's book set to be released early next year by Enchanted Lion.

What's your favorite memory from past ICON conferences?

I loved doing the stage at the last ICON in Detroit. It was way crazier and a lot more work than I expected, but I really enjoyed the challenge of figuring out how to make everything work. I got to meet a lot of really great illustrators and students who helped me make everything there in Detroit. It was kind of a dream!

Tell me about your practice!

My practice is somewhat of a mixed bag. I work on a bunch of different kinds of projects: from animation to murals to my current project, which is finishing up a children's book. Sometimes I feel a little scattered, but my interests are quite varied and I think it's really nice for my creativity to be able to work on different kinds of projects. I tend to feel a little restricted when I work on just one kind of project for a long period of time.

What is your studio/office space like?

I work out of a space in an old converted ketchup factory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. I share this space with some really talented illustrators and designers (Sam Weber, Dan Salmieri, John Custer, and Jim Datz). I've been fortunate to share this space with people I consider some of my closest friends and also be inspired by them on a daily basis. I've always tried to recreate the amazing creative experience I had at school and having a shared studio here in Brooklyn has definitely been a close second to that feeling.

What's your hometown and where do you currently live?

I consider Los Angeles my hometown. However, I've been living in Brooklyn for over ten years and it's starting to feel much more like home. Can I love two places at once??

Who are some of your favorite emerging creatives?

Alexa Lim Haas made one of the most beautiful short animated films I've seen in a long time (Agua Viva). To name a few peeps, I'm really into Molly Snee, Alicia Adamerovich, Ariel Davis, Claire Merchlinsky, Sally Deng, Leo Santamaria, AJ Dungo, Clarissa Liu, Jackson Epstein, Haleigh Mun, Keiko Nabila Yamazaki, and probably a bunch more that I'm forgetting right now! 

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Ban Shu Legend (2015)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama “Ban Shu Legend”  

【#乐游原 同款電視劇】 班淑傳奇 Ban Shu Legend EP 01 | Eng Sub（景甜，迪麗熱巴主演）

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7NteOkebI

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[pzilla]

hi! I organized this art show “Fierce Tidings: On Rage and Hope”  It features a bunch of really cool angry asians as well as some others from the Asian American and Asian Diasporic communities locally and abroad. Come check out the show, it’ll be at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago. March 31 - May 1, 2017 Featured artists include: Jenny Chan ( http://gooseberry-studio.com ) Nomi Chi ( @nomicheese ) Maggie Chiang ( @mcmintea ) Ana Cho (@anacho.made ) David T. Cho ( @davidtcho ) Sally Deng ( @sa.deng ) Grace Michiko Hamann ( @michiko_design ) Handa ( @handahanda ) Kyu Hwang ( @kyuhwang_ ) James Chia Han Lee ( @jameschleeart ) Tae Lee ( @taelien ) Trevor Shin ( @trevorshin ) Aram Han Sifuentes Katie So ( @katieso ) Waldia & Co. (Manuja Waldia) ( @manujawaldia ) Terry Yang ( @bafiayang ) For more info visit: http://faaim.org Stay tuned for more info about the artists and the pop up market event where we’ll be selling prints and other wares by the artists in the show and other awesome peeps! <3

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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

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You can tell a lot about a person by the kind of music they listen to. Put your favorite playlist/music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people! No skipping!

Tagged by @buckbuckley​ 💜 This is my A to Z playlist (i.e. my entire music library)

Dhadkan - Aksar Is Duniya Mein

Simon Curtis - Flesh

Sally Yeh - 200 Du (Crazy Rich Asians soundtrack)

Tamasha - Chali Kahani

Fuse ODG - T.I.N.A

Wicked - Dancing Through Life

Major Saab - Pyar Kiya to Nibhana

Marina - Better Than That

Parampara Tandon - Chhor Denge

Swet Shop Boys - Aaja

Well that was a mix, but I think this rather accurately represents me 😂

Tagging: @madamewriterofwrongs, @tawaifeddiediaz, @bieddiediaz, @diazchristopher, @dispatchereddie, @alkaysani, @fireinyourkiss, @yawningmicrobe, @novemberhush, @stagefoureddiediaz