Ow, my aching feminism!

A running list of the books that I own in my Google books library, current as of 1/1/2021. My goal this year is to read at least 24 books outside of textbooks and re-reads. As I work through them, this is where I'll come to unpack everything - a kinda sorta virtual book club. A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance - Emma Gray A Little F'ed Up: Why Feminism is Not a Dirty Word - Julie Zeilinger All the Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism - Kira Cochrane Bad Feminist - Roxanne Gay Beyonce in Formation - Omise'eke Tinsley Can We All Be Feminists - June Eric-Udorie Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. - Viv Albertine Crafting with Feminism - Bonnie Burton Feminism and Pop Culture Feminism Is... - DK Feminism is for Everybody - Bell Hooks Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory - Mimi Marinucci Full Frontal Feminism - Jessica Valenti Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon Girl Zines: Making Media, Doin...

  My name is Renitta, though I commonly go by Reni; yes, that's what I look like most days (not pictured are the leggings and bare feet).  If you're here, there's a good chance that you already know me or have interacted with me, either in real life or through social media. Either way, welcome. And thank you. Full disclosure: there was a time in my life when I would have been offended to be called a feminist, but that's a another post for another day. It wasn't terribly long ago either... but again, another day. So why am I doing this? What does feminism mean to me ? *note: this is from a discussion piece on feminism for a course, but it still (and will probably always) applies. Feminism at its core is the notion of equality for all genders. People in popular society associate the word "feminism" with the concept of female superiority. For a while, I found myself offended by the association with even the word. In thinking about the effect that feminism has...

  I wrote this as a position piece in support of the fourth-wave feminist tendency toward what is known as "hashtag activism." Shared here because I wrote it and am proud of it, but also because this is relevant to riot grrrls both then and now. Edited and reposted 1/2/2021 because the formatting went all screwy. The content is still the same. Pinky promise. 03/09/2020 The feminism of the 1970s introduced us to the concept of “the personal is political. What does this mean for feminists in 2020? Like its predecessors, fourth wave feminism stresses personal freedom; it is “shaped less by a shared struggle against oppression than by a collective embrace of individual freedoms.” (Sheinin 2016). Feminism’s fourth wave is recognized as the period beginning in approximately 2008. It is motivated and influenced by social media. The prevalence of the Internet presented easy accessibility to feminist media at a global level. It is a continuation of the issues that were present and pre...