Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Disobedient bodies don’t just look a certain way, they act.”

Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri

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Best for: All those impacted by Western beauty standards. In a nutshell: The way the West defines beauty (‘entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism’) isn’t something to aspire to, and it is holding women back. Worth quoting: “How might we possibly reconcile the reality of the joys and pleasures we can find in our bodies, and in rituals of beautification…with the age-old and sometimes fraught feminist discourses, and the justified pushback against an overemphasis on our looks as not only a drag on […]

Different Perspective on Anti-Racism Work

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri

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Best for: White people looking for perspectives on the best ways we can effectively dismantle white supremacy and the institutions connected to it. In a nutshell: Author Dabiri shares her thoughts on where some of the current anti-racism focus is misdirected, and offers alternatives. Worth quoting: “What we do require here is an understanding, not so much of an intersectionality of identities, but an intersectionality of issues.” “My fear is that much of the anti-racist literature is an iteration of the same process of maintaining […]



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