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Black Feminism Expressed

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

February 15, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

Should be clear from the beginning as Dr. Brittney Cooper is in her book: this is a book written by a black woman for black women. It’s diametric opposite target is a white guy like me. I knew that going in but you should know that as well. That being said, most bestselling books, even non-fiction essay collections, are targeted to white men. But white men can’t teach other white men about Black women, Black feminism, etc. I’ve appreciated Dr. Brittney Cooper’s work from afar, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: Black Feminism, Dr. Brittney Cooper, eloquent rage, essays

Jake's CBR13 Review No:24 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: Black Feminism, Dr. Brittney Cooper, eloquent rage, essays ·
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Pleasure Activism

Love what you do, how you do it, and the body you do it in

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor)

February 3, 2021 by zinka Leave a Comment

Woof. I have been reading a lot of really amazing critical work this year and a lot of it has been just for fun. Also, a lot of it makes me feel like my brain is exploding but in a way that feels really really good to me, and I think Adrienne Maree Brown would approve.   Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by Adrienne Maree Brown, is a collection of essays, interviews, and other writing by Brown as well as a series of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: activism, Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor), Black Feminism, critical theory, culture, essays, feminism, interviews, pleasure, sex, somatic theory

zinka's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: activism, Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor), Black Feminism, critical theory, culture, essays, feminism, interviews, pleasure, sex, somatic theory ·
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Everything Sucks and Here’s Why

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion by Jia Tolentino

February 1, 2021 by dsbs42 3 Comments

Trick Mirror is a collection of nine essays by millennial writer and cultural critic Jia Tolentino. And these are ESSAYS. At times, I felt like I was reading a succession of a particularly insightful and eloquent student’s final papers. Thoroughly researched and vaguely connected by the theme of the line between introspection and narcissism, the essays examine everything from the ecstasy of the highs brought on by religion and drugs, the wedding industry, rape on college campuses (her alma mater of UVA in particular), her […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: essays, Jia Tolentino

dsbs42's CBR13 Review No:5 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: essays, Jia Tolentino ·
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cover of wow, no thank you

Wow, Thanks Samantha

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

January 29, 2021 by Nannerbears 2 Comments

I think Samantha Irby and I could be friends, at least based on the essays in this book. Her frank style and realness is endearing and I felt truly understood by a person I don’t know. Wow, No Thank You is a collection of humor essays, and it is also a collection of truth. We’re really all so very tired, aren’t we? And isn’t everything we’re doing mostly exhausting and really we’d rather not be doing? Samantha Irby tells it like it is and delights […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor Tagged With: essays, humor, LGBTQIA, Samantha Irby

Nannerbears's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Comedy/Humor · Tags: essays, humor, LGBTQIA, Samantha Irby ·
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Stick with the pieces; they’re long but worth it.

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

December 17, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Jia Tolentino has put together a collection of essays that span from modern womanhood to the Internet. The essays cover a myriad of topics, yet Tolentino found a way throughout all of her essays to find some throughlines. At the end of the collection, I felt that I had read a full complete collection despite the huge swath of topics. Tolentino very, very clearly sees many problems in the world and is able to articulate those issues clearly. She makes connections between problems in this […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: essayist, essays, Jia Tolentino

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:43 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: essayist, essays, Jia Tolentino ·
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