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Payden gets a party

Payden’s Pronoun Party by Blue Jaryn

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Payden has always used he/him pronouns, until one day Payden realizes those words might not fit. Payden’s parents promise to throw a big party to introduce whatever pronouns Payden chooses–but which pronouns are the best match? This is all you need to know about Payden’s Pronoun Party.  We explore pronouns the different people in Payden’s life use, they have a big party for Payden when the ones that fit are found, and The End. Gender exploration has never been so … done before. Now, if […]

Yes All Women

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It’s been a long time since a book I’ve read doubled as a personal journal, but my copy of Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me is about as marked up as my high school copy of Emerson/Thoreau’s Nature/Walking. The book, a collection of essays about the individual and shared experiences of womanhood and issues of gender, power, and feminism, takes its name from the lead essay in which Solnit narrates an infuriating experience of an older gentleman oldwhitemansplaining one of her own books to […]

Probably not THE definitive Steinem, but good nonetheless

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3.5 stars Gloria Steinem is a giant in American feminism, and someone I only truly know about from secondary sources. She’s written a lot, and I had read none of it until her most recent work, My Life on the Road. Regarding her own life, it’s not comprehensive: it’s a series of vignettes from, appropriately, encounters she had while on the road. It does start with a bit of background into her fascinating childhood, which saw her family endlessly traveling from place to place, driven […]

I wanted more from this academic book about the fluidity of male sexuality.

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I picked this up on a whim after a friend reviewed it on Goodreads, and I saw that my library actually had a copy. It was a really interesting reading experience, and overall, I thought Ward did a nice job explaining her points, but I also felt that it was a case of her having opinions (that are maybe right) but not enough evidence to back any of it up. She takes all these incidences and cultural stories and tries to work them into a […]



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