In recent years, I’ve watched a very dear friend of mine undergo the experience of being someone no one knew to being someone Talked About Online, especially in feminist and political circles. She had been working as a writer for over a decade, slowly gaining an audience and finding her voice as a writer in the political sphere, when a well-known writer became one of her cheerleaders. It seemed like overnight, her star rose and famous people I followed on twitter were retweeting her […]

I know “white feminism” is usually used as a pejorative (and appropriately so) but in this case it is also a really good descriptor for what the book is about. It’s about feminism and white ladies who are feminist and their white lady feminist lives. I have a white lady feminist life. I think maybe I just miss the books I read last year about worlds so far removed from my own. This was a book I really understood well. Our primary protagonist, Greer, is […]