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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.Anti-fatness is everywhere...Categorized as:
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![Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price]()
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M...Categorized as:
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![The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher]()
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsModern culture is obsessed with identity.Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends--and yet, no historical phenomenon is its own cause. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of self...Categorized as:
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![Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde]()
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it...Categorized as:
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![Männer, Männlichkeit und Liebe by bell hooks]()
Männer, Männlichkeit und Liebe by bell hooks
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratings»Männer können nicht lieben, wenn ihnen die Kunst zu lieben nicht beigebracht wurde. Es ist nicht wahr, dass Männer sich nicht ändern wollen. Wahr ist, dass viele Männer Angst vor Veränderung haben. Um lieben zu können, müssen Männer imstande sein, sich von ihrem Wunsch zu verabschieden, andere zu beherrschen...Categorized as:
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![What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation by Matt Walsh]()
What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation by Matt Walsh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs this even a question?What is a woman? For months, Matt Walsh devoted nearly every waking hour to answering this simple question. Honestly, it’s a question he never thought he’d have to ask.But all of a sudden, way too many people don’t seem to know the answer... -
![The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha]()
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disabled. Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about the last two years of surviving COVID-19 as a disabled femme of color in an ableist world that isn’t interested in protecting disabled folks. They also discuss mutual aid and disabled joy in the face of isolation and discrimination... -
![Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian]()
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOur Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions—accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences...Categorized as:
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![White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao]()
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy... -
![Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates]()
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about.Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back...Categorized as:
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![Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy]()
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhile African Americans managed to emerge from chattel slavery and the oppressive decades that followed with great strength and resiliency, they did not emerge unscathed. Slavery produced centuries of physical, psychological and spiritual injury...Categorized as:
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![Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta]()
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrödinger’s cat.Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?Sand Talk provides a template for living...Categorized as:
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![The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates]()
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live... -
![Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt]()
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time, and its influence on contemporary race relations and criminal justice.We do not have to be racist to be biased. With a perspective that is scientific, investigative, and personal, Jennifer L...Categorized as:
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![Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare]()
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed.Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss...Categorized as:
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![You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix]()
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963... -
![Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti]()
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA clear and concise guide to the politics of post-Roe America, for readers eager to understand the attacks on our bodies and freedom—and to do something about itIn this, her most urgent book yet, New York Times–bestselling author Jessica Valenti dispels misinformation and cuts through the headline overwhelm to illuminate the full-scale assault conservative lawmakers have launched on women’s...Categorized as:
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![Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder]()
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story of Dr. Jim O’Connell, a man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city’s unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streets—the “rough sleepers...Categorized as:
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![Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking by Julia Bascom]()
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking by Julia Bascom
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Loud Hands Project, a project of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, was funded through IndieGoGo to create an anthology titled Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking. Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking is a collection of essays written by and for Autistic people...Categorized as:
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![Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama]()
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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![Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks]()
Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the public discourse on race.Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance... -
![Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck]()
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core... -
![For the Love of Men by Liz Plank]()
For the Love of Men by Liz Plank
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For the Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world while also exploring how being a man has evolved.In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls... -
![Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown]()
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work...Categorized as:
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![Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown, Hess Love]()
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown, Hess Love
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast : A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false...Categorized as:
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![I Will Die on This Hill by Meghan Ashburn, Jules Edwards]()
I Will Die on This Hill by Meghan Ashburn, Jules Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere is a significant divide between autistic advocates and parents of autistic children. Parents may feel attacked for their lack of understanding, and autistic adults who offer insight and guidance are also met with hostility and rejection... -
![Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community by Laura Erickson-Schroth]()
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community by Laura Erickson-Schroth
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as separate concepts, and we have learned that sex (traditionally thought of as physical or biological) is as variable as gender (traditionally thought of as social)...Categorized as:
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![The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan]()
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss—or avoid discussing—the problems and politics of sex...Categorized as:
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![How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert]()
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals, we need a very pragmatic approach...Categorized as:
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![Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love by Mia Violet]()
Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love by Mia Violet
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being a trans woman - from bullying and botched coming out attempts to self-acceptance and love - whilst exploring the inaccuracies of trans representation and confront what the media has gotten wrong...Categorized as:
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