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So you want to become an intersectional feminist… but how?
Want to explore intersectional feminism or deepen your understanding? You don’t have to start from scratch—activists and movements have been paving the way for years. Here are 13 powerful reads recommended by the @FEMINIST team to add to your libraries!
Author Feature: Raquel Willis
Author Raquel Willis is sharing her journey in activism and self-discovery as a Black trans woman through her debut memoir, The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation. FEMINIST sat down with Willis to learn more about her inspiring journey towards collective liberation.
Author feature: Clara Burstrom
Clara Burstom is a Canadian author who is raising awareness about sexual violence through her recent memoir, The Six Percent: A Memoir on the Aftermath of Violence. By sharing her own experience with domestic violence, Burstrom sheds light on re-victimization and trauma in the justice system and explores why only 6% of survivors report to the police in Canada.
Founder Feature: Anina von Haeften - Farm to People
“Empowering our community with transparency about food sources has always been a core value for us. We believe in providing our customers with valuable insights into the origins of their food, enabling them to make informed choices about where they invest their food dollars.” - Farm to People
Latina artist feature: Angie Quintanilla Coates
Angie Quintanilla Coates is a self-taught artist and illustrator whose bold and colorful designs bring the same vibrancy to an upcycled Listerine bottle that they do to a pair of Dr. Martens. Her art often juxtaposes a bright and cheery color palette with earnest socio-political statements in ways that have caught the eyes of the Human Rights Campaign and the United Nations.
Author Feature: Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah
Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah is an author, designer, educator, and founder of Making the Body a Home, an e-learning platform with resources for those seeking healing from racial trauma.
Author Feature: Emily Ladau
Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, storyteller, and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street to educate children about her life with a physical disability.
Author Feature: Aja Barber
Aja Barber, writer, stylist, and consultant, work aims to tackle the ideas behind privilege, wealth inequality, racism, feminism, colonialism and how to fix the fashion industry with all these things in mind.
Aja’s new book, Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism, is a true testament to this mission as it explores the intersections of sustainability and the fashion landscape.
Author Feature: Lara Parker
Lara Parker is a writer, editor, and author of Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics. She began writing in college around the time of her diagnosis with endometriosis and “hasn’t stopped writing about her vagina since.”