Tag: Women

• A List of Badass Women

  Today’s reading list is a roundup of badass women–but what does “badass” mean exactly? These are women who don’t conform to the norms that have been set out for women as a whole. They may seem intimidating or–that worst of all literary sins–unlikable. These women follow their own path, make sometimes questionable choices, risk screwing…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 10, 2020

  Notebook, Reading

  Alyson Hagy, Badass women, Books, Carmen Maria Machado, Hallie Butler, Leni Zumas, Madeline Miller, Margaret Atwood, Megan Hunter, Naomi Alderman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Reading list, Women, Women characters, Women writers

• Reading angry women

  “I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger … for most of my life.” – Audre Lord “Once upon a time / I had enough anger in me to crack crystal” – Kiki Petrosino “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair /…

  Shannon Turlington

  August 1, 2018

  Notebook, Reading

  A Room of One’s Own, Anger, Angry women, Audre Lord, Bad Feminist, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Claire Messud, Come Closer, Feminist fiction, Her Body and Other Parties, Jean Rhy, Joanna Russ, July 2018, Kiki Petrosino, Laurie Penny, Leslie Jamison, Margaret Atwood, Men Explain Things to Me, metoo, Naomi Alderman, NNedi Okorafor, Quotes, Reading list, Rebecca Solnit, Recommended Reading, Roxane Gay, Sara Gran, Sylvia Plath, The Female Man, The Power, The Robber Bride, The Woman Upstairs, The Yellow Wallpaper, Virginia Woolf, Who Fears Death, Wide Sargasso Sea, Women, Women writers

• The feminist dystopia…

  I have posted a survey of feminist dystopian visions. I hope you enjoy.

  Shannon Turlington

  March 10, 2016

  Asides

  Dystopia, Feminism, Feminist dystopias, Reading list, Women, Women writers

• Great writing for weekend reading…

  Here’s a roundup of great writing found on the Internet in recent days… If you are squee-ing over the return of The X-Files like I am: The Nostalgic Science Fiction of The X-Files (Joshua Rothman @ The New Yorker) This Is the Hollowed-Out World that Outrage Culture Has Created (Ryan Holiday @ Observer) How to Raise a Creative Child. Step…

  Shannon Turlington

  February 12, 2016

  Notebook

  Adam Grant, Creativity, Erasure, Joshua Rothman, Literary Hub, New Yorker, Observer, Outrage culture, Parul Sehgal, Rebecca Solnit, Ryan Holiday, Subvert the dominant paradigm, Women, X-Files

• Imagining a world without men…

  I have have posted a survey of feminist utopian visions. Hope you enjoy.

  Shannon Turlington

  February 3, 2016

  Asides

  Feminism, Feminist utopias, Reading list, Utopias, Women, Women writers

• Recommended Reading: Daughter of Fortune

  Recommended this week: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. Set against the backdrop of the mad rush to California in search of gold, Allende reveals history through the eyes of the people who lived it but don’t usually get to tell the story: women and non-whites. She creates a diverse and three-dimensional world that feels both…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 21, 2016

  Reading

  Adventure, Daughter of Fortune, Historical fiction, Isabel Allende, Modern classics, Women

• Ta-Nehesi Coates on Bill Cosby…

  In fact, there is no real difference in claiming that a woman in an unmarried man’s hotel room forgoes the right to her body, and asserting that a black boy wearing a hoodie forgoes the right to his. Brutality is brutality, and it always rests on a bed of lies. Piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates in…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 12, 2016

  Notebook

  Bill Cosby, Sexual violence, Stories we tell, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, Women

• 12 Historical Women Who Gave No F*cks

  These are just some of the women who, historically speaking, didn’t give a single fuck. They are my heroes. 2016: the year of not giving a fuck. Source: 12 Historical Women Who Gave No F*cks

  Shannon Turlington

  January 12, 2016

  Notebook

  Buzzfeed, Giving no f*cks, History, Women

• Subvert the dominant paradigm: link roundup

  Here’s a roundup of online reading I’ve been doing lately around issues fo diversity, gender equality, and culture change. Enjoy! Why gender equality is good for everyone — a very interesting TED talk by Michael Kimmel. Twofer from the New York Times this Sunday — when can women stop looking perfect? (hint: now) and it’s payback time…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 11, 2016

  Notebook

  Angry White Men, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Atlantic, Basic guaranteed income, Brigid Schulte, Conference panels, Daily Life, Diversity, Emma Paling, Feminism, Gender equality, Harper’s, Huffington Post, Jennifer Weiner, Judith Shulevitz, Lauren Bacon, Laurie Penny, Michael Kimmel, Motherhood, New Stateman, Normalizing, Pinup calendars, Quartz, Rebecca Solnit, Sexism, Shonda Rhimes, Star Wars, Subvert the dominant paradigm, TED Talks, Television, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Women, Work

• Rebecca Solnit, fast becoming my new hero

  Rebecca Solnit on books no woman should read: “The list made me think there should be another, with some of the same books, called 80 Books No Woman Should Read, though of course I believe everyone should read anything they want. I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly…

  Shannon Turlington

  December 7, 2015

  Notebook

  Masculinity, Reader’s Corner, Reading, Rebecca Solnit, Women