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Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti
If there was one book I could have the entire male population read, it would be Sex Object: A Memoir by Jessica Valenti. It is honest, undramatic, unromantic, and blameless about the objectification of females. As much as we want to bring our heads below our faces, cover the catcalling with our headphones, and clutch […]
MoreBorn A Crime by Trevor Noah
The South African apartheid government was a brutal and legal form of racism that reigned over the nation for fifty years. However, racism and hierarchical classification systems had existed from the first conquest in the fifteen hundreds. The confusing and complicated history of South Africa, is, for the most part unknown by many present-day students. […]
MoreThe Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer
I need to be completely and totally honest with you all about this memoir. I have read many memoirs, from celebrities about political figures, even the complex relationships and events surrounding the presidential election in the 1800s. This memoir here, however, is one of the most artful compositions I have read. I know a lot […]
MoreCitizen An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
My running method for describing this book is the pre-planet phase. The swirling clusters of a galaxy before the hands of fate ball the pastel dust into a planet, nature’s natural form of compression. Pink photo particles swirl into the bright red ambers of poetry and blue bubbles of prose, hunting each other until they […]
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