The Anger Advantage: The Surprising Benefits of Anger and How It Can Change a Woman’s Life by Deborah Cox, Karin H. Gender, Emotion, and the Family by Leslie Brody The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth.” Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved. It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is rational thought and irrational pain. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. “Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. Working from the premise that rage can lead to meaningful change, she wrote the chapter “A Rage of Your Own” with specific, applicable ways to understand your anger and put it to work. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women’s Suffrage Movement by Marjorie Spruill WheelerĪt the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance-a New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuireĬhemaly synthesized years of research and feminist thinking to create the useful resource that Rage Becomes Her is. she acknowledges/addresses and unpacks her own privilege, and white privilege, specifically the privileges of white feminists, especially during the Me Too movementĮloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper she put different theorists in conversation with each other to make her points Traister pays credit to Black women activists she does not gloss over their work in any way (like other books I’ve read/DNF’d) She wrote a section about the #MeToo movement, and connected it to the underlying corruption in the patriarchal system that built and runs the U.S. She takes us through the experiences of many women, herself included, around this point in time. In Good and Mad, Traister examines how women’s rage has worked as fuel for years in politics, particularly around and right after the 2016 election. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism by Audre Lorde Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. On Intersectionality: The Essential Writings of Kimberlé Crenshaw by Kimberlé Crenshawīlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins To think about it systemically and collectively, but never to diminish the import of the trauma.” “Real radicalism implores us to tell the whole ugly truth, even when it is inconvenient. “Feminism can give us a common language for thinking about how sexism, and racism, and classism work together to fuck shit up for everybody.” She also breaks through negative stereotypes and fallacies about the Black community by using hard facts and personal anecdotes interspersed throughout the book. She goes in depth to show how rage and feminism can be used as tools for meaningful change. This collection of essays examines the multiple intersections of race, class, gender, mental health, sexuality, religion, and politics. Through dissecting and analyzing political and cultural events with as much dexterity as she examines her own life, Cooper centers Black feminism in Eloquent Rage. Rather than continue this list of things to be angry about right now, here are some books that discuss rage and how it can be used as a tool: Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper All in the midst of a pandemic that government leaders seem to not take very seriously. More than 600 migrant children separated from their family at the border are unable to be reunited with their parents because the government cannot find them. A supreme court justice was rush-appointed a week before the 2020 election, and is now affecting decisions that impact us all. He is making a peaceful presidential transition difficult. More white women voted for Donald Trump this time around than in 2016. Editors Note: To learn more about what you can do to help secure the Senate in the run-off Georgia races, we highly recommend visiting and/or donating to New Georgia Project, Asian American Advocacy Fund, Latino Community Fund Georgia, GALEO or the amazing Fair Fight Action.
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