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By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 8 years ago

Feministing Reads: What should we read this year?

My favorite part of working for Feministing–outside of hanging with some of the raddest ladies I know–is editing the Feministing Reads column. Our reviews are amazing (shout out to Sam, Sheila, and Ava–and Abigail and Chanelle, who you’ll be hearing from soon). Through them, I’ve learned about so many books from independent presses that I would have missed otherwise. And, after publishing a book this last year with a small political press, I know that reviews can make a meaningful difference for authors who don’t have PR budgets to fill the New York Times with ads. That’s a particularly big deal for women, queers, people of color doing radical work that doesn’t land a big advance.

Anyway, all of that is to say: I want to make sure we’re finding and reviewing a wide range of powerful new work from a diverse group of powerful writers. For that, I need your help. Book worms, authors, small publishers, self-publishers: what should we read this year? Let us know in the comments.

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Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com.

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