Een leeslijst van \u00e9\u00e9n mens is mijn algoritme voor ‘wat wordt het volgende boek?’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You Belong<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Sebene Selassie (This might be my fave book of the year; it\u2019s a tie between it and\u00a0Caste<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Isabel Wilkerson.) Wie is Kelly Diels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n ‘I admit, I\u2019m not Generation X or Y. I\u2019m Generation O,\u00a0for Oprah. Oprah says\u00a0use your life<\/u>\u00a0and I take it to heart.’ \u2013\u00a0Kelly Diels<\/p>\n\n\n\n [Van deze lijst heb ik \u00e9\u00e9n boek van A tot Z gelezen, Finite and Infinite Games van James P. Carse. Herinnering aan dat boek: in het leven draait het om het spelen van het oneindige spel, dat geen winnaar kent, geen duidelijke spelregels, waar je geen rol speelt, waarbij het hier en nu is. Ik wil dit spel graag spelen, nu een boek van die lijst lezen, vergeet prompt dat ik dat kan doen, hier onder de boom, dat ik mijn onrust over al het vermeende andere (straks, gisteren, ginds) terzijde kan schuiven. Om nu een boek van die lijst te leze hoef ik <\/em>niet uit mijn stoel te komen. Naar Caste zou ik kunnen luisteren terwijl ik naar de wolken staar, waar ik vliegtuigen hoor maar niet zie (als een waarschuwing, een roep tussen zilveren vogels). Caste is ‘required reading for all of humanity’ volgens Oprah \u2013 al zie ik vanuit mijn ooghoek The warmth of other suns lonken van dezelfde auteur. Ik duw uiteindelijk op de knop voor You belong, een even verre sprong in het onbekende. Met Bren\u00e9 Brown heb ik Jungiaans schaduwwerk te doen, ik word plaatsvervangend nerveus als ik haar trillende stem hoor, ik hoor twijfel \u2013 en juist over Brown is Kelly Diels lyrisch. Oprah daarentegen is mijn heldin: ze verstopt autosleutels onder de stoel van iedereen in het publiek. Haar spirituele hulp is down to earth. Ze verzamelt mensen. Ze voelt niet de behoefte iets ‘wetenschappelijk’ te bewijzen. Geen ‘research shows’. Ze verspreidt joy.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Een leeslijst van \u00e9\u00e9n mens is mijn algoritme voor ‘wat wordt het volgende boek?’ You Belong\u00a0by Sebene Selassie (This might be my fave book of the year; it\u2019s a tie between it and\u00a0Caste\u00a0by Isabel Wilkerson.)Radical Belonging\u00a0by Lindo Bacon (SO GOOD)Unapologetic Eating\u00a0by Alissa Rumsey (I had an advance copy; it comes out in February; it\u2019s TERRIFIC.Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693,1176,1790],"tags":[4572,4570,4219,4220,4571,4127,4573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67310"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67325,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67310\/revisions\/67325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Radical Belonging<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Lindo Bacon (SO GOOD)
Unapologetic Eating<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Alissa Rumsey (I had an advance copy; it comes out in February; it\u2019s TERRIFIC. I highly recommend pre-ordering it)
We Will Not Cancel Us<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by adrienne maree brown
Conflict is Not Abuse<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Sarah Schulman (re-read it; one of my fave biz books and it\u2019s not even a biz book. This book got me through a personal hell a few years ago. I think it\u2019s noteworthy that adrienne maree brown cites it in her book\u00a0We Will Not Cancel Us<\/em><\/strong>.)
What You Do is Who You Are<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Ben Horowitz. (I LOVED THIS BOOK. Earlier this year, I wrote that I was frustrated by Simon Sinek\u2019s book\u00a0Leaders Eat Last\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>because I think he has a privilege bias. He writes\u00a0anecdotally<\/em>\u00a0about the leadership and courage showed by mothers, for example, but only formalizes those specific tactics into a thesis when he can attribute them to a Marine Corp General. Horowitz\u2019s book is the opposite of that \u2014 and the antidote. In particular, he profiles the extraordinary leadership practices of Toussaint Louverture, who led the revolt against slavery in Haiti \u2014 and shows us how to apply those lessons to our entrepreneurship and organizational stewardship.)
What Can a Body Do?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Sara Hendren
Ruined by Design<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Mike Monteiro
Zucked<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Roger McNamee
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Brian Merchant
Bad Blood<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by John Carreyrou
Disrupt-Her<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Mikki Agarawal (couldn\u2019t finish it. In fact, I couldn\u2019t even force myself to read past the first chapter.)
Essential Essays<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Adrienne Rich (h\/t Dr. Kimberley B. George\u00a0for putting it in my field of view)
Community Organizing<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Joyce McKnight and Joanna McKnight Plumber
Capital<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Thomas Piketty (honestly, I just skimmed it and looked at the graphs)
Option B<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Sheryl Sandberg
Anti-Diet<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Christy Harrison
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by bell hooks (I re-read this one every couple of years. Essential.)
Bowling Alone<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Robert D. Putnam
Newsjacking<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by David Meerman Scott
Zora and Langston<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Yuval Taylor (I read biographies and correspondences of friendships between cultural luminaries to learn how they helped each other rise \u2014 and, in some cases, tore each other down. Trashing and \u201ccancel culture\u201d is not new.)
The Feminist Memoir Project<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow (I read this at the same times I was reading Betty Friedan\u2019s memoir, below. Again: trying to learn from the lived experiences of the luminaries who went before us.)
It Changed My Life<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Betty Friedan (I went into this one with a chip on my shoulder about Second Wave Feminism in general and Friedan in particular \u2014 and came out with a way better understanding of the explicit politicking and huge gains and sacrifices that were made. Friedan was an expert organizer and politicker. Respect. And again: trashing, horizontal violence, professional jealousy and cancel culture are NOT new; and Friedan did not exactly abstain, to say the least.)
The Shock Doctrine<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Naomi Klein
Girl, Stop Apologizing<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Rachel Hollis (I read Hollis\u2019 books as research and a case example of The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. Still, I have to admit that even though I am profoundly exasperated with her obliviousness to white privilege, fat phobia and sructural oppression, I think the structure and voice of Hollis\u2019 first book,\u00a0Girl Wash Your Face<\/em><\/strong>, is stellar. She also fought her publisher and threatened to sue them if they deleted chapter about love and gay rights. So, respect. But this second book? I couldn\u2019t get through it.)
Didn\u2019t See That Coming<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Rachel Hollis (I was researching, stop judging me.)
Reclaiming Our Space<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Feminista Jones. (If you want to know how to do social media for self-promotion, culture-making and movement-making, watch Feminista Jones. She IS a master class.)
I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Wasn\u2019t)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Brene Brown. (I hadn\u2019t read this older book. I wish I had, way earlier. It\u2019s way more explicitly grounded in social and structural context than her later books. In my groups, I teach people that when you \u201ctoggle out\u201d and see the big social picture, your shame dissolves. Having a structural analysis releases you from shame that\u2019s not yours to carry, and frees you to do what you need to do, on your terms. In this book, Brown calls that having \u201ca critical consciousness\u201d and stresses how important it is to getting free of shame.
The Gifts of Imperfection<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Brene Brown. (I mean, I\u2019d read the phone book if Brene Brown wrote it.)
Everything is Figureoutable<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Marie Forleo
Untamed<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Glennon Doyle. (This book put food on the tables of independent and feminist-owned bookstores during a pandemic. RESPECT.)
Resilience: The Life Saving Art of Story<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Michelle Auerbach
PHD by Published Work<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Susan Smith (this is A Thing!!!!!!!)
Becoming<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Michelle Obama
Right Wing Women<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Andrea Dworkin
The Audacity to Be Queen<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Gina DeVee (couldn\u2019t finish it. My time was better spend writing this blog post, ‘Nope, Queen is Not A Feminist Business Model’.)
Patriarchy Stress Disorder<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Valerie Rein
Caste<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Isabel Wilkerson
Decolonize First<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Ta7tal\u00edya Michelle Nahanee
Finite and Infinite Games<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by James P. Carse
We\u2019re Still Right and They\u2019re Still Wrong\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by James Carville
Buck Up, Suck Up, . . . and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by James Carville
Culture Warlords<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Talia Levin
You Were Born for This<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by Chani Nicholas. (Strangely, my copy has gone missing. Coincidentally, my 14 year old is explaining planetary conjunctions to me and needs to know everyone\u2019s time of birth.)
Accounting for Slavery<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Caitlin Rosenthal
The Art of Effective Facilitation<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0edited by Lisa M. Landreman
Inviting Transformation<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Sonja K. Foss
It\u2019s About Damn Time<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Arlan Hamilton
The Feminist Handbook<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Joanne Bagshaw
Dead Blondes and Bad Mother<\/em><\/strong>s by Sady Doyle
Rules for Radicals<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Saul Alinsky
The Prince<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Machiavelli. (I still can\u2019t figure out if it\u2019s a handbook for how to seize power or a map of everything that\u2019s wrong with oppressive societies.)
Anti-Social\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by Andrew Marantz
Me and White Supremacy<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Layla Saad
Remembered Rapture<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by bell hooks
Blueprint for Revolution<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Sr\u0111a Popovi\u0107 (<\u2014\u2013If you want to figure out how to create political change, this is a MUST READ.)
Thick<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Tressie Cottom McMillan<\/p>\n\n\n\n