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18 Feminist Reads to Keep You Fighting

If the most recent episode of Scandal made you swallow back a sob, if you can scarcely skim the news anymore without searching for punching bag costs online, if even the goddess that is Samantha Bee fails to make you laugh right now, you are not alone.
Many of us thought we would be watching our first female president's much-lauded inauguration this month, after more than 200 years of male presidents. Instead of making history, we are pedaling wildly backwards, stripping women of autonomy over their own bodies and silencing voices that were finally starting to break free. Our knuckles may be frayed and bleeding from slamming against that glass ceiling so many times, but it isn't time for bandages; the fight is only beginning.
These 18 feminist reads fit every occasion and will remind you of what women fought for before us — and incite you to keep fighting for equality and for intersectionality.
1 Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

2 We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3 Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

4 Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

5 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

6 The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

7 Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

8 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

9 How to Win at Feminism by Reductress

10 Sister Outsider by Audre Lord

11 The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

12 Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

13 The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf

14 You Don't Have to Like Me by Alida Nugent

15 Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks

16 Shrill by Lindy West

17 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

18 The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
