Introduction to Activism: <br>A Reading List

Introduction to Activism:
A Reading List

Moms Demand Action's Founder Shannon Watts Shares the Books that Taught Her to Organize

By Shannon Watts | June 27, 2019

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

On Motherhood, Fertility, and Gendered Readings of Women's Books

By Alix Ohlin | June 26, 2019

I Read One Hundred Books<br> Just to Write One

I Read One Hundred Books
Just to Write One

Heather O'Neill on the Compulsive Joy of Endless Research

By Heather O'Neill | June 26, 2019

Confronting My Well Educated, Father-of-Six, White Supremacist Troll

Confronting My Well Educated, Father-of-Six, White Supremacist Troll

Some Trolls Are More Dangerous Than Others

By Ginger Gorman | June 26, 2019

Catherine Chung on Letting the Muse Tell Her Own Story

Catherine Chung on Letting the Muse Tell Her Own Story

On Reading Women with Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett

By Reading Women | June 26, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

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The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

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How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

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Remembering Merce Cunningham and Radical Dance in Postwar Paris

Remembering Merce Cunningham and Radical Dance in Postwar Paris

Marianne Preger-Simon on Dancing with an Icon

By Marianne Preger-Simon | June 26, 2019

Karen Stefano on the Aftermath of Sexual Assault

Karen Stefano on the Aftermath of Sexual Assault

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | June 26, 2019

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

Jack Parlett on the Storied Legacy of a Legendary Long Island Getaway

By Jack Parlett | June 25, 2019

How Many Copies Did Famous Books Sell in the First Year?

How Many Copies Did Famous Books Sell in the First Year?

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By Emily Temple | June 25, 2019

On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

On Being a Woman Who Loves Math

Catherine Chung Finds Inspiration in the Lives of Otherwise Forgotten Mathematicians

By Catherine Chung | June 25, 2019

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

Sadiqa de Meijer on How Landscapes Change as Our Language Does

By Sadiqa de Meijer | June 25, 2019

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

From the Introduction to The Journal I Did Not Keep

By Catherine Lacey | June 25, 2019

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