To coincide with the release of my book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls in Ireland and the UK via @TrampPress, @five_books asked me to recommend five books on Patriarchy. fivebooks.com/best-books/pat…
Look for The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls in your local bookshops. You can order online here feministgiant.com/p/the-seven-ne…
As I wrote in an essay eulogizing her, Nawal El Saadawi is not an Egyptian version of a white feminist. She is the Nawal El Saadawi of the world, not the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab world. Nawal El Saadawi was one of the foremost feminists in the world feministgiant.com/p/essay-nawal-…
My 2nd book is This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa. The latter's letter in this anthology encouraging women to write is so powerful. I am starting a series for FEMINIST GIANT in which I will respond to it 
“Writing is dangerous because we are afraid of what the writing reveals: the fears, the angers, the strengths of a woman under a triple or quadruple oppression...A woman who writes has power. A woman who writes is feared. In the eyes of the world this makes us dangerous beasts."
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