Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
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Here We Are is a scrapbook-style teen guide to understanding what it really means to be a feminist. It s packed with essays, lists, poems, comics, and illustrations from a diverse range of voices, including TV, film, and pop-culture celebrities and public figures such as ballet dancer Michaela DePrince and her sister Mia, politician Wendy Davis, as well as popular YA authors like Nova Ren Suma, Malinda Lo, Brandy Colbert, Courtney Summers, and many more. Altogether, the book features more than forty-four pieces, with an eight-page insert of full-color illustrations.
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It's critical we examine the kind of standards we hold fictional girls to and consider how it reflects in the way we treat real girls and, most important, what kind of emotional impact that has on them. What are we saying to girls when we cannot accept difficult, hurting female characters as being worthy of love because they are difficult and hurting? Are we telling them they have to hide their pain and act likable to be loved?
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This is an amazing book, full of diverse stories and interpretations of feminism. The writers come from a lot of different background, have reached feminism in a different way, and apply that concept to their lives in their own way.
