Moxie

Everyone cheers again, and soon we???re dancing, our bodies moving, one big mass of girls having fun. As I watch Lucy spin and knock her dark curls around, and as I listen to Claudia laugh and sing along (badly), it occurs to me that this is what it means to be a feminist. Not a humanist or an equalist or whatever. But a feminist. It???s not a bad word. After today it might be my favorite word. Because really all it is is girls supporting each other and wanting to be treated like human beings in a world that???s always finding ways to tell them they???re not.

Love, love, love! Cannot recommend enough. Viv goes from “nice girl” to Riot Grrrl, makes new friends, learns about intersectional feminism, and falls in love.

I love that this really was about girls embracing feminism, and that the book deals with where racism and sexism intersect. And rape culture. Viv meets a good kid named Seth, but also must deal with and accept that he will always struggle a little to understand what it's like to be a girl in this society. He's willing to try, though.

I want to give this book to every young woman I know!