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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.0

a poignant, brief and powerful essay, based on her TED Talk. A quick read. A lot of quotable passages in there, a lot of things to think about. A good start for intersectionality.

HOWEVER: One thing really bugs me. Her binary, very biologist view of gender. The notion that only women can bare children is trans-exclusive. Now, I haven't checked if Ngozi Adichie still holds that view or not, but it is in that book and I haven't found an updated version without it.
But it is one little paragraph in a book that is a good read as a whole and doesn't make it totally flawed.
So read it, think about it, be critical.

here's the original ted talk video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc