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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
by Amelia Nagoski, Emily Nagoski
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Things that were good: the concrete worksheets to help center your focus or help you make decisions could be very useful (especially in paper copy--I read this on ebook so a little more difficult but you could definitely copy them easily by hand!) Obviously also naming power structures is important and something most self-help books are missing.
Things that were rough: though the explanation they give for why the science is so cis-centric is true, there's also no inclusion of trans women's experiences (and really, apart from I think two places, trans people have no place in the book at all.) I think also by focusing only on "patriarchy" as the power structure at play, they minimize a lot of factors at play, speaking broadly instead of specifically. I understand it's supposed to be broad, but I think it falls flat here. (Also a lot of questions about men of color in their formations of power, but I might just be nitpicking at this point.)
So I guess I'd say: totally easy to take the things you need from this if you're a cis woman, and especially a cis white woman. And there is stuff in here for more people--I don't think that the worksheets or tactics won't work for you because you're a trans woman. But definitely another example of "trans inclusive" feminism that doesn't actually do any work to include trans people of any gender beyond rhetorics.
Things that were rough: though the explanation they give for why the science is so cis-centric is true, there's also no inclusion of trans women's experiences (and really, apart from I think two places, trans people have no place in the book at all.) I think also by focusing only on "patriarchy" as the power structure at play, they minimize a lot of factors at play, speaking broadly instead of specifically. I understand it's supposed to be broad, but I think it falls flat here. (Also a lot of questions about men of color in their formations of power, but I might just be nitpicking at this point.)
So I guess I'd say: totally easy to take the things you need from this if you're a cis woman, and especially a cis white woman. And there is stuff in here for more people--I don't think that the worksheets or tactics won't work for you because you're a trans woman. But definitely another example of "trans inclusive" feminism that doesn't actually do any work to include trans people of any gender beyond rhetorics.