alicedroni's reviews
64 reviews

No new news if you've already read a lot of feminist literature but i really like the way the information is organized and topics are framed. 

Left the book full of a positive sense of spite and excited for my hair to turn fully grey 

Interesting ideas, but a bit disorganized. It was nice to see both positive and negative sides of anarcho-polyamory being discussed but i felt like most of the essays weren't as thought out as they could have been. I found myself agreeing with specific points but generally wanting to re-explain the rest of the essay in more clear terms. There were a few i just straight up disagreed with but found interesting to consider still. 

I also think the order of essays could have been developed a bit better because some (such as 8 points on relationship anarchy) were quite introductory but placed late in the collection, while others were way more nuanced personal takes were at the begining, making the collection feel more negative and "infighting" than it actually was. 

Worth a read but wouldn't reccomended to newcomers to the subject.

I don't want to say this is a bad book, but it definitely isn't for me... Actually I'm not sure who it is for.

It doesn't have any bad information other than a few outdated metaphors, but it also doesnt have anything other than the most basic "therapy is good 101" overview. It's also written in a "cool millennial aunt" tone, so the only people who might find some use out of it is an older millennial who has literally never considered therapy before, cause the younger millennials like myself all find this style annoying and the gen z's already know WAY too much about therapy from tiktok. 

Also the audiobook quality is bizarrely bad.

An incredibly important perspective. Should be required reading for anyone not understanding what the black lives movement is about. 

Reading this book was such an eye opening experience of how little western culture really knows about the struggle in Palestine. 

I feel like such a dumb American, but also so grateful that these women risked so much to share their experiences. 

I find Kropotkin's writing to be some of the most accessible of the communism 101 books I've read. It's still dense and a little dated but the concepts he talks about are still incredibly relevant to today society (though of course the examples of factory and agricultural work could use an update). 

-1/4 stars because he drops an N-bomb in the very last chapter. My guy... You were so close to being an unproblematic fav. 😭

Super important perspective on the failures of white feminism.