It’s not about trauma, it’s about how our brains work but it’s helped me understand why I feel the way I do and how I can learn to work with the way I am rather than fighting it. So there you have my favourite books so far! What books would you recommend that you’ve read...
race, gender, class and religion. I wanted to understand how Chinese Christian women – who were traditionally portrayed as the ‘recipients’ or ‘objects’ of a modernizing ‘uplifting’ western education (unbinding their feet, freeing them from arranged marriages etc.) – had agency...
This year we found much to be grateful for even as we pivoted to pursue new interests and ways of being thanks to Covid-19. This year we welcome with great expectations the fresh possibilities Vice President Elect Kamala Harris brings to our nation, young girls and the women of the world....
***It’s Never Been a Level Playing Field – Overcoming 8 Racial Myths to Even the Field (Deal, Not Free) by Steve Brigham. Price: $1.99. Genre: Just and Inclusive Nonfiction Deal, Sponsor, Understand the historical structures that have upheld White advantage and supremacy. Rated: 4.9 star...
Buy on Amazon Add to library If Before I Die did not cement Downham’s reputation as an influential voice in young adult fiction, then this explosive novel certainly will. Furious Thing follows Lexi, a girl who is angry for reasons she cannot understand. Though she tries to swallow her tem...
to avoid spoilers.) She addresses the sad state of affairs for women in the US, where women of reproductive age are finding it harder to obtain contraception, where politicians make outrageous statements about rape and other matters they don’t seem to understand. (Such as the infamous, women...
The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an instantly relatable and deeply honest account of his own life, Brendan Kiely offers young readers a way to understand one’s own white privilege and why allyship is so vital, so that we can all start doing our part...
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: ...
-Understand the difference between helpful and unhelpful praise -Resolve family conflicts peacefully Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewa...
Its an exploration about taking care of an old house but also about trying to learn and understand the inherent racism in the area. the writer is delightfully naïve and witty and I enjoyed every page of his story. Everything in this Country Must by Colum McCann I am generally not a ...