We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Its on rare occassions that I pick up books such as these - detailing the injustices we face on a daily basis and that are too tiring to think anymore. Too tiring to continually justify of it happening still 0 in a 'modern' world. There was a time during my masters that I read a lot of these, specially under my Gender and Environment course. And then when I could handle my own anger, I read more of it.
This talk by Chimamanda in a book form is an easy to-read essay with hard hitting facts given to you. Written in 2014, it did give me a feel that it a while has passed since it was first published but all the little things still happen, as mentioned (and experienced).
In new areas of life, for example in office space, I have been able to notice the small nuances that point out how people are quick, too quick to assume the man being in the position of power. In most of my office work, majority of us were womxn and yet in our travel/work trips the discussions, decency -all of it was naturally and readily given to our male coworker.
Thankfully, in personal life I also know of men, womxn, friends (made and befriended in a conscious decision) who recognize their own feminity. This review got personal I think that is one of the marker of the kind of book you will be reading if you read it - it will (hopefully) touch a chord - for you too.
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