Book Recommended : In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial.

✺ Recommended book⁠ ❛⁠ War's Unwomanly Face (Voices of Utopia #1) by Svetlana Alexievich ❜⁠ ⁠ This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in it, describing how young girls, who dreamed of becoming brides, became soldiers in 1941. ⁠ ⁠ More than 500,000 Soviet women participated on a par with men in the Second World War, the most terrible war of the 20th century. Women not only rescued and bandaged the wounded but also fired

✤ Recommended book. Good and Mad. The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister⁠ Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” ( Vanity Fair ). Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, and before th

"Melinda Gates's book is a lesson in listening. A powerful, poignant, and ultimately humble call to arms." — Tara Westover, author of the Ne

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♩ Wed Music. Morning Blue by Gaidaa. The Dutch and Sudanese musician offers a refreshing sound worth paying attention to during the strange months we’ve all been facing in 2020. Gaidaa grew up between the Netherlands and Sudan which offered two massively different environments for her to explore herself and her interests. Though she’s currently a rising artist still in the beginning stages of her professional career, her exploratory sound is unique. She was initially writing,

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♩ Wed Music. Pictures by Joana Serrat. Lead single ‘Pictures’ illustrates the album’s rich textures and immersive atmospherics. “Pictures talks about disillusion and the failure of communication,” comments Serrat. “It's also a reminder of the amount of time we stupidly waste on trivial details. That idea of 'perfection never comes' is that you are better off just living your life because things can always go wrong. Tables turn in the blink of an eye. So putting off things whi

Sara is a musician, composer, curator, researcher & data analyst, creative technologist, community researcher and instructor. Sara Sithi-Amnuai is an active creative technologist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. Sithi-Amnuai’s recent work focuses on the intersection between identity, improvisation, and live performance interaction between the performer's body and their instrument through gesture and sound. Her latest work is Nami, a cust

♩ Wed Music. The Way You Are by Di'Ja Ft. Tiwa Savage.⁠ ⁠ "The Way You Are ” track is finally out and with it, they make a confident statement on sexual freedom for women.⁠ ⁠ We don’t often get women who can confidently flaunt their freedom to feel and express attraction around these parts. This has created a misconception that we don’t show sexual urges and that in turn has resulted in unwanted soliciting because somebody thinks we can’t admit attraction.⁠ ⁠ ⌘ Who is these #

✤ Books that every #women should read. ⁠ Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time—until her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin’s second wife. Furious, shocked, and liv

♩ Wed Music. "Tu que vienes a buscarme " by Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés. Lyrics. En la periferia brillante de una galaxia mediana, en medio de un mar oscuro donde flota nuestro mundo tú, que vienes a rondarme como los nueve planetas, parece que cuando bailas llueven miles de cometas Tú que vienes a rondarme amárrate a mí Tú que vienes a rondarme arrímate aquí magia negra entre tus manos mil caballos desbocados corren con el morro en llamas el fuego canta y tú bailas lamen lu

Poem | This Is Not A Feminist Poem by WanaWana⁠ ⁠ This is not a feminist by WanaWana is a poem that looks at female injustice, violence and marginalization. It addresses society's hypocrisy and complacency towards the plethora of issues facing African women⁠ When you have been in the doldrums for so long, when all you've known is how to adapt and survive, anything else just feels like you are asking for too much '- Wana Udobang Who is this remarkable woman ? Wana Udobang, als

✣ Artistic Minds. Adeola Olagunju ⁠ ⁠ She is a Nigerian photographer who lives and works in Lagos. She has worked as a Graphic Artist for Ad

Mercy Akuot: Artist, Activist⁠. ⁠ South Sudanese artist Mercy Akuot uses her music to tell stories from her own life and to make demands for a better life for women and girls. ⁠ ⁠ As a survivor of forced marriage when she was only 15 years old, Mercy first told her story publicly at TEDx Kakuma Camp in 2018. ⁠ ⁠Since then Mercy has recorded an album with two other talented young women in the camp. ⁠ ⁠ The album is called Bado Mapema (It’s Still Early). On the title track each

⁠✿ Recommended Book. Loba by Diane di Prima.⁠ ⁠ Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance⁠ "However