In this minisode from FWF 2018 Legacy Books, Jamila Rizvi talks about the power of the imagination and how books helped her find her place in the world.
“I didn’t have a type or even a favourite genre, I read and loved everything I could get my hands on. Perhaps the only common thread was that all my favourite books featured women and girls.”
By Eda Gunaydin I can’t seem to call myself a feminist anymore, although it used to be a hill I was willing to die on. But it is a hill. Having failed to develop a political consciousness until I entered university, it seemed correct to organise around what I observed...
By Roj Amedi There are two conversations being had in response to our current moment of global pandemics, entrenched racial injustice and ecological collapse. On one side is a growing push to change the way our societies function ― a call to interrogate the...
Jessie Tu is the author of A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing. What does feminism mean to you? It means centering myself as emblematic of how a full human being can be. Basically, giving myself and other women the honour, dignity, care, and attention that men have...