Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #24: Pussy Riot

This column has been on hiatus since the springtime and I’m happy to be back. I’ve been reading so much—mostly books by women—this summer. While I’ve been away, I’ve been thinking about gender more than ever, if you can believe that. I’ve also been hanging out with some younger women, observing their strengths, and appreciating older women and what they give me, give all of us. I’ve been thinking about Anne Frank, as always, and falling in love with Grace Hartigan. I’ve been thinking about what a riot pussies are, wondering if my periods are ever going to stop—thirty-three years of Tampax and birth control somehow seems like enough to me, but the Ob-Gyn thinks I’ve got miles to go before I cease (to bleed). These books are all dope, are all by badass women whose sentences and brains and guts I envy. After all, only women bleed…

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  1. Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
  2. Girls by Peggy Orenstein
  3. Violation by Sallie Tisdale
  4. Goodnight Beautiful Women by Anna Noyes
  5. Grace by Natashia Deón
  6. Harley and Me by Bernadette Murphy
  7. Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis
  8. Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
  9. Neon Green by Margaret Wappler
  10. Books That Changed My Life by Bethanne Patrick

 

Pussy Riot

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Anna March’s writing appears regularly in Salon and here at the Rumpus and her work has been widely published including in The New York Times' Modern Love Column, New York Magazine, VQR, Hip Mama and Tin House. Her essay collection, Feminist Killjoy, and novel, The Diary of Suzanne Frank, are both forthcoming and she is at work on two new books. She teaches writing workshops, mentors writers, is active in promoting literary community and is the co-founder of LITFOLKS in LA and DC. She lives in Rehoboth Beach and Los Angeles. Sometimes she has pink hair. Follow her on Twitter @ANNAMARCH or learn more about her at ANNAMARCH.COM.

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