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…
- Bright Lines by Tanwi Nandini Islam
- Girls by Peggy Orenstein
- Violation by Sallie Tisdale
- Goodnight Beautiful Women by Anna Noyes
- Grace by Natashia Deón
- Harley and Me by Bernadette Murphy
- Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis
- Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens
- Neon Green by Margaret Wappler
- Books That Changed My Life by Bethanne Patrick
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