We Should All Be Feminists

As I start to settle more into the process of quarantining due to the COVID-19 virus, it’s been a bit hard to read, surprisingly. I felt initially restless, but have now started to get over those challenges and have phased back into naturally reading for awhile at a time.

This was a brilliant short book by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who is able to break down core philosophies of gender equality through her eloquent retelling of her own experiences. It is strikingly simple and readable.

The book itself is an extended and edited transcript of a talk she gave in 2017 (which itself is quite good), and it shows; the book flows conversationally, as a loose argumentation of how sexual politics, globally, is often masked, diverted, or subverted by entrenched systems of power that must continue to be addressed.