Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Well-Intentioned White Feminist’s Version of Community Is Kinda… [insert eyeroll emoji here]

Community Board by Tara Conklin

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A few years ago I made a deal with myself that I would never apply a star rating to a book that I would have scored < 3 (ETA this note that I mean “less than 3 stars” rather than [heart emoji]). I also went through my entire Goodreads (then pretty prolific) and deleted every single written review, leaving only the star ratings. Short of a book that I found particularly offensive that I thought should require content warnings, I had no written reviews and […]

B*tch is not the New Black.

Nice White Ladies by Jessie Daniels

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I remember the moment when I realized that white women, as a whole, are not crusaders for social justice, but enforcers of white supremacy. I had been working towards it for a while. It happened a lot later than I’d like to admit, and the realization took a while to sink in. I’d like to say I’ve given up my illusions about the role of the white woman in the world, but the things we absorb subconsciously as children are the hardest to root out. […]

Please Stop Profiting Off Black Women’s Ideas

Rage Baking: The Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women's Voices by Katherine Alford, Kathy Gunst

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If Rage Baking is a movement, it’s one that was initially catalyzed by my physical and emotional labor in a major city and in an influential group of people. It is one that was started with the simple act of being kind and encouraging in the darkest of times. I am not at all surprised that my kindness has been overshadowed by the actions of well-intended white women. That my rage and pain has been claimed as their own and their voices centered, uplifted and […]



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