19 Top nonfiction books like To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe by Akwugo Emejulu

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Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Similar categories in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"

-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Women, Race & Class book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens

"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

Similar categories in Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• nonfiction
• essays

"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Similar categories in bell hooks's Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens

Similar categories in None's The Thing Around Your Neck book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

Similar categories in Nikesh Shukla's The Good Immigrant book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays

"You cannot have meaning without knowledge of the environment from which it stems."

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"If cultures were to survive in England it would be on the shoulders of bastardisation"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"Integrate well. Move upwards in society. Be praised – until people worry that you’re doing too well, and then they remember that you’re foreign." (from "The Good Immigrant" by Nikesh Shukla)"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

"It is there in the white men and women who do not understand, to the point of frustration, why we still walk with the noose of our ancestors around our necks, as we cannot comprehend how they do not …"

-Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

Similar categories in Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

Similar categories in Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

Similar categories in Jehad Abusalim's Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• politics
• anthologies
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays

Similar categories in Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

Similar categories in Rafia Zakaria's Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• social justice
• womens

"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"

-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Similar categories in Natasha Lunn's Conversations on Love book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• nonfiction
• essays

"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

Similar categories in Philippa Perry's The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did] book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race
• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens

"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Similar categories in Natasha Brown's Assembly book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race

"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's Everybody: A Book About Freedom book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• essays

Similar categories in Leïla Slimani's Sex and Lies book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens

"Devenir une femme est un parcours semé d'humiliations. Face à la police, face à la justice comme dans l'espace public, être une femme est un inconvénient. Comme l'écrivait le romancier turc Livaneli …"

-Leïla Slimani, Sex and Lies

Similar categories in Clare Chambers's Small Pleasures book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"

-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures

Similar categories in Raven Leilani's Luster book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race

"Based on his liberal use of the semicolon, I just assumed this date would go well."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I think of how keenly I've been wrong. I think of all the gods I have made out of feeble men."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"The first time we have sex, we are both fully clothed, at our desks during working hours, bathed in blue computer light."

-Raven Leilani, Luster

"I am inclined to pray, but on principle, I don't. God is not for women. He is for the fruit. He makes you want and he makes you wicked, and while you sleep, he plants a seed in your womb that will be…"

-Raven Leilani, Luster

Similar categories in Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Similar categories in Lola Olufemi's Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens

"Feminist work is justice work"

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"Legality does not equal access."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• gender

"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

Similar categories in Molly Smith's Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• social justice
• activism

"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Similar categories in Françoise Vergès's Un féminisme décolonial book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens

Similar categories in Lola Olufemi's Experiments in Imagining Otherwise book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• activism

"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history’s radical traditions mea…"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine…"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

Similar categories in Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe book and Akwugo Emejulu's To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

• race
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• anthologies
• nonfiction
• social justice
• essays
• womens
• activism