by ayla

image from:  https://www.thestoriedblog.com/blog/review-the-grace-year **THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOLIERS**  (no plot twists are revealed, and i think you can read my review before reading and still enjoy all of the twists in the book, big and small, but a few minor things are mentioned vaguely.) I found a free 36 page preview, with google books, so its reliable and won't give your device a virus, link here: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Grace_Year/OjHNDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover Genre: thriller, dystopian fiction Age rating: YA, 14+ personally, i'm 14, and i feel like this age rating is fair, however, i still recommend looking up content/ trigger warnings before reading if you are a younger reader !!  Plot summary:   I n   garner county, it is believed that all young women are born with a dark power.  to counteract this, all 16 year old girls begin their grace year; they are banished to the northern forest for a year...

 on Saturday 1st may, i had a video call interview with Mia Alexander (she/her), the creator of feministgrrrl.com . we talked about her website, intersectionality and shared feminist resources. this was my first time ever interviewing someone, and i was very grateful for the opportunity to talk to Mia.  who is Mia Alexander? Mia Alexander is a 16 year old junior in high school based in Washington DC and, as I've already said, is the creator of feministgrrrl.com. A direct quote from her website:   " I created the Feminist Grrrl newsletter to share writings about feminism, intersectionality, and broader political topics. Feminist grrrl's number one goal is to promote sisterhood and solidarity between women." when/ how did you first discover feminism? "I first learned about feminism through Taylor Swift, actually, she had an article about it in a magazine where she was talking about the sexism she had faced in the music industry. I had already been a fan of...

illustration by Tyler Feder. what is intersectionality? the term was first coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989- a scholar and civil rights activist. However even though she coined the term, she was not the first to address the issue. One of the women who spoke about intersectionality before her was Sojourner Truth, an American abolitionist and womens rights activist. The definition of intersectionality is... intersectionality /ɪntəsɛkʃəˈnalɪti/ noun the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. "through an awareness of intersectionality, we can better acknowledge and ground the differences among us" Choose language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Bangla Basque Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Catalan Cebuano Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech...