"no one learns how to be mean at twenty-five. No one actually becomes a hardline racist in their thirties"
All in Non-Fiction
The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness by Jill Filipovic
"When it comes to pleasure, our political forces run the gamut from indifference to outright hostility, either ignoring any interest in feeling good or writing off pleasure as immoral, hedonistic, even lazy”
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal
The American healthcare system is rigged against you. It’s a crapshoot and from day to day, no one knows if it will work well to address a particular ailment.
Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The idea of ‘gender roles’ is absolute nonsense.” Here lies a universal message to push back against societies straightjacket for our girls, from the tyranny of pink versus blue, to gendered toys to who does the cooking.
Pandemic by Sonia Shah
"By the 19th century cholera “was one of the fastest-moving, most feared pathogens in the world,” sickening hundreds of millions."