Rise Up and Read is a feminist book club moving us toward our next chapter of collective liberation.
Since the 2016 presidential election, white women have begun the work of waking up and unpacking our privilege and power in this land built on white supremacy. Many of us have committed to following black female leaders to build an intersectional feminist movement. But this work isn’t one-and-done. It takes deep, sustained engagement with the voices of women of color. It takes a meaningful exploration of the legacy texts at the core of today’s movement.
As we organize resistance to the current administration, it is not enough to take action. We must provide spaces for education and feminist growth. We must do deeper, more personal work to ensure that each woman who shows up to the polls in 2020 — our families, our neighbors, our colleagues — casts her vote against the increasing tide of unapologetic authoritarianism and white nationalism. With the Women’s March, we’ve begun to get street smart. Now it’s time to get book smart.
Rise Up and Read, a feminist book club, has four essential goals:
As we organize resistance to the current administration, it is not enough to take action. We must provide spaces for education and feminist growth. We must do deeper, more personal work to ensure that each woman who shows up to the polls in 2020 — our families, our neighbors, our colleagues — casts her vote against the increasing tide of unapologetic authoritarianism and white nationalism. With the Women’s March, we’ve begun to get street smart. Now it’s time to get book smart.
Rise Up and Read, a feminist book club, has four essential goals:
- Educate white women, and feminist activists of all backgrounds, on the histories, theories, and stories at the core of today’s feminist movement.
- Amplify the voices of women of color whose writings, thoughts, and experiences are the soul of the modern feminist movement.
- Inspire educators, voters, change agents, and the next generation of grassroots leaders to engage with intersectional feminist thinking and writing.
- Challenge women to use their new understanding to engage in courageous conversations and transformational relationship building rooted in the collective liberation of all.