Thousands and thousand of women are marching in Washington, DC and across the country in local marches to protest our new administration. Women from all over are banding together to promote intersectional feminist ideals and demonstrate that together, we are stronger, and we’ve got no time for their ish. I wish I could be out there marching with all the badass ladies, but instead, I’ll be celebrating my favorite activists and feminists with some patriarchy-smashing reads. Your Hour Twelve challenge is this: in the comments, tell me either who you’d like to be marching with today or what feminist books you’re reading in solidarity?
I personally would love to stand arm-in-arm with Gloria Steinem, Angela Davis, Michelle Obama, and Beyonce (anyone that stands in front of a giant “Feminist” sign is an activist in my book). And I’ve got We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Here We Are by Kelly Jensen (you can win this one!), the Mockingbird: Vol. 1 comic by Chelsea Cain, and Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay on my feminist TBR stack.
I’ll pick a winner at Hour 18. And don’t forget you can still enter the Hour Zero: Intro Survey challenge until midnight ET tonight!
For now, how about a winner for our Shelfie challenge from Hour Six?
Emily DeCato
Excellent shelfie work, everyone. Not a bad looking reader among you.
And of course, we’re drawing four more door prize winners:
Rebekah (on Litsy @BekahB)
Carmen (on Litsy @Books.Bottles.and.Babies)
Jessi Newell
Gaby Oliva
See you back here in three hours! Happy reading (and marching)!
24in48 Readathon 
I’m reading THE GARDEN PARTY AND OTHER STORIES which is by Katherine Mansfield, feminist in the term it’s a 20th C female author, I guess? I also have HOT FEMINIST, and many on my feminist TBR!
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No feminist reads on the horizon right now, but in my heart I’m in Minnesota marching with one of my old college friends!
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Saving Red, a novel in verse, on my list is the closest thing I have to a feminism read coming up this weekend.
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I wish I could march with my best friend Melanie and my daughter Jenna. Melanie and I have been friends over 20 years. Our entire adult lives. We have supported each other through it all. She is paricipating in the staging area in the Austin march. Jenna will be 14 in just a few weeks. She is my miracle. My heart and soul. I worry for her. I rejoice for her. I sing for her. I cry for her. I hope for her. She will stand tall and proud and be a phenomenal woman. I have no doubt.
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I would also march with Michelle Obama! And I’d bring along my bestie, Deborah.
On my tbr stack for the readathon, I’ve got A Darker Shade of Magic. It’s not distinctly patriarchy smashing, but Lila Bard is the most BA woman in any book I’ve ever read!
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I would love to march with Carrie Fisher. She’s a huge role model for me. 😿 The first book I read for #24in48 was March Book Three with the protests in mind. I wish I could attend and I hope everyone is safe out there!
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I feel like Giant Days does a little with feminism… I would love to march with Michelle Obama!
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I have friends marching in Denver today that I’d love to be with. I just finished Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur which ended up feeling far more feminist than I expected! I’m also listening to Hidden Figures. Bad ass ladies being bad ass any way that they can.
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I decided to read The Assassin’s Blade purely because Celaena/Aelin is all about girl power and feminism, I don’t think any of my other books have girl characters that are nearly quite as strong or are all about empowerment. (Just exclude all the deaths and stuff but she’s amazing). I would want to stand with her and Nehemia (if it were possible), because she was empowering too.
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I’m reading Everyday Sexism, Feminist Fight Club, and How to Win at Feminism!
two of my books!
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I’d love to be marching with all the women out there currently marching, although Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinem, and co. would be great as well. The main reason I’m not is the dizziness that keeps making my knees hyperextend when I walk because I can’t maintain my balance very well. I don’t know that I’ll read anything feminist this weekend since my reading choices tend to be based on whims, but I do have Americanah on my shelves as one possibility.
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I’d definitely be marching with Michelle Obama, RBG, and my best friend from college who really introduced me to feminism.
Everyone should check out “How To Be a Woman” by Caitlin Moran. It’s the first feminist work I read and I LOVE it! I recommend it to all the girl power sisters!
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Unfortunately no marching for me, but I have The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Le deuxième sexe by Simone de Beauvoir on my TBR. I’m starting the latter after finishing my current read.
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I’ll be reading some Toni Morrison, who, whether or not her works can specifically be called feminist, has done so much for the representation of women in literature.
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I’m not reading any fem lit at the moment. I do wish I was marching with my five Sisters.
One of them called me this morning to say the same thing.
Feeling really close to them all
Even though we are scattered across the US.
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I have to admit that I don’t know feminist reads as such. At least no scientific or nonfiction reads, maybe except for Judith Butler, but she’s rather not a feminist, I think. I mean, she says that gender itself is just a social construct. Of course that would mean ‘treat everybody equal’, too, but from a different view point, not from the perspective of men and women should be treated equal.
But I like ‘feminist’ fiction. Not fiction where the protagonist is actually mentioning feminism, but books in which the female hero is just as tough and cool as every human protagonist. I love ‘Mara und der Feuerbringer’, a german fantasy trilogy (First movie made with help by John Nugent who created LotR’s Balroc, and with a cameo of Billy Boyd 😉 ). Mara is only 14 and wants to be normal, but she has a lot of daydreams. But then she gets to know that she’s a spakona, a norse seer, and has to save to world. And she … well, she’s just as cool as male superheroes.
And over here there are no women’s marches. And we don’t have any real feminist idol. Our Alice Schwarzer is misandrous and therefore not exactly a good idol. And she evaded taxes and is therefore a criminal.
But if I could be in America, I’d like to join Michelle Obama. She should be the 46th POTUS, please!
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I’m pretty in love with Michelle Obama and Elizabeth Warren right now. Rachel Maddow and Angela Rye in a close second. We have some pretty awesome lady voices these days.
Most of what I read these days are YA fairy tales. Finishing up Snow Like Ashes series then on to A Torch Against the Night.
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I would like to march with my mother, since she is the most important woman in my life. She raised me to be strong and independent and to stand up for myself and for what I believe is right.
I don’t really have a feminism-themed book on my TBR, but one of my favourites is The Color Purple by Alice Walker. Definately recommend. ^^
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I’d love to be marching with Madonna ❤️💪🏼🎵a girl can dream 💖
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I’m reading Bad Feminist this weekend. I wanted to read We Should All Be Feminists too, but they didn’t have it at the library.
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I’m not in the US but I’m still, as most people are, pretty passionate about this cause. I’d absolutely love to march alongside some of my heroes such as Amanda Palmer, Patti Smith and Stevie Nicks. I also totally agree with you on marching with Michelle Obama. I admire her confidence and unwavering courage so much. ❤
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I am about to go out with my husband (self proclaiming feminist ❤) and meeting up with the amazing women I know for the Bay Area marches. I know that my personal Bay Area role model Angela Davis will be in DC but we will have author Rebecca Solnit, author of my current favorite (and a book I’m going to finish in the readathon) Hope in the Dark, and Men Explain Things To Me, will be with us today. Numbers matter and I am heartened by those standing and marching in solidarity with women today. ✊🏻
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No strictly feminist literature in my stack but I’ve got “The Myth of The Strong Leader” by Archie Brown and Lies, Inc by Philip K Dick. Both of which seem relevant. Best of everything to all readers!
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I’d be marching with the women from down the street who are afraid their marriage will be nullified, I’d be marching with the high school girl who just found out she was pregnant and is too scared to tell anyone, I’d be marching with the women and girls who use Planned Parenthood for healthcare and are fearful that option won’t be available much longer, I’d be marching with with you.
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I wish I could be marching with Michelle Obama. She is such an inspiration to me. I wish I was marching today, but I live in a small town in Kansas and my husband and I have very little money, certainly not enough to travel to one of the participating cities. But I have friends marching and they are keeping me updated!
I’m reading Hidden Figures. I realize it doesn’t SCREAM femenisism but in a way it does. It’s about the HUNDREDS of woman who made it possible for man to walk on the moon. The woman who were so utterly brilliant the space program would have been lost without them. And who’s stories are finally being told. Just writing about it is giving me chills. I’m so proud to be a woman, and so proud of the things women have accomplished.
So wish I could be marching! Definitely have those marching in my thoughts right now.
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Hidden Figures is legit feminist and diverse reading! Good for you!
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Thank you! 😊
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I’ll be marching later today with my sons. I want to show them to recognize their privilege and to be allies.
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I would love to march with Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Roxane Gay and Carrie Fisher! Unfortunately, I don’t have any feminist books on my readathon tbr but I wish I did!
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If I could be at the Women’s March right now I’d be marching side by side with some of my best friends from college. I know quite a few people marching today and wish I could be there to help support. I don’t have any feminist books on my list for today, but I wish I did!
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I’ve got Strong Female Protagonist Vol. 1 by Brennan Lee Mulligan!
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I’m so sad I couldn’t march with my friends in Stockholm today.
I have soo many feminist books I want to read, Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Herland has been on my TBR-list for way to long. Many newer books as well, like Bad Feminist.
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Oooh, Beyoncé is a great choice! But I’d be happy if I could be there at all instead of working. I’ll be reading the March series and The Fate of the Tearling, Kelsea is a hardcore ladytype!
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I wish I was marching with Deaf friends in D.C. — I’m following Linda’s Facebook posts. Others I know marching in DC are Rachel and Susanna (daughter’s childhood friends) and Susan (a cousin).
Have March Book 3, Milk and Honey, and Difficult Women waiting to be read.
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All About Love by bell hooks. I’ve been dipping in and out of it for the past few months.
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I’m working my way through The Yellow Wallpaper and other writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman! I may also pick up How To Be A Woman by Cait in Moran 🙂
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Reading Ms. Marvel today; also #ReadDiverseBooks. On shelf: Carrie Fisher, Donna Brazille, Hidden Figures, Haters, & more. One year ago I committed to read 50% of my books by women. About women. Etc.
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I would love to march with Michelle Obama, and this weekend I’m reading I am Malala!
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I’m currently reading Kindred by Octavia Butler. While focusing on race issues, it is also very much a feminist book When I need a break, I am going to reading Bitch Planet Volume 1.
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I have a coworker and a student marching in D.C., and an aunt marching in Charlotte, N.C. My primary read this weekend is LaRose by Louise Erdrich. While not necessarily considered a “feminist” writer, I can’t think of another who creates stronger, more inspiring female characters. In my to-read pile, I have Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood and The Meaning of Michelle by Veronica Chambers.
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I would like to beat marching with Hillary Clinton. She has shown so much class through this debacle. I still plan to read The Handmaid’s Tale and maybe start a biography of Clara Barton that I have had for a while.
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I’m reading: We Should All Be Feminist and Men Explain Things to Me. I’ve got a few other diverse or human rights related books thrown in as well!
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Reading Difficult Women by Roxanne Gay.
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I’m sad to say that I don’t have any feminism books on my TBR pile because they are currently still on my wishlist. I’d like to march with any feminist in general because they are all amazing for what they do.
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I would love to march with Helen Keller! Most don’t know she fought with the suffrage movement and the socialist movement. One of my heroes.
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I just got back from the local March in my town. Reading is great, but resistance is more important. My TBR includes A Question of Choice (about Roe v. Wade), Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, and The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. 💪🏻
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I’d actually like to march with Hillary, because I’ve been a fan of hers since I was a girl. But I’d also love to march with my best friend, Sam, and of course Michelle and Beyonce. I’ll be dipping in and out of The Handmaid’s Tale, We Should All Be Feminists, and Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution as my political/feminist reads for the ‘thon.
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I would love to be out marching with my grad school friends right now! They are in several different cities across the US, spreading the love and fighting for equality and I miss them dearly. To stand in solidarity with them and all the other amazing people out marching today, I read We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (and blasted Beyonce during my break from reading earlier).
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I would be marching with the women I’ve served with in the military, badass ladies every one.
I have Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay, Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, Ms Marvel, & I Hate Fairyland (is that one considered a feminist read?) all on tap for the readathon!
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Just posted a screenshot of my iBooks “Smash the Patriarchy 💪🏻” shelf on Litsy:
http://litsy.com/p/UVdYVWlkWWdP
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I’m listening to How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
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I would love to march with my college roommate JoAnn, but she has traveled to Washington DC with her coworkers. She works at the Planned Parenthood headquarters in NYC. I’m hoping to start Difficult Women by Roxane Gay today!
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