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Engender Recommends 2021
This year we've had the pleasure of talking to some brilliant people for our On the Engender podcast, and we ask each of the guests for a recommendation at the end of the episode. There have been loads of great reading recommendations this year, plus things to watch and listen to, and some bonus animal content!
Here's what's been recommended in 2021:
Reading
- Sarah Jaffe and her book Work Won't Love You Back
- You are not replaceable from Vittles Magazine
- Photos of the protests and solidarity actions at COP26
- Cook As You Are by Ruby Tandoh
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- The Right Sort of Girl by Anita Rani
- The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
- Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
- Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi
- Feminist Housing Activism blog series
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- Feminist City by Leslie Kern
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- This Is How We Come Back Stronger edited by the Feminist Book Society
- Feminist Democratic Representation by Sarah Childs and Karen Celis
- 'What White People Can Do Next' by Emma Dabiri
- Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
- Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper
- Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
- Rage Becomes Her, by Soraya Chemaly
- Against Memoir by Michelle Tea
- Sara Ahmed events on complaints, diversity and other hostile environments
- Cherry Bombe magazine
- Can't Even by Ann Helen Peterson
- Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Listening
- Sentimental Garbage podcast
- Witches of Scotland podcast
- Taylor Swift
- WestWingWeekly
Watching
- Impeachment: American Crime Story
- Schitt's Creek
- The Great British Sewing Bee
- The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers
- Black Widow
Things to do
- Joan Eardley: a centenary of lives and landscapes, Glasgow Women's Library until 12th Feb '22
- How We Live Now: Reimagining Spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, The Barbican until 23 Dec '21
- Couch to 5k
- Speak for Yourself training
- Join Engender!
- Keep up to date with the Sheku Bayoh inquiry and campaign
- Follow Glasgow Women's Library, Talat Yaqoob, Louise MacDonald, Engender, Leslie Kern and @AamerAnwar on Twitter
Just for fun
- Judith Butler Explained with Cats
- Philip Sim's thread on the Scottish Government photo day
- Spending time with animals (here's a pic of Alys' cats and here's Eilidh's Ginsburg with her favourite toy if you don't have access to any of your own)
- Library and Archives Paper Company
- Making your own candles
- A virtual tour of Gloria Steinem's home
- Miley Cyrus singing Bikini Kill on a treadmill
We hope you find something in this list to keep you entertained over the winter break, however you are spending it.
Posted on December 16 2021 at 13:58
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