White Male Supremacy is why it took America until 2020 to elect a Woman VPOTUS. WMS is in our classrooms and congress, feeding itself. We chat about recognizing it, and trying to end it. FYI: We invite fans of Bernard Sanders to not listen to this episode. You'll only get pissed at us, and we're not in the mood. Check out this episode's glorious women authors: Gloria Naylor: The Women of Brewster Place Mikki Kendall: Hood Feminism Amanda Gorman: Indie Bound search

Racist White Fragility, Ray Bradbury is thy name! Douse the dumpster fire of garbage that is Fahrenheit 451 with the cool, refreshing waters of far superior books by far superior women. (A partial list) /Ruth Ozeki*A Tale for the Time Being /Janet Campbell Hale*The Jailing of Cecelia Capture /Zadie Smith*White Teeth*Swing Time /Isabel Allende*The House of Spirits /Jhumpa Lahiri*The Namesake /Leslie Marmon Silko*Ceremony ZZ Packer*Drinking Coffee Elsewhere /Maxine Hong Kingston*The Woman Warrior

Women write amazing shit today and they wrote amazing shit a long time ago and kids are missing out on these masterworks of literature and drama simply because misogyny and racism are the cornerstones of every public school English curriculum. Let Willz sit on the ‘Choice Books’ shelf for once so students can explore and love these women’s words and perspectives instead: /Murasaki Shikibu*Diary of Lady Murasaki Shikibu*The Tale of Genji /Mary Zimmerman*Metamorphosis /Emily Wilson*The Odyssey (Translat

Lord of the Flies is 200 pages of mediocre toxic masculinity, so how about we dump this thing for some better books that explore lateral themes, written by some far more talented and intelligent ladies that maybe include women characters portrayed as actual humans who exist? Let’s do this! /Octavia Butler * Kindred * Parable of the Sower * Parable of the Talents /Shirley Jackson * The Lottery * We Have Always Lived in the Castle /Maya Angelou * I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings * On the Pulse of Morning

I mean, a white man plagiarizing about how hard life is for white men in America is a real fresh perspective – so sure, canonize him and make kids read his crap over and over . . .or instead, let’s read these gorgeous (better) books about life in America written by incredible (better) women: /Toni Morrison*The Bluest Eye*Beloved*Song of Solomon /Louise Erdrich*Love Medicine*The Round House*Tracks*The Beet Queen*The Bingo Palace /Alice Walker*The Color Purple*Meridian*The Temple of My Familiar

Let’s read better books of Abolition and Transcendentalism by women, none of whom took time off work to lounge around and navel-gaze in a tiny house on borrowed land and then act all serene and self-congratulatory about it, as they were too busy saving lives and changing the world. /Frances E.W. Harper * Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper * Lola LeRoy /Sojourner Truth * On Women’s Rights * Narrative of Sojourner Truth /Margaret Fuller * Women in the Nineteenth Century * The Essential Margaret Fuller

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is neither great, nor worthy of the three (3) Elanor has been assigned to read it. Replace that long-winded women-hating piece of poo with these novels of depth, character, and glorious relief for the reader of not languishing for page after page of worn-out ‘green light across the water’ metaphors oh my god dude, we get it. Ladies, you’re up. /Nella Larsen * Passing * Quicksand /Zora Neale Hurston * Their Eyes Were Watching God /Zelda Fitzgerald * Save Me the

Nathaniel’s Hathorne’s The Scarlet Letter has been read a billion times. Replace that worn-out thing with these far superior, thematic-adjacent novels, written by women who don’t throw tantrums and blame their career trajectories on whatever men are up to: /Celeste Ng: Little Fires Everywhere /Jesmyn Ward: Salvage the Bones /Elizabeth George Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond /NOTE: Ta-Nehisi Coates's name is pronounced Tah-Nuh-Hah-See. /www.damnedscribblingwomen.com