This week, Your Favorite Librarian discusses, defines and provides tools to combat toxic and fragile femininity. Check out this week's reading selections:
"Feminist Weed Farmer: Growing Mindful Medicine In Your Back Yard" Madrone Stewart
"Side Notes from the Archivist" by Anastacia-Renee
"Dear Black Girls: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping into Your Power" by Tamara Winfrey Harris
Listen to this conversation, divided into four portions anywhere or at anytime. Check out the convo in depth, see here:
1. Attack on Womanhood/Femininity
- Definition and examples
-Social Media (Soft Life, How to be more Femme, Sub Life)
-Male Gaze and Audience
-Archetypes for Black Women and Femme presenting folks
2. Seeing Myself in You vs. I See Myself As Young
-Youth and Mentorship
-Comparison and Giving Help
-Double-minded= instability
-Competition
Jeju... How a Bathhouse Healed My Inner Child
-Bathhouse in the Gwinnett County area
-Women at peace and relaxing
-Publicly loving on and enjoying my body
Sisterhood, Community, and Resource
-Book resources to provide more insight on how to connect
-Physically relax... be at rest. Do nothing or be pampered
-Find or make connection
Stay tuned and continue reading, friends! There's a book and community out there for you.
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