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The party book club event was a success!  A slightly addled recap.

Had an unspeakably lovely time at this Emily Books event, in which the following (from Nicole Cliff’s essay on No More Nice Girls) was discussed at length and with fairness and no one freaked out or got defensive, so WIN.

It’s in the introspection surrounding the movement, more specifically in “Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism,” but also in the totality of these essays, that Willis is most like us. The concerns about balancing a certain-amount of navel-gazing and self-reproach in light of the (seemingly) united front posed by the right, the care taken to remember that black women can be lesbians, that lesbians can be mothers, that mothers can seek abortions, that men can be allies, class divisions. And how else to frame the ongoing discussion of choose-your-choice-feminism (it’s not a new thing, my friends!) than her questions: Why do we choose what we choose? What would we choose if we had a real choice?

(P.S. Emily, your parents are adorable and smart.)