essays – Page 6 – The Staircase Window

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Cool, Calm & Contentious

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger

What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

Your Art Will Save Your Life

I Know What I’m Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction

Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World

Tonight I’m Someone Else

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

Figuring

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms

How Not to Fall Apart

King Kong Theory

Feel Free

So You Want to Talk About Race

The Secret Lives of Color

No One Tells You This

I Hate Everyone… Starting with Me

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

I Don’t Care About Your Band

So Sad Today

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Bluets

Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art

The Essential Nawal El Saadaw

It Chooses You

Things My Mother Taught Me

Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life

Scrappy Little Nobody

Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World

Men Explain Things to Me

The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border

Everything is Perfect When You’re a Liar

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Brave Enough

Just As I Thought

Pamela Hansford Johnson: A Writing Life

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: A Woman’s Guide to Coping with Life

The Argonauts

How to Become a Writer

Lives Lived, Lives Imagined

Wildflower

I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories Wild Possibilities

Bad Feminist

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Marilyn Norma Jeane

Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

Three Guineas

Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics

we are never meeting in real life

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Doing Women’s Film History: Reframing Cinemas, Past and Future

We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

When You Find Out the World is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments

I’ll Tell You in Person

Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home

Power: Surviving & Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse

Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults

Draw Your Weapons

Life In Code: A Personal History of Technology

How to Be a Woman

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

The White Album

A Room of One’s Own

Sex Object: A Memoir

The Geek Feminist Revolution

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

We Should All Be Feminists

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Difficult Women

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

Why I Am Not a Feminist

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Mother of All Questions

The Year of Magical Thinking