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Cherry Bomb Zine needs your submissions! If you want to write something for the zine but don’t know where to start, think about how you feel about sexuality and the media’s portrayal, how you portray your sexuality, body image, how you found riot grrrl, what you feel is most empowering/discouraging about identifying as a girl/woman, role models, rape culture, harassment, girl love, or anything else you can think of. We want to hear your voice! Your opinion matters.

khaleesi:

A GREAT BIG GIANT ASS LIST OF FEMINIST LIT. Being both a starter kit of sorts and a list of titles that are important to the history of feminism or current feminist movement.  

Please note: The author of this post has not read everything suggested here but has compiled this list based on recommendations, academic courses, etc. Many of these texts are admittedly problematic, but are included because this feminist believes it’s important to know where we’ve come from in order to move forward.

Go forth and read! And feel free to add titles if you reblog!

NEW TO FEMINISM?
Manifesta by Jennifer Baumgardner
Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Full-Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

DIG IN!
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Backlash by Susan Faludi
No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women by Estelle B. Freedman
The Essential Feminist Reader edited by Estelle B. Freedman
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism by Daisy Hernandez
Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
Feminism Without Borders by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes by Lillian Robinson
The Spiral Dance by Starhawk
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft; BUY IT | READ IT ONLINE
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolfe

FEMINISM AND THE BODY:
Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo 
FAT!SO? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize For Your Size by Marilyn Wann
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf 

FEMINISTS DO IT BETTER.
Yes Means Yes! Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti 
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Judy Norsigian and the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti

GET INVOLVED!
Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards, and Winona LaDuke
Leading the Way: Young Women’s Activism for Social Change by Mary K. Trigg 

(Source: magicmermaids, via theciariotzine)

shmadies:

I found this on Facebook and wanted to share.

TW: Street Harassment

So today I was walking downtown and some guy thought it was in his right to come up to me to tell me that he thought that not only was I attractive, but he believed that he was attractive and thought that he could sense chemistry from afar. I told him very firmly to back off while walking away and he continued to talk and follow me, trying to lure me with the line “you look like you’re very sad, and I thought you could use someone to talk to.” I continued walking away but left feeling quite violated. It wasn’t just what he said, but how he said it and how he looked at me even when I explicitly expressed my disinterest.

Have any of you ever been street harassed? If so, how do you deal with it?

From Cherry Bomb Zine, Issue #2

Article and course of action on the Canadian bill in consideration, M132, that would allow for the criminalization of abortion. From Cherry Bomb #2, Available here.

Does anyone have any ideas on issues or things that relate to feminist issues that should be brought to people’s awareness?

If so let me know - I need some ideas for the next issue of the zine!

And as always, submit away if there is something you’d like to be heard for! The next issue can’t come out until we’ve got enough to publish, so consider this your sign :)