Research & Literature

The ‘me too.’ Movement presents this collection of resources as one of the many places you can start your healing journey. Whether you find a memoir that lets you go inside the mind of an actual survivor through their first-person account of harm and healing, or you want to read up on statistics and research that can propel your own healing or activism, this ever-expanding library is for you.

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Blueprint for Investing in Girls and Young Women

The New York Women's Foundation | 2015

The New York Women’s Foundation’s Blueprint for Investing in Women series comprises of four reports that explore the position, strengths, needs, and best strategies for promoting the economic security of NYC women, across the full span of their lifetimes. In line with NYWF’s core mission, the series particularly focuses on the situations of women whose opportunities for progress are limited by outside factors or attitudes related to initial economic position, race, immigration status, or sexual orientation/gender identity.

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CROSSFIRE: A Litany for Survival

Staceyann Chin, Haymarket Books, Poetry

The opening poem and book title “Crossfire” blazes off the page and burns bright in searing, unapologetic declarations of the author’s soul. Chin’s poetry sets up school, where words hit different parts of you and initiates new classes all over the map of your body with multiple revelations and layered lessons. Her poems span the breadth of human existence and dives into everything from motherhood, homelands, domestic violence, race, and marriage, to the historic and current lynching of black bodies, lineage, and the complexities of family and sexuality. She refreshingly explores love and heartbreak that we all feel, tryst with and live through. In “Tweet This Motherfucker,” Chin’s words decimate ignorance by turning her poetry into sharp, hot knives that sear through misogyny, patriarchy, homophobia, and a distorted soul crying out for help. Still other poems set off bombs in the face of the current occupant of the white house and his administration, war, fake news and rape culture. She writes for the impoverished, with her poetry holding the untouchable and hugging the forgotten from children of war to Australian Aborigines. She loves up on black and brown folk and calls for a healing and an uprising. She writes, “Every kind of resistance is necessary when the arm of injustice persists.” Chin’s poetry will likely be transformative to the reader and is the fire we need to clear new pathways. Her book voices the voiceless, holds fire to the feet of enemies and is the conflagration of purpose, needed to change and empower us all.

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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Kate Manne, Oxford University Press, 2019, Non-fiction

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, by Kate Manne, is a compilation of research on misogyny, with examples from literature and lived realities. Although filled with endless examples of men behaving badly (and coddled by women trained to see it as normal), the book is short on hope, a fact the author acknowledges. The reader is left to create solutions.

Despite being a textbook, the author uses metaphors that create mind-pictures the reader will carry throughout the reading: women as “human giving”; the lunacy of “fighting fire with oxygen just because we blow out lit candles”; describing the surplus of credibility enjoyed by men as “himpathy.”

She opens by defining misogyny as a self-masking phenomenon and “the law enforcement branch of a patriarchal order.”

The book gets denser (and tenser) as she explores the effects of misogyny on women, pulling from notable examples of misogyny as practiced by Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump, and as subsequently experienced by Sandra Fluke and Hilary Clinton (as well as women on the sidelines rooting for Limbaugh and Trump’s demise). The bottom line is Rush lost a few advertisers and eventually apologized (sort of) and Trump was elected to the presidency, in large part, by white women who “himpathized” with him as a son, brother, uncle and business ally.

This book is recommended for those looking to understand the complex dynamics of how misogyny exists in a society that is free to create rules, then break, revise and reform them, yet does not.

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