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Ep. 91 | Fight Like a Girl Ep. 91 | Fight Like a Girl [00:00:10] Kendra Hello, I'm Kendra Winchester, here with Sumaiyya Naseem. And this is Reading Women, a podcast inviting you to reclaim half the bookshelf by discussing books written by or about women. And this is episode 91, where we're talking about books around this month's theme, which is "Fight Like a Girl." [00:00:28] Sumaiyya You can find a complete transcript and a list of all the books mentioned today linked in our show notes. And don't forget to subscribe, so you don't miss a single episode. [00:00:39] Kendra So before we get started on this month's theme, we have some news. So last month in June, we delayed Reading Women Month out of respect for the protests that were happening all over the country and all over the world. And we really wanted to focus on raising awareness for Black Lives Matter and and supporting that in the best way that we could with our social media and different outlets. So we delayed Reading Women Month, and we started that up in late June instead of the beginning of June, which is when we typically do it. So because of that, we have extended our festivities into July, actually probably through the end of July. So you can still find Reading Women Month Bingo, all of our new merch, and the sale has been extended over in our Reading Women Store. [00:01:27] Sumaiyya And I think we have some new merch, right? [00:01:29] Kendra Yes. So we have mugs, if you're not a t-shirt person. If you are a t-shirt person, we have new t-shirts. [00:01:35] Sumaiyya I definitely need a new mug. [00:01:40] Kendra These have the Reading Women Month logo on them. And then on the back of the mug is our tagline, "Reclaim Half the Bookshelf." And I used mine just today. So. Big fan. Obviously. [00:01:50] Sumaiyya What did you have? Was it a coffee or a tea? [00:01:54] Kendra Well, actually, I make my tea and my coffee at the same time every morning, so I don't actually have to get up to go make the other one. [00:02:00] Sumaiyya Yeah. [00:02:01] Kendra So whatever I decide to have first. [00:02:04] Sumaiyya And that is very efficient. [00:02:07] Kendra Yeah. You know, I feel like when you start having mobility issues, you get all kinds of life hacks that you just never knew existed. Now I feel it's like it's my superpower. For sure. So those mugs will be in our Bonfire store. And of course, all the information for Reading Women Month will be linked in our show notes. [00:02:28] Sumaiyya So our theme this month is "Fight Like a Girl." And the goal is to talk about books by women that are essentially stories of women fighting back. So we are highlighting narratives of resistance. Kendra, did you have fun reading for the theme? [00:02:43] Kendra I did. I did. There were so many options. I remember when we first started talking about it a few months ago, you had this amazing, glorious list of all of these options. And I was like, where do I even start? [00:02:56] Sumaiyya Yeah. And this idea had been brewing for a while to talk about, you know, books that celebrate female strength. And the reason that we're titling it "Fight Like a Girl" is because obviously the expression was used as an insult, but women and girls around the world are reclaiming that expression to suggest that fighting like a girl is probably the greatest compliment of strength. And so with this theme, I wanted to urge people to think a little about that reclamation and the kinds of female strength that we celebrate in our communities through literature and art and also in popular culture. [00:03:33] Sumaiyya And one of the things that I actually wanted to highlight because—I don't know if your opinions on this are similar to mine, but I feel like they might be—I feel like there's this tendency to glorify and celebrate female characters in books and films who are using physical strength to fight back. And while I think that that kind of representation is important because a lot of people still think that women are physically weak, the reason I find this glorification of physical strength problematic is not just because it's ablest, but also because it comes from the same system that has created toxic masculinity and sees as physical strength as the greatest strength. I feel like being a female is so exhausting because, you know, we have to fight for things that we should not have to fight for. And it's a crazy world out there, particularly when you're a female. And there is a lot of stuff that we have to constantly deal with. And of course, the same goes for people who have been marginalized systemically. But I believe that all women are fighters and have strength that often goes unnoticed or is disregarded because patriarchal systems, you know, that are . societies that are built on generally don't want to see women as strong people. [00:04:52] Kendra Yeah, yeah. I really like what you said about how it's not just physical strength because that, you know, that ideal strength—which in a patriarchal structure is physical strength—isn't necessarily actually the strongest thing that a person can be. And there are so many different ways that women have strength and the ways that they can fight back. And I really love that because I think so often when women are emotional about whatever, it's considered as a fault, but it's not. You know, women have such a beautiful range of emotions and are generally more in tune with their emotions, which I do believe is one of our strengths. [00:05:31] Sumaiyya Definitely. And I think, you know, mental strength, intellectual strength, even emotional intelligence and strength are things that we have to nurture because of all the things that we deal with that people don't even want to see that we're leading with that, you know, are meant to be these natural experiences when, in fact, it's patriarchy telling us what we can do and can't do. And obviously, you know, with this also, there's a problem that men don't experience the full range of emotions because they're so focused on not trying to look weak, which, again, you know, is toxic masculinity. So if we start celebrating all kinds of strength, it's not just good for women, it's also good for men. [00:06:17] Kendra So we have a wide range of books today between Sumaiyya, myself, and RuthAnn, who will be on later in the show. We have a wide range of women who are advocating for themselves and fighting the systems that they find themselves in and a wide range. It just happened kind of really naturally the way that the books that we chose kind of really fit well together under this theme. And I can't wait to get started. [00:06:45] Sumaiyya Yeah. And I think that literature is one of the prime ways of fighting back by writing and by sharing stories. [00:06:54] Kendra So Sumaiyya, you have the first pick today. [00:06:57] Sumaiyya So my first pick is PASSAGE TO THE PLAZA by Sahar Khalifeh. This was translated from the Arabic by Sawad Hussain. But actually the book was originally published in 1990 and is considered and a classic in Arabic literature. So it's been a while since this book has been out there, but it's finally accessible for people who are reading in English. And it has also appeared on prestigious lists of the best novels in Arabic. So, Sahar Khalifeh is a prolific feminist fighter from Palestine. This was actually the first book that I read by her. But I've heard a lot about her books, and I think four or five of them have been translated to English. So they are on my TBR. The historical setting of PASSAGE TO THE PLAZA is 1987. That's a significant year in recent Palestinian history because that's the year of the first. That was the first year of the intifada or uprising against the Israeli occupation. And that's the year it began. So Khalifeh writes about the gendered female experience of revolution by bringing together three female characters who are very different types of women whose ideologies and experiences are contradictory. And this in itself shows you how multifaceted the female experience actually is. [00:08:26] Sumaiyya So the three women are Sitt Zakia, who is an older woman. She is a midwife. And she's known for her piety, and she's generally seen as this harmless old lady. Samar is a university researcher who's writing about the impact of the revolution on women. She is ambitious and idealistic. And in the novel, her plan is actually to write about women by interviewing them. So this includes Sitt Zakia, who she's interviewing, and the other main character, Nuzha. So basically she wants to document the particular experience of women during war and occupation.
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