The For Harriet Reader Vol.

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Every two weeks, For Harriet’s editor-in-chief, Kimberly Foster, reviews the books, articles,
podcast and videos that have most impacted her thinking and lists them here. Kimberly does
not necessarily endorse all of the arguments presented in these pieces, but they are useful
catalysts for thoughtful meditation on our current sociopolitical landscape.

•Sexuality
- Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New
Racism, Patricia Hill Collins
•Reproductive Justice
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of
Liberty, Dorothy Roberts
•Masculinity
- Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity
Chapter 4, Ann Arnett Ferguson
- Manhood, Now, WNYC
•Entertainment
- HOW OPRAH’S NETWORK FINALLY FOUND ITS VOICE, Jason
Parham
•Feminism
- The Other Whisper Network: How Twitter feminism is bad for
women, Katie Roiphe
- A Conversation With Katie Roiphe
- Black feminism and intersectionality, Sharon Smith
- In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, Alice
Walker
- All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks
- Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks
•Race
- Can you be BLACK and Look at This?: Reading the Rodney King
Video, Elizabeth Alexander
•Sexual Assault
- Should Statutes of Limitations for Rape Be Abolished?, Ruth
Padawer