⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi

This important book recognises the link between misogyny and racism, and connects several other topics including Islamophobia, transphobia, and the false – and harmful – narratives around sex work that make women unsafe.

Olufemi asks us to interrogate how violence towards women sits in the laps of violent men – especially when those men are decision makers, creating a society which fails to protect women and in fact punishes them through things like austerity (which predominantly affects women).

The author emphasises that although the discussion – and progress – has taken different shapes over the centuries, white, middle class, “neoIiberal” feminism often (wrongly) centres money, work and representation as the goal; she explains that having women in government who just uphold systems of oppression isn’t “progress”.

Instead, Olufemi asks us to interrogate those systems, particularly where those keep black and brown women in poverty, out of work and away from opportunity, through being discriminated against or criminalised.

In the end, feminism is a daily commitment to improve the lives of women, and by extension everyone. Because if we don’t, things are only going to get worse. This book is a call to action with that in mind.

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