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Juliet takes a breath age appropriate6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() There are no answers or pathways-unlike Harlow Brisbane’s book, where tracking your menstrual moon cycle is the key to understanding the universe, and where womanhood is a wide expanse of expression only if you possess a working uterus-just methods of understanding. ![]() This book examines white liberalism in general and hippies in particular, especially that of white womanhood and white feminism, and all of the contradictions that that entails. I grew up steeped in this very brand of white hippy feminism, and holy hell has it been a struggle to get out of and unfuck my brain. ![]() This might seem overly harsh, but I am from Oregon, and went to high school in the very liberal (and very white) city of Eugene, which shares many of Portland’s ideals and a similar lack of introspection. But instead of learning about the mysticisms of womanhood, Juliet is confronted in a world of contradictions and white feminist hippies, and is forced to discover what it means to be at the intersection of brown, Latinx, gay and female.Įverything about this book is absolutely fantastic, from its insightful skewering of second wave feminism to its critical analysis on the LGBTQIAP+’s gatekeeping to life in Portland, Oregon, home of hippies and hypocrites. Puerto Rican and brown and from the Bronx, she comes out to her parents just before stepping off a plane to begin a summer internship with Harlowe Brisbane, the Pussy Power feminist who is about to change her life. Juliet is a baby dyke about to enter her second year of college. ![]()
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