Feminist Books I Want to Buy Bila Kaya 🫡

Good morning 🍋8️⃣ residents,

I went to Kinokuniya Shinjuku Main Store last week and found so many great feminist texts but they’re mad expensive 🥲 Hopefully with this year’s duit raya (boleh dapat ke lagi eh) I can buy one of these gems!

1- BLACK GIRL FROM PYONGYANG by Monica Macias

In 1979, seven-year-old Monica Macias was sent by her father Francisco, the president of Equitorial Guinea, to the beautiful, unfamiliar surroundings of North Korea, to be educated under the guardianship of Kim Il Sung. Within months, her father was executed in a military coup; her mother became unreachable. Effectively orphaned, she and two siblings had to make their life in Pyongyang. At military boarding school, Monica learned to mix with older children, speak fluent Korean and handle weapons on training exercises. But, reaching adulthood and hearing about life beyond North Kroea's borders, she yearned to go in search of her roots. Her journey took her to Madrid, Malabo, then New York, Seoul, and finally London, and with every step she was forced to reckon with her own beliefs about the West and its perceptions of her adopted homeland. Optimistic yet unflinching, Monica's astonishing and unique story challenges us to see the world through different eyes.

2- WOMEN WHO RUN: 70 EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN WHO SHAPED POLITICS by Ross Ball

Did you know that Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka was the first woman in the world to become a democratically elected prime minister? That Tina Anselmi of Italy was a wartime resistance fighter who became the first woman to serve as a cabinet minister? Or that Sylvie Kinigi of Burundi was the first woman to serve as a prime minister in Africa? It is high time these extraordinary women who helped shape our world became household names, and this book brings them at last to the fore.

3- REGRETTING MOTHERHOOD: A STUDY by Orna Donath

Donath treats regret as a feminist issue: as regret marks the road not taken, we need to consider whether alternative paths for women may currently be blocked off. Donath asks that we pay attention to what is forbidden by our contemporary rules governing motherhood, time, and emotion, including the cultural assumption that motherhood is a “natural” role for women—for the sake of all women, not just those who regret becoming mothers.

Stay tuned for part 2!

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