What’s On Your Nightstand?

What's on Your Nightstand?

BOLDERS in the Media

 

Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause – August 19 Episode

 

The podcast is an intergenerational space for BIPOC women, especially those over 50. In this episode, our host, BOLDer connects with her inner 12 year old with the inner 12 year old of feminist writer, activist and journalist Mona Eltahawy as they share our journeys around identity, healing, reclamation, power, voice and story. And there is a big shout out to BOLD!

 

How A New Wave of Black Activists Changed the Conversation

 

Check out this story by Jenna Wortham in the New York Times, featuring many BOLDERS, including Black Visions Collective and Prentis Hemphill.

 

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

 

In these powerful and personal reflections, just released, Alicia Garza shares her personal story and the lessons of the new generation of movement organizers of which she’s played a leading role. 

 

Charlene Carruthers: Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

 

Charlene Carruthers gives us a dose of her radical feminism in this essential testimony and guide for the movement for Black Lives. 

 

What We’re Watching

 

Lingua Franca

 

A film by Isabel Sandoval about a woman who like her, is a transgender Filipina, exploring complicated questions of sexual identity in a perilous time for immigrants in Trump’s America. 

 

Belly of the Beast

 

When an unlikely duo discovers a pattern of illegal sterilizations in women’s prisons, they wage a near impossible battle against the Department of Corrections. Filmed over seven years with extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people, Belly of the Beast exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California prisons.