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Lindy West: The Witches Are Coming (2019, Hachette Books)

The Witches Are Coming

This book is full of righteous anger coated in wit and sprinkled with humorous anecdotes.

For example the famous bit about the trumpet (which I quoted earlier bookwyrm.social/user/ssweeny/quotation/3538582#anchor-3538582) starts a chapter about how a musical instrument exchange group on Facebook had to deal with a group of unruly racists.

The "Witches" in the title are, of course, feminists. If you consider yourself one or would like to this book is definitely worth a read. Probably even more so if you don't.

There was one thing that nagged at me as I was reading. This book was written in 2019. Before COVID, the 2020 election, the insurrection at the Capital. There's a lot of stuff about how Trump is terrible and enabling all sorts of evil stuff and the whole time I kept thinking to myself "sister, you have no idea..."