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In Believe Me, contributors ask and answer the crucial question: What would happen if we didn't just believe women, but acted as though they matter? If we take women's experiences of online harassment seriously, it will transform the internet. If we listen to and center survivors, we could revolutionize our systems of justice. If we believe Black women when they talk about pain, we will save countless lives.

This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. Activist author Marissa LaRocca’s revelatory tale includes her struggle with her secrets, including sexuality, and how she emerged as an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues.

Listen, listen and listen. This is probably what you were looking for! To listen to a voice that has a lot of drama and melancholy, joy and sorrow, hope and determination and above all, a connection. A connection to your heart where you realise that you are not alone.

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Este libro nos descubre las herramientas para vivir y sentir hasta reventar a todas las mujeres que una mujer lleva dentro. Desde que suena el despertador el lunes hasta que cerramos los ojos el domingo, es difícil gestionar todas las emociones de esta empresa tan compleja (que no complicada) que es una mujer. Para sobrevivir a todo lo que nos demandamos constantemente necesitamos pautas y mucha información, además del consejo y modelo de otras mujeres extraordinarias como las mujeres brújula que la autora ha invitado a participar en las páginas de este libro.

Whatever became of the youth of the 60s, the turbulent era of sex, drugs and rock & roll? Kid Me Not, a new collection of intimate stories by women from the first generation ever to have access to The Pill, offers a unique perspective on the decade before Roe v. Wade, when free love wasn't always free. As the women's movement spread, these women faced a future of extraordinary possibilities possibilities seen by today's youth as commonplace.

Movimento MeToo, divario retributivo di genere, manspreading, catcalling - questi termini si sentono sempre più spesso al giorno d'oggi, e ruotano tutti intorno ad un unico argomento: il femminismo. Il femminismo riguarda tutti noi e una solida conoscenza di base dell'argomento è essenziale, soprattutto oggi. In questo libro, imparerà a conoscere il significato di tutti questi termini e il loro rapporto con il femminismo. Ma cos'è esattamente il femminismo? Non abbiamo tutti uguali diritti da molto tempo? In quali settori il femminismo è necessario? Il femminismo aiuta anche gli uomini?

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese auntie, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule.

Why we matter. Von Kindesbeinen an zieht es Ana Milva Gomes auf die Bühne. Mit außergewöhnlichem Talent, viel harter Arbeit und unbändigem Willen erkämpft sich die Tochter kapverdischer Immigranten erfolgreich Musical-Hauptrollen in »Mamma Mia!«, »Sister Act« oder »Cats«. Doch abseits des Scheinwerferlichts stößt die sympathische Künstlerin immer wieder an die Grenzen einer monochromen Gesellschaft.