We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Overview

Based on the popular TEDx talk and the New York Times best-selling book, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s guided journal contains her most inspiring quotes, writing prompts, and an exclusive introductory essay. This beautifully illustrated hardcover journal is destined to empower and challenge, and help readers discover their own feminist journeys.

“Feminism for me has been about unlearning and learning. About daring—to want, to take, to be. About choosing to live with the belief that I fully matter. It is a process, a lifelong journey.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Now, in this beautiful journal, Adichie’s most inspirational words encourage you to find your own voice, to reflect on what feminism means to you, and to tell your own story. Featuring:

A series of guided writing prompts

Powerful and inspiring quotes

Important events in the history of feminism

Gorgeous illustrations

Her award-winning novels, including Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah; her stirring calls to arms We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele; her collaboration with Beyoncé; sharing the stage with Michelle Obama—each of these accomplishments has contributed to best-selling author and global feminist icon Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie becoming one of the most important feminist figures of our time. We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal promises to give readers the tools to both understand feminism and help them succeed at becoming better, more confident writers and communicators. The perfect gift for everyone—including yourself!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525658894
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	455,851
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.

Editorial Reviews

"We Should All Be Feminists: A Guided Journal is, really, a course about the world...Though it is, of course, based on the book within its title, it truly does go beyond what that book did so successfully (help destigmatize the concept of feminism) by laying out a daily practice that begins with understanding, and then coaxes out each reader’s engagement to come up with better definitions, better ideas, better ways for feminists of all sexes and races and sexual and identity preferences to exist in the world of men...It is a smart, informed guide to modern, intersectional feminist thought." —Anjanette Delgado, New York Journal of Books

"The hardbound volume is beautifully rendered in pages that will inspire introspection and self-revelation...The guided journal offers an invitation to reflect on lived experiences...it can be useful for anyone who wants to embark on a journey of self-discovery to examine deeply held beliefs, while also focusing attention on what can be done to advance the feminist cause." —Maileen Hamto, San Francisco Book Review

From the Publisher

10/01/2021

With We Should All Be Feminists, award-winning, multi-million-copy best-selling MacArthur author Adichie offers an illustrated journal that guides readers on their own feminist journeys. Arce, who worked hard to suppress her accent after immigrating to the United States from Mexico only to be told You Sound Like a White Girl, now rejects assimilation as an illusory and ultimately racist goal meant to keep her from belonging and instead argues for honoring one's culture; currently, she's collaborating with America Ferrera to develop Ferrera's My (Underground) American Dream for television (75,000-copy first printing). Following up 1999's No. 1 New York Times best-selling The Freedom Writers Diary, which inspired a film starring Hilary Swank and an Emmy award-winning documentary, Dear Freedom Writer is a compilation by contemporary Freedom Writers and teacher Gruwell of 50 more stories representing a new generation of high school students. As musician/activist Henry looks back on All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep—they thought he wasn't sufficiently polite when discussing racism or doubted it even existed—he argues that social justice will be achieved not through civil conversation or diversity hires but more direct ways of disrupting racial inequality and violence. With The Antiracist Deck, No. 1 New York Times best-selling antiracism champion Kendi presents not a book but a pack of 100 cards, each with a conversation starter—When did you first become aware of racism? When did you first become aware of your race? What does "resistance" mean to you? —meant to get people talking. In On the Line, Pitkin recalls working as a newly hired organizer for UNITE, an international garment workers union, to unionize Arizona's industrial laundry factories with the help of a second-shift immigrant factory worker pseudonymously named Alma Gomez-Garcia. A political reporter for the Daily Beast who has spent the last several years tracking QAnon, Sommer explains what it is, why it has gained traction, what dangers it poses, and how to shake adherents loose from its dogma in Trust the Plan (100,000-copy first printing). Chief economics correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Timiraos argues in Trillion Dollar Triage that the pandemic did not result in economic collapse owing to the efforts of Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (60,000-copy first printing). New York Times reporter Williamson's Sandy Hook reveals the ongoing tragedy of the killing of 26 people—including 20 children—at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012, with the parents of young victims harassed online, stalked, and even shot at and the very truth of the massacre denied by a group of conspiracy theorists whom she sees as profit motivated.

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