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Ah, the holidays. A time for family, gift-giving, ignoring really ignorant comments from your older relatives, and fighting at the din- wait a minute. When did this shit get so complex?

Being a feminist can be really hard around the holidays, and so can being friends with one. What do you buy someone who fuels themselves only on the knowledge that the world is an inherently imbalanced structure built to take advantage of people made the most vulnerable by its constructs? How do you please someone who knows how to spell, pronounce, and distinguish the works of every single feminist scholar – and their names? And how the fuck do you shop for someone who is about as unique as a snowflake with ten times the brutal honesty?

I got you covered. From the beginners to the Silent Swig of Wine During “The Good Old Days” Conversation At Dessert, there’s an item that will fit in the stocking of your favorite feminist this year and live on in their hearts until the age of post-feminism. (Spoiler Alert: they’ll die first.) From books to documentaries to tee shirts, you’ll find that the Internet hath provided ample opportunities for feminists to learn and brag about what they’ve learned to each other this season.

For Readers

‘Tis the season to be totally antisocial in the car.

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The Women’s Studies Set

A Little F’ed Up: Why Feminism is Not a Dirty Word by Julie Zeilinger
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters by Jessica Valenti
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
Feminism and Pop Culture by Andi Zeisler
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure edited by Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive by Julia Serano
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues by Angela Davis
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
The Book of Jezebel by Anna Holmes, Kate Harding, and Amanda Hess
The Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms (preface by Kathleen Hanna, introduction by Johanna Fateman!)
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein

Identities and Intersections

Dreaming of Baghdad by Haifa Zangana
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
+ Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – A Biomythography by Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua
The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology

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Interactive and/or Beautiful

The Big Coloring Book of Vaginas by Morgan Hastings
Girls Are Not Chicks Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak
My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity by Kate Bornstein
+ Women by Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz
+ What You Really Really Want by Jaclyn Friedman

Magazines

Ms.
Bust 
Bitch

Seeing is Believing

Sometimes, you’re 19 and you watch a historical made-for-TV movie about Alice Paul and your life is never the same again.

Documentaries

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide
From The Back Of The Room
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
Miss Representation
Makers: Women Who Make America
The Black Power Mixtape

People Being Themselves

Margaret Cho – Revolution
Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour

Historical Fiction

Iron Jawed Angels

Waiting to Exhale

Waiting to Exhale

The Rest

For the girl on the go, a Wonder Woman reusable cold cup. “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” gear always hits the spot for those of us who really do wanna wear it on our sleeves.

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And for the rest of us: feminist finger puppets. Because those three words are all relevant to your life.


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