You’re probably interested in gender politics, and you appreciate thoughtful writing that gets your brain going.

It’s rare to find a book that’s intriguing, profound, humorous, painful, and thought-provoking all rolled into one – but that’s Bad Feminist in a nutshell. In this collection of essays, Roxane Gay, a bisexual Woman of Color, draws on her academic and personal experience to discuss “what it’s like to move through the world as a woman.” It’s more a book of questions than a book of answers, and we found it asked us to examine our beliefs around what it means to be a feminist in a whole new way.