Are you a Harry Potter fan who always dreamt of talking about your favorite books with Hermione Granger? Are you a proud feminist who cheered through your computer screen as Emma Watson advocated for gender equality to the UN? If you fall into either of these categories, you should be jumping for joy right now, because actress, activist, UN Goodwill Ambassador and HeForShe founder Watson is starting a feminist book club!
The book group, which is called Our Shared Shelf is open to all and will spotlight a different book about equality each month. To sign up, just visit Goodreads. We have no doubt that the group will foster thought-provoking and empowering discussion.
The first book for the month of January is the feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s new memoir, My Life on the Road. And we can only imagine what other phenomenal works could follow. Books by renowned feminists and friends of Watson like bell hooks (note: a pen name is always uncapitalized) or Malala Yousafzai? Or how about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists, which was recently given to every single 16-year-old in Sweden (you might know it as the TED Talk sampled by Beyoncé on her track “***Flawless”)?
For now, though, My Life on the Road is available on Amazon and at UC Davis’s own Shields Library. Like her Hogwarts counterpart, Watson is a brilliant, accomplished and incredibly inspirational young woman who’s not afraid to stand up for her beliefs. This book club is a pretty great idea—it uses celeb status to encourage young fans around the world to learn even more about gender equality.
Oh, who am I kidding. HERMIONE GRANGER IS STARTING A FEMINIST BOOK CLUB. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. HERMIONE GRANGER IS STARTING A FEMINIST BOOK CLUB.
SIGN UP… NOW!