{"id":2164,"date":"2021-09-08T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.womensfundingnetwork.org\/women-funded-2021\/?page_id=2164"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T11:44:53","slug":"featured-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/info.womensfundingnetwork.org\/women-funded-2021\/featured-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Book is Feminist: An Intersectional Primer for Next-Gen Changemakers<\/h2>\n

By Jamia Wilson
\nIllustrated by Aur\u00e9lia Durand
\nPublished by Quarto Publishing<\/p>\n

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Meet Jamia Wilson, author of\u00a0This Book is Feminist:<\/a>\u00a0An Intersectional Primer for Next-Gen Changemakers.\u00a0Jamia is a feminist activist, writer, and speaker, and the featured author at Women Funded 2021: The Feminist Factor.\u00a0Jamia\u2019s groundbreaking new\u00a0work is one of the featured items\u00a0conference participants will receive that includes a carefully curated selection of goods from women and women of color owned small businesses.<\/p>\n

Jamia\u00a0joined Random House as Vice President and Executive Editor in 2021. As the former director of the Feminist Press at the\u00a0City University of New York and the former VP of Programs at the Women\u2019s Media Center,\u00a0Jamia has been a leading voice on women\u2019s rights issues for over a decade.<\/p>\n

She is also the\u00a0author of<\/a>\u00a0Young, Gifted, and Black, the introduction and oral history in Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World, Step Into Your Power: 23 Lessons on How to Live Your Best Life, Big Ideas for Young Thinkers, ABC\u2019s of AOC, and the co-author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Advocacy, and Activism for All.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0a children\u2019s book<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0a unique choice for a global feminist conference, Jamia\u2019s writing and Aur\u00e9lia\u2019s illustrations\u00a0examine\u00a0global\u00a0intersectional feminism in\u00a0accessible\u00a0language\u00a0for all\u00a0ages and\u00a0speaks to our shared goal to nurture\u00a0and advance multigenerational\u00a0feminist ideals.<\/p>\n

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