Less than a month after it was revealed that the UK is planning to drop feminism from the politics A-level, every 16-year-old in Sweden is being given a copy of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s call to arms, We Should All Be Feminists.
The essay, adapted from Adichie’s award-winning TED talk of the same name, is being distributed in Swedish to high-school students by the Swedish Women’s Lobby and publisher Albert Bonniers. Launching the project at Norra Real high school in Stockholm this week, they said they hoped the book would “work as a stepping stone for a discussion about gender equality and feminism”.
Adichie’s essay was published in English last autumn. The 2012 TED talk has been watched by more than 2 million people on YouTube and was sampled by Beyoncé in her single Flawless, including the lines: “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, ‘You can have ambition, but not too much.’”
A picture of Chimamanda in the OP would've been nice, you know since she's the author of the book
I'm a huge Chimamanda fan (and have been since before ***Flawless) but Beyonce is the bigger star on ATRL so her picture felt more fitting. She also brought a lot of the speech's success.
But Beyonce is only using this as a gimmick, she doesn't bring awarness to feminism??? how the hell did this happen??
This has little to nothing to do with Bey?
She used part of a speech that's about to be given to Swedish teens in one of her songs, we know this because we're pop music fans, but most people really don't
I recently started reading "Americanah" and is quite good.