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Anna Naomi
@thefeministreads.bsky.social
Reading feminist stories for meaning, memory, and resistance.
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Reading feminist theory and then returning to “classic literature” is a radical act of rereading.
January 17, 2026 at 9:45 PM
A feminist bookshelf isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about unlearning what you were told was “normal.”
January 16, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Every time a novel frames female suffering as “character development,” a feminist reader flinches a little.
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Feminist Reads Reminder: If a book calls a woman “unlikable,” ask yourself who she’s unlike and why that’s a problem
January 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
You’re allowed to write grief without tying it into a lesson.
January 13, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Not every piece has to be brave. Sometimes it just has to be real.
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
It’s okay if your writing is tired. You are writing inside reality, not above it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
What’s a book you think about more than you talk about?
January 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
“We have no future any more. All we can do is entertain ourselves by conversing.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
January 9, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Some days writing is a protest. Some days it’s a refuge. Both count.
January 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
You don’t owe the world hope today. You owe yourself honesty.
January 8, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Writing doesn’t fix the world, but it refuses to look away.
January 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Writing is how I refuse numbness. Silence is what power prefers. Writing is how we stay human.
January 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
I Who Have Never Known Men: The Intersection of Time and Identity
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I Who Have Never Known Men: The Intersection of Time and Identity
Exploring the Work of Jacqueline Harpman
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Writing in heavy times isn’t about optimism. It’s about witness. When the world is loud, writing can be a place to tell the truth anyway.
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Thinking about myth not as past, but as memories that keep happening
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Time in myth is circular. Time in capitalism is a straight line. Fiction lets me choose which one I believe.
January 4, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Jacqueline Harpman was a Belgian psychoanalyst and writer whose work explores memory, identity, and the inner lives of women. I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting example of her emotional depth.
January 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
“For the first time, I understood that I was living at the very heart of despair. I had insulated myself from it, believing that it was out of bitterness, but suddenly I realised it was out of caution.”

― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
January 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This month, we're starting Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men. A story about solitude, survival, and the inner life of a woman untethered from expectation. Who’s reading along?
January 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
“I have spent my whole life doing I don’t know what, but it hasn’t made me happy.”

― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Reposted by Anna Naomi
Any amount of books (above zero) is the perfect amount of books to read in a year.
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 PM