![]() ![]() ![]() I struggled to relate to a lot of her work because she is so mainstream. ![]() I knew she had quite the social media following, and my impression was that she was in that category of inspirational speakers and motivational self-help that is usually geared toward white wealthy mainstream women, and of which I tend to be very critical for the ways it reinforces capitalism, hegemony, beauty standards, and even patriarchy. I was skeptical because I knew who Glennon Doyle was: a white, feminine woman with a conservative Christian background who fell in love with a (famous, queer) woman (soccer player Abby Wombach - who also wrote a book, Wolfpack) and left her husband. ![]() It does have a little bit about it, but it’s just one medium-length essay among dozens of others - not even a major theme, really. I was disappointed to see so little of that in the book, but that’s not Glennon’s fault - I had bad information. I knew it was a memoir, but someone told me it also addressed her personal journey with her own whiteness and coming to an anti-racist identity. Remember back in May 2020 when nearly the entire bestseller list was taken up by anti-racist titles such as How To Be An Anti-Racist, Me & White Supremacy, and My Grandmother’s Hands? Untamed was also on there, and I felt skeptical about a white woman’s voice being amplified so loudly during such a critical time. ![]()
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