A review by rachelg8489
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

5.0

Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti's earlier anthology, Yes Means Yes, was one of those books that I encountered at the right moment for it to be absolutely formative to my feminist awakening. A decade later (and an internship for and later friendship with Jaclyn), Believe Me made me think about similar topics in new and exciting ways, and I'm brought back to my college-age self, holed up in her dorm room reading those earlier essays. I especially recommend the essays from Moira Donegan and Sady Doyle, but they're all fantastic, and we're all lucky to have this anthology in 2020.