Damned Scribbling Women

DSW Episode 5: Replace William Golding with Octavia Butler, Shirley Jackson & Maya Angelou


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Lord of the Flies is 200 pages of mediocre toxic masculinity, so how about we dump this thing for some better books that explore lateral themes, written by some far more talented and intelligent ladies that maybe include women characters portrayed as actual humans who exist? Let’s do this!

Octavia Butler * Kindred * Parable of the Sower * Parable of the Talents

Shirley Jackson * The Lottery * We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Maya Angelou * I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings * On the Pulse of Morning

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