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We’re gonna say straight up that it’s not our place to take a stance on the primaries. Instead, we’re giving away this set of titles from Seal Press authors so that they might help our readers gain perspective on Hillary and on the issues surrounding a woman on the campaign trail.

We have two bundles to giveaway, and we’re picking winners on June 20th, 2016! 

Enter the giveaway here:

https://gleam.io/61NwS/presidential-book-bundle-giveaway

How to be crafty* in two three easy steps, a Seal Press primer

1) download these activity pages that come straight from  @gemmacorrell‘s amaaaaazing book

Feminist Merit Badges (PDF, 1.7mb)

Anti-Street Harassment Kit (PDF, 1.8mb)

2) draw, doodle, and put your own feminist spin on things

3.) profit show off your hard work and make sure we can ooh and aah by tagging for feminist activity book (or #feministactivitybook on Instagram, which we’re totally on btw, not that we want you to follow us there or anything, except that we totally do because we’re sure that you’re a lovely person.)

On National Donut Day, a friendly remember that FOOD IS NEUTRAL!

You’re not being “bad” if you nom a treat. <3

Happy National Donut Day! Did you know it began in celebration of women’s contributions to the war effort?

"During World War I, women volunteering for the Salvation Army made doughnuts for soldiers serving overseas as a way to boost morale. National Doughnut Day was launched in 1938 by the Chicago branch of the Salvation Army, in part as a way to raise funds for, and awareness of, the organization’s work in the community. But the spirit behind the day was the recognition of these women’s contribution to the war effort.” —The Surprising History Behind National Doughnut Day, Time.com 

We’ll eat to that.

The Feminist InActivity Book by @gemmacorrell. #ScaleBackABook

As you may have seen on Google, today would have been Yuri Kochiyama's 95th birthday. To honor her memory, we wanted to reshare this artwork and her profile from the Seal Celebrates Women campaign published during Women's History Month.

Yuri Kochiyama’s life changed on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Practically overnight, she went from grade-school teacher to internment camp prisoner, as she and her remaining family were forcibly relocated.

Once freed, she and her husband Bill Kochiyama moved to Harlem in New York City and Yuri began participating in sit-ins, inviting the Freedom Riders to speak at open-houses she held in her apartment. The momentum of the Civil Rights and especially the Black Nationalist Movement captured Kochiyama’s focus, and shortly thereafter she befriended Malcolm X, communicating with him through letters and postcards for more than a year. She was present at his assassination, and a famous Life magazine photo shows her cradling his head in her hands moments after he was shot.

Yuri became increasingly involved and radicalized in various components of the Civil Rights Movement and, in 2005, she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.