A generation forward on the same path we’re currently trekking finds a world suffering even more extreme consequences of climate change driving a select few to enter protected weather-proofed indoor communities to ensure survival. One such community, located in New York City, is founded by #GirlBoss billionaire CEO and fourth-wave feminist Jacqueline Millender whose Inside Project space is furnished with soft pinks and mauves filled with a disturbing number of white, educated, upper middle class women, and founded on the idea that in order to heal our world the patriarchy must be eliminated. While Millender decamps with the other 1%ers to spaceships orbiting our dying planet her feminist utopia upstart slides towards a dystopic future.
Yours for the Taking {#gifted @stmartinspress} offers some truly interesting ideas for consideration about power structures, systems of stratification and exploitation, and the necessary elements for a functional society. While I really dug the concepts I do wish I had found the narrative a little more compelling. Still plenty to appreciate here and I hear there is a forthcoming sequel, which I’d be interested to read.
That Bookish Life 