HPU Library & Learning Commons Celebrates Women's History Month
This March, the HPU Library & Learning Commons honors Women's History Month by showcasing books, poetry, podcasts, and more that celebrate the achievements, contributions, and history of women. Explore stories of resilience, leadership, and innovation across various fields.
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Hosted and produced by Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson, What'sHerName "tells the stories of fascinating women you’ve never heard of (but should have). Through compelling interviews with guest historians, writers, and scholars, Katie and Olivia bring to life the 'lost' women of history. Fascinating and funny, thought-provoking and thoughtful, What’sHerName restores women’s voices to the conversation."
Badass Women of History Podcast
In each episode, longtime friend Gillian and Kendra "take a deeper look at and feature one of many overlooked, sidelined, and less than famous Badass Women in History and ask, what would they do in times like these?"
The Waves of Feminism, and Why People Keep Fighting Over Them, Explained
Constance Grady for Vox breaks down the history of feminist waves, and where we may be today.
Feminism Is for Everybody by 
Good and Mad by 
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf by 
Circe by 
Kindred by
Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.") From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur "Genius" Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. "I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm." Dana's torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner's plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction's oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present. "Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise" (New York Times). "Reading Octavia Butler taught me to dream big, and I think it's absolutely necessary that everybody have that freedom and that willingness to dream." --N. K. Jemisin This book has been published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the cover available.
"The mission of Women’s Fund of Hawaii is to support innovative, grassroots programs that empower women and girls statewide. The Fund provides information and education on women’s and girls’ philanthropy, shines a light on women’s and girls’ issues, and increases the visibility of our grantees."
Hawai’i/Oahu Chapter of AF3IRM
"With a history of over 20 years of women’s organizing, activism, and struggle, AF3IRM was launched as a organization in 2010, based on a comprehensive analysis of class, race, gender, and sexuality focused on conducting militant movement-building from the United States with a transnational, feminist perspective."
Use these questions to keep exploring. Think through them, journal, or discuss with a friend.
1. What did you learn about Women's History in school? What do you think about the quality and depth of what you learned?
2. In what ways do you support and honor equality between all genders? How can you start doing so, or continue to do so?
