Moxie
Now a Netflix Original Film directed by Amy Poehler!
"Moxie is sweet, funny, and fierce. Read this and then join the fight."—Amy Poehler
An unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texas high school in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, author of The Truth About Alice.
MOXIE GIRLS FIGHT BACK!
Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with an administration at her high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment, and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.
Viv's mom was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She's just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.
Moxie is a book about high school life that will make you wanna riot!
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But mostly reading Moxie just made me mad. In a good way.
This well-written young adult novel does many things right: friendships, first love, and familial relationships. I loved Viv and her best friend Claudia's relationship, as well as, Viv's new friendship with Lucy. I appreciated that the author gave us a male/female relationship that was positive but still not perfect, in a book about feminism. And it was refreshing to see a parent that wasn't a typical book parent.
There were a few things that I wish had been handled differently---things the film did much better---like teachers that weren't completely useless. It was hard to imagine while I was reading that there were NO adults in the school that actually cared about their students.
The author got the sexist treatment of female students by male students spot-on. I look back flabbergasted at how we females just accepted that our bras would be snapped, our butts would be grabbed, or our breasts would be "accidentally" brushed. I want to go back and start my own rebellion.
And the unbalanced dress code… I actually did at least speak out about that when I was in school. I wrote an editorial as co-editor of our high school newspaper about how unfair the dress code was after I was taken to the principal’s office for having shorts that were a fourth of a inch too short while the cheerleaders were allowed to wear their much shorter skirts or “athletic” shorts. BUT they were acceptable because they were considered a “uniform.” Give me a break.
Maybe I still have some unresolved feelings about that. ;)
Moxie reminded me that things are better but we still have a long way to go---and that (thankfully) I've raised two daughters who stand up against the kind of treatment I just accepted as normal.
“…it occurs to me that this is what it means to be a feminist. Not a humanist or an equalist or whatever. But a feminist. It’s not a bad word. Because really all it is is girls supporting each other and wanting to be treated like human beings in a world that’s always finding ways to tell them they’re not.”
Moxie Girls Fight Back!!
Check out my review on A Book Wanderer
#popsugarreadingchallenge2021 (prompt #18 - A book on a subject you are passionate about)
This book is a powerhouse in so many ways. I haven't read a book in such a short amount of time before. It was fast paced, relevant, and brought so many things home for me.
Full review https://thecleverreader.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/earc-review-moxie
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