Reddit mentions: The best teen & young adult women biographies

I am cutting and pasting from a HelloGiggles interview i did because this is not a short list:

EG: I love Gail Collins. She’s a New York Times journalist. She wrote a book called America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. It’s the feminist history book you never had. It’s a book you cannot put down. It’s so jam packed with information, and you just can’t believe you don’t know this stuff. She has a whole thing about how pioneer women basically built San Francisco. Because when the gold rush happened, there was no one to cook for the men. So women would come out, set up shop, and make tons of money. They were business owners and had autonomy and control of their finances for the first time. Stuff like that. I mean, Bear Grylls would look like Tom Brokaw compared to these pioneer women. That’s not even a good analogy. But these women would like, crawl up mountains while giving birth. Their skirts would catch on fire all the time. The shit that they went through was insane. So you’re reading this, and [Collins is] just giving you all of it. It’s the most fascinating book I’ve ever read.

Of course, all of Roxane Gay’s books. She’s necessary reading. I just read In Her Words, the Eleanor Roosevelt book. That was uplifting, and also so sad to see this woman with this knowledge and access to power whom, if she had been given the chance…god, the things she could have done. You should read Susan Faludi’s Backlash. That’s super necessary feminist reading. I also like this book called White Trash. It’s about America’s history of poverty and how it explains a lot of what’s happening today. But because it’s written by a woman — it’s written by Nancy Isenberg — it has a feminist slant to it. It’s fantastic.

Oh, and Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Bagieu. It’s a graphic novel of incredible women. It’s gorgeous and informative and great. And it’s a great book for a teen, or an adult who likes graphic novels like me. Also Bitch Planet. It’s a graphic novel that’s The Handmaid’s Tale of space. That’s great. And of course, The Handmaid’s Tale. Read Margaret Atwood. And not just The Handmaid’s Tale. She’s written tons of other books that are thematically similar and just as depressing.

Also, Samantha Irby. Her books…I don’t know what to say about her books. I have a really loud laugh, and when something tickles me and gets me really hard, I laugh really loudly. And I do it like, every other page with her.

not an american, no dare where i'm from, but in biology class we had to give presentations about a drug we could choose. i talked about weed. lsd was from a pretty intelligent friend of mine and it really hooked me up. since then i always wanted to try it. when i finally did in my psychedelics phase it was wonderful (but psychedelics fucked me up some times and it's fucking hard to handle bad trips. shrooms, acid and others can be wonderful but be warned, that stuff is powerful, don't take it lightly, read about it a lot before trying, plan it, make sure set and setting is great and be prepared for a life changing experience.) happy tripping following the white rabbit where ever it leads you :)

christiane f. is a famous real life story of a 13 y/o girl in the 70s. she describes very very raw how she fell into hole of getting h addicted, prostituting herself, loosing her younger sister to heroin and how it fucked her up completely (she still lives and still stuggles but is better, the money from the book - a bestseller - she lost to the drugs though and is poor again). it's a hard read resp. watch as there is a film version with david bowie of it.

this book is often read in school in germany for drug prevention. but i heard pretty often that people got interested and curious in heroin exactly because they read that book in school. there is something about failed drug prevention that most teachers seem to do wrong. sometimes more obvious sometimes less.

>Help Luna rid the world of menstruation haters! Throw tampons at them and don’t let them confiscate yours!

If you're throwing your tampons at them, what reason do they have to confiscate them? You've literally given them away.

>As featured in CBS.com, Time.com, Today.com, TeenVogue.com, Jezebel.com, NYDailyNews.com, Feministing.com, Fast Company Co.exist, among others.

How often do most of these MSM write articles about video games? It is remarkable how much coverage this little game garnered, and all of it very favourable for reasons beyond the realm of gaming, game play, design, etc. The value of this free advertising must've been worth tens of thousands of dollars; it even got them a book deal and a TEDx talk. It's like they all have a hive mind.

“I don’t think a guy would have made ‘Tampon Run'”. There was a game called Tampon Toss released two years before this one; a simple google search figured this out. No coverage at all. Programmer is a bloke.

[Tomboy: A Memoir] (http://www.amazon.com/Tomboy-Graphic-Memoir-Liz-Prince/dp/1936976552) by Liz Prince is an excellent read. Not sure I can share any specific stories, but definitely was (and often still am) non-gender conforming.

It's definitely true, there has since been a book published, which Gaby Rodriguez wrote herself. They also adapted her story into a Lifetime movie.

Are you referencing the paperback they published? (https://www.amazon.com/Seventeen-Real-Girls-Real-Life-Stories/dp/1588166481/ref=nodl_)

That was released in June of 2007. Was there another article the magazine ran in ‘04?

Zoo Station: The Story of Christian F

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https://www.amazon.com/Zoo-Station-Story-Christiane-Stories/dp/1936976226

There's still some doubt:

• Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River
  
• Did Lizzie Borden Axe for It?
  
• The Lizzy Borden Trial (Be the Judge/Be the Jury)

No, they are just quite strict - bordering on abusive.

There is even a sub about these places. r/troubledteens

There are also other books on Amazon about them, I just started this one about a series of camps back in the 80s called "Straight, Inc".

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Inside-True-Story/dp/1492635731/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8