- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Roaring Brook Press (September 19, 2017)
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!
Okay, I will say that I loved the message behind this book and I loved that Vivian had her own missteps in finding her feminist side, however she did have moments of being incredibly annoying. There was just something about her treatment of Seth that kind of irked me. She just seemed to run hot and cold on him depending on whether his reaction to things suited her. There was also the slight issue of race and your fellow woman, that only got a brief mention and I feel that should have been expanded on.
So while that left me a bit disconnected and bothered, the rest of this story got me in such a fight back mood. These girls taking charge and shutting down the assholes running the school made me smile. I wish MOXIE was a real zine.
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