Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption offers a radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights. For too long, upper-middle-class white women have been heralded as the 'experts' on feminism, presiding over multinational feminist organizations and writing much of the feminist canon.

Rafia Zakaria, an American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, champions a reconstruction of feminism in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto. She centers women of color in the dialogue, challenging the global, long-standing affinity of white feminism with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals.

Zakaria covers topics like the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and the condescension of the white feminist-led 'aid industrial complex.' She critiques the conflation of sexual liberation as the 'sum total of empowerment,' following in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears like Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde.

In this staggering, radical critique, Zakaria refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment, placing Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront.

Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region by J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. This collection of essays allows Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography.

The book moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to provide a deeply personal portrait of Appalachia—a place that is culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. It complicates simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, making clear Appalachia’s intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities.