Positivity Meter

Perhaps a useful tool for determining if your self-prescribed bibliotherapy is working :) http://www.positivityratio.com/single.php https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/are_you_getting_enough_positivity_in_your_diet Now one interesting fact about all living things is that scientists estimate that, on average, we replace one percent of our cells each day. That’s another one percent tomorrow, about 30 percent by next month, and by next season, 100 percent of our cells from today—that’s one way of looking at it. So maybe it’s no coincidence that it takes three months or so to learn a new habit or to make a lifestyle change; maybe we need to be teaching our new cells because we can’t teach an old cell new tricks. We’ve concluded that a ratio of at least three-to-one—three positive emotions for every negative emotion—serves as a tipping point, which will help determine whether you languish in life, barely holding on, or flourish, living a life ripe with possibility, remarkably resilient to hard times. Ratios of about two-to-one are what most of us experience on a daily basis; people who suffer from depression and other emotional disorders are down near one-to-one or lower. If you make your motto, “Be positive,” that will actually backfire. It leads to a toxic insincerity that’s shown to be corrosive to our own bodies, to our own cardiovascular system. It’s toxic for our relationships with other people.

Feminist Fiction Recommended Titles (in process)

Woman on the Edge of Time Small Changes City of Darkness, City of Light Sex Wars Native Tongue Female Man Golden Notebook Memoirs of a Survivor Briefing for a Descent Into Hell Handmaid's Tale Edible Woman Surfacing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Temple of My Familiar Mists of Avalon Joy Luck Club Woman Warrior Red Tent Orlando Room of One's Own Kindred Parable of the Sower Wide Sargasso Sea Gate to Women's Country Middlemarch Fear of Flying Clan of the Cave Bear Fingersmith Tipping the Velvet Foxfire Girl, Interrupted Delta of Venus Diviners Stone Angel Fire-Dwellers Devil's Arithmetic Diamond Age As We Are Now Bellwether Red Azalea Fight Night

Stone of Patience mythology

https://archive.blogs.harvard.edu/tatar/2018/09/29/silence-stones-of-patience-and-storytelling/

GAGE 1st Wave Feminist

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45580/45580-h/45580-h.htm https://susanbanthonyhouse.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Matilda-Joslyn-Gage-WNLC-1890.pdf

Poem by Jackie Kay "Rubble"

consciousness poems from poemanalysis.com

https://poemanalysis.com/poems-about/mind/

Bartleby as poetry resource

https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/index-to-subjects/