In the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host from the ‘Throwing Shade’ podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary ideal for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay.

Since women earned the proper to vote just a little under a hundred years ago, our progress was not the Olympic sprint toward gender equality 1st wave feminists hoped for, but more of a slow, elderly mall walk (with regular stops to Cinnabon) within the 500 million about Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Loss of life hurdles we still encounter. Some of these hurdles are obvious-unequal pay, under-representation in federal government, reproductive restrictions, lack of floor-length mirrors in resort rooms. But a whole lot of them are harder to recognize. They’re the white sound of oppression that we’ve approved as lady business as normal, as well as the patriarchy really wants to maintain it that method.

Erin Gibson has a singular goal-to produce a utopian future where women are named humans. In FEMINASTY-titled after her nickname within the strike podcast ‘Throwing Shade’-she offers written a assortment of make-you-laugh-until-you-cry essays that expose the hidden rules that produce life as a female unnecessarily hard and deconstructs them in a way that’s strong, provocative and amusing.

Whether it’s shaming women for having their periods, allowing them into STEM areas but by no means treating them like they truly belong, or dictating rigorous rules for how they should dress in every situation, Erin breaks down the organized chaos of old-fashioned sexism, intentional and otherwise, that systemically keeps women down.