POTUS
ACT presents POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE from September 7 to 29, 2024. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show. Annotations provided by publisher unless otherwise noted.
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POTUS
The script of POTUS, for your reading pleasure.
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Lead From the Outside
"Offers guidance for people who live outside of traditionally powerful social groups to pursue leadership and success by recognizing their own passion and pursuing it with the special perspective, tools, and strengths that come from being on the outside."
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The Good Fight
"In 1972, the Congresswoman from New York--the first Black woman elected to Congress--made history again when she announced her candidacy for President of the United States. Though she understood victory was a longshot, Chisholm chose to run 'because someone had to do it first. . . . I ran because most people think the country is not ready for a black candidate, not ready for a woman candidate.'"
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Political Fictions
"Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics."
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Directed by Desire
"June Jordan’s poetry embraces a half-century in which she dwelt as poet, intellectual, and activist: also as teacher, observer, and recorder. In a sense unusual among twentieth-century poets of the United States, she believed in and lived the urgency of the word—along with action—to resist abuses of power and violations of dignity in—and beyond—her country."--Poetry Foundation
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Ordinary Equality
"We are all living through modern constitutional history in the making, and Ordinary Equality helps teach about the past, present, and future of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) through the lives of bold fearless women."
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Whereas
"Whereas confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. 'I am,' she writes, 'a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation--and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.'"
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Becoming
"In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations."
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
"Morgan Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé is infused with politics and pop culture, personal poetry and political calls to action. Parker challenges the status quo and the mis-marketing of modern feminism, critiquing everything from media and politics, to capitalism and over-consumption, to the systemic racism and sexism throughout American society."--Bustle
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Represent
"In this eminently practical and relentlessly encouraging guide, actress and comedian Raphael and EMILY's List consultant Black lay out a road map for women considering running for office."--Publishers Weekly
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