Books Further reading Reni Eddo-Lodge recommends books to change the conversation The journalist and author suggests books to challenge your thinking on work, food, beauty and sex Reni Eddo-Lodge: ‘Women are expected to be both attractive and modest about it.’ Photograph: Rebecca MarshallIn the media bunfight about the legitimacy of trans people’s lives, Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness is a must read. For a long time, my support stopped at “trans women are women”. Otegha Uwagba’s Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women is the book I needed when I began writing for a living four years ago. Work, food, gender presentation and beauty habits have been tools to control our behaviour for centuries. • Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race will be published by Bloomsbury in paperback on 8 March.

Source: The Guardian February 10, 2018 09:56 UTC