Seattle Latinx Bookclub - Through the Eyes of Rebel Women

This month we'll be discussing the non-fiction work Through the Eyes of Rebel Women, which looks at the experiences of women members of the The Young Lords Organization. As always, our number one priority is creating comunidad. So please feel free to attend even if you didn't get a chance to finish the book this month.

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Where to find the book

You can find a copy of their book on Bookshop.org here

Purchase through Estelita's Library's Bookshop.org storefront, and you'll support Seattle's local Black/Brown-owned justice-focused community bookstore & lending library.

In anticipation of this being a book club selection, a catalog request was made last November at the Seattle Public Library. As of 1/1/25, the Seattle Public Library approved the request and has just received two copies that can be found here.

About the Book

THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first book about the experiences of the women members — a "story within a story" told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in New York in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women in the Young Lords organized to build a people's movement and fought the “revolution within the revolution” believing that women’s equality was inseparable from the society’s progress as a whole.

Written and edited by Iris Morales, THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN consists of essays, interviews, and primary source documents. Morales chronicles the revolutionary rise of the Young Lords, the contributions of women, and the group’s decline.

Personal interviews with former women members conducted for the film ¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords have been edited for the book. Photographs and articles written from 1969 through 1973 complete the volume. The entire narrative affirms that social movements do not develop in a vacuum but arise to spearhead solutions to the injustices occurring in society.

About the Author

Iris Morales is a New York-based Latina activist. She is best known for her work with the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican community activist group in the United States.

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