PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe brilliance of Schuller’s work is that she reveals that white feminism isn’t simply a politics, rather it is a mandate of a biopolitics—a wielding of science and government to regulate populations—that extends into the realms of the sciences, economics, and morality that empowers \'woman\' through strengthening and securing \'whiteness\' ... Schuller offers a refreshing contrast to a particular strand of 21st-century white feminism that willfully divorces human responsibility—arguably, to prevent the white male discomfort and anger that would threaten these white feminists’ power and popularity—for these systems ... Considering the examples of antiracist feminists provided in the book, who were ceaseless and tireless in their resistance efforts, and who attempted to leverage capitalist institutions to the best of their ability, Schuller’s critique of self-optimization would be strengthened through further, clearer differentiation from self-determination ... That capitalism is so utterly unavoidable is perhaps why Schuller’s proposed solution to this self-optimization feels both insufficient and unpromising ... in this world run by mediocre white men and their white feminist accomplices, I cannot imagine demanding less of our leaders, or ourselves.
Amy Schumer
PositiveSalonBeyond the many powerful and empowering takeaways of The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo—from loving the hustle to self-love—perhaps the most overlooked is that of a woman’s right to not only make mistakes, but to make art out of them ...What Schumer imparts to the reader is that the greatest power of the storyteller, of the comic, is that of controlling the narrative.
