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Book review: Goddesses takes sacrificial knife to toxic feminism

Nina Millns’ debut novel makes fun of self-serving white feminism while highlighting its more dangerous consequences

Author Nina Millns: parts of her novel are dramatic, amusing and on occasion frightening, but the book as a whole has a pacing issue

White feminism has been due a good skewering, and it comes in the form of this debut novel from Nina Millns. Goddesses is split into two parts, exploring the particular issues faced by women of colour and working-class women in feminist spaces.

Ayesha and her good friend Yaz are working on the London comedy circuit around the time of the #MeToo movement. Usually they’re the only female or person of colour on the line-up, and ...