Interviews and Book Reviews

“How to Raise a Feminist Son”

Crosscut Now on PBS features How to Raise a Feminist Son in the “New Northwest memoirs for Spring reading.”

BBC World News interviews Sonora Jha about her insights on citizen journalism and witness Darnella Frazier’s Pulitzer citation in the George Floyd incident.

The New Indian Express interviews Sonora Jha about the process of writing her new book How to Raise a Feminist Son.

Karolina Klinkova of Denik interviews Sonora Jha about her book How to Raise a Feminist Son.

Nina Avila-Garcia of the Feminist Book Club reviews How to Raise a Feminist Son and interviews Sonora Jha - “Part memoir, part manifesto, How to Raise a Feminist Son is a confluence of the author’s life, her rich inner life, family life, and feminism. Jha deftly marries theory and practice in between stories and experiences that will knock the breath out of you.”

Zehra Naqvi of The Wire reviews Sonora Jha’s How to Raise a Feminist Son: A Memoir and Manifesto - “The most significant feminist lesson in this book, then, hides between the lines: the idea of vulnerability, openness and gentleness as strength.”

Namrata Poddar of the Kweli Journal interviews Sonora Jha about race, power, and storytelling in her new book How to Raise a Feminist Son.

The Non-Fiction Book Club of India reviews Sonora Jha’s How to Raise a Feminist Son: A Memoir and Manifesto - “In today’s society, feminism needs more foot soldiers and the ideal way for that to be achieved is to grow a generation of them. ‘How to Raise A Feminist Son’ chronicles a mother’s quest for that.”

Jennifer Haupt of Psychology Today interviews Sonora Jha about How to Raise a Feminist Son - “It's part personal essay, part journalistic inquiry, and part parenting lessons.”

Sarah Stuteville of the South Seattle Emerald publishes an op-ed and a review of How to Raise a Feminist Son - “Jha’s comment about living values highlighted for me the toxic intersection of feminine pleasing and white fragility that can activate when I’m faced with complexity — like parenting with intersectional feminist values.”

Women’s Web interviews Sonora Jha about her new book - “a love letter to parents everywhere, with questions that hit home, such as, “If sexism is a male invention, why is fixing it women’s work?”

Meenakshi Shedde of the Mid-Day reviews How to Raise a Feminist Son: A Memoir and Manifesto - “a rich, vital trove of reflection, experience and DIY tools, on how we can bring up our sons—and daughters—for a gender-just society.”

KUOW interviews Sonora Jha about How to Raise a Feminist Son - “Raising boys the non-toxic way: a how-to manual.”

The Spectator interviews Sonora Jha about her new book - what feminism means to her and why is it important to raise feminist sons today.

The Rumpus interviews Sonora Jha about her newly released book How to Raise a Feminist Son - “[S]he has created a feminist manifesto steeped in personal story that seeks to unwind and re-weave the way we make men.”

eShe interviews Sonora Jha about How to Raise a Feminist Son - “Raising Boys to Be Feminists is an Act of Love and Compassion Towards Them.”

Rachel Martin of NPR Morning Edition interviews Sonora Jha about her new book How to Raise a Feminist Son and what feminism means for boys.

Seattle’s Child interviews Sonora Jha about her newly released book How to Raise a Feminist Son.

Shelf Awareness both interviews Sonora Jha and reviews How to Raise a Feminist Son - “a stunningly candid account of the struggles, victories and life lessons accumulated by the author as she nurtured in her Indian American child, Gibran, a feminist consciousness.”

Nalini Iyer of the International Examiner reviews How to Raise a Feminist Son - a memoir and feminist manifesto that “compels the reader to reflect on parenting, social perceptions of gender, and to take on the hard task of raising feminist men.”

Seattle Met features Sonora Jha’s book How to Raise a Feminist Son among top three books to read this spring. Read more here.

Sasquatch Books interviews Sonora Jha about her upcoming book How to Raise a Feminist Son - “her motivation for writing, thoughts on feminism, advice for parents raising boys (and girls!), what gives her hope for the future, and more.”

The Chicago Review of Books calls attention to Sonora Jha’s upcoming virtual workshop Prepping to Publish “where she’ll walk students through creating query letters and developing a list of potential homes for their writing.” Read more here.

Quartz published a recent essay by Sonora Jha that went viral, on how we enabled the rapists of an 8-year-old girl in India.

The Seattle Review of Books calls Sonora Jha's work in progress "one of the more anticipated books by a Seattle author." Read the story here.

KUOW (Seattle's NPR station) interviews Sonora Jha on #MeToo and speaking to boys about sexual consent.

The Seattle Times features Sonora Jha in an in-depth magazine feature on Seattle women, #MeToo, and cultural risks.

The Seattle Times interviews Sonora Jha in-studio a Facebook Live event.

Real Change newspaper interviews Sonora on stepping in as Hugo House Writer in Residence

Sonora Jha's Guest Op-Ed in The New York Times, April 24, 2014.

Paul Constant of The Stranger reviews Foreign - "A literary-journalistic Odyssey"

An interview in New Asian Writing, June 2014