By Maya Frai, Managing Editor

This past summer, I met someone who told me that one of the books that truly opened her eyes was Naomi Alderman’s The Power. Although the book is speculative fiction in its exaggeration of a woman’s physical power, Alderman provides a commentary on the inherent power of women and when unleashed, women become unstoppable. It resets our current landscape depicting an alternate reality while still trying to expose provocative truths of today’s society.

It made me think about the power imbalance that so often divides our society. Power is interpreted in an economic, political, and social sense and has typically put women at a disadvantage. But who’s to say how much power women should or should not have? …