Rebekah Kohlhepp, Author at She Seeks Nonfiction

Nonfiction November is back for 2025!

October 1, 2025October 1, 2025Rebekah Kohlhepp

Few things in life are certain. Our world is unpredictable and chaotic. But as surely as sweater weather rhymes, Nonfiction November alliterates. And in the book blogging sphere, seasonal alliterations almost always mean a reading challenge is here. That’s right: Nonfiction November 2025 is right around the corner! And thanks to never-ending calendrical peculiarities, this year’s event begins earlier than ever. My co-hosts and I will be sharing prompts for you to give your nonfiction TBR some much-deserved attention from October 27 to November 30.

Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad on a background that is half red and half blue

Skeletons in America’s closet: book review of Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad

September 1, 2025September 1, 2025Rebekah Kohlhepp

It must have been the third or fourth rave review of Vijay Prashad’s work that pushed Washington Bullets to the top of my TBR. Specifically, a fellow reviewer had called Washington Bullets a “critical (yet still accessible) intro” to US imperialism. I had already been primed on the topic by works like Inventing Reality and Manufacturing Consent as well as myriad YouTube channels and podcasts, but the story of US imperialism is so winding and chasmic that it seems no amount of sources could cover it all.

Liberating social justice from nonprofits: a review of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

August 17, 2025August 17, 2025Rebekah Kohlhepp

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex caught my eye from the moment I saw it. I’ll admit that I was nervous to see what the essays edited by INCITE! Women of Color would say about the industry I had chosen. What I found were incredibly validating tales and analysis of the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC). Was nonprofit work really a means of achieving liberation? Or does it just keep activists too busy to notice their own exploitation and deradicalization?

Americans United for Separation of Church And State doesn't want you to know about its Zionist hypocrisy | a photo of the Summit for Religious Freedom 2025 program lying torn up in the road

The Zionist hypocrisy that Americans United for Separation of Church and State doesn’t want you to know about

July 28, 2025July 28, 2025Rebekah Kohlhepp

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On April 5, 2025, my boss, Andrew L. Seidel — yes, that Andrew L. Seidel — kicked me out of the Summit for Religious Freedom for wearing my keffiyeh. I had chosen to wear it to show my solidarity with the Palestinian people and their 77 years of resistance against Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide. But my taking this stance at the Summit for Religious Freedom was strictly forbidden, because I was an employee at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, who organized the conference. As Americans United (AU)’s graphic designer, I helped create the Summit for Religious Freedom. It’s only fair, then, that I be the one to tell you that the people who run this conference are far more committed to upholding Zionism, colonialism, and apartheid than they are to fighting for religious freedom.

Queer Palestine’s white savior: a book review of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman

January 26, 2025January 26, 2025Rebekah Kohlhepp

After spending an afternoon last week protesting Donald Trump’s second inauguration in a wind chill of zero degrees Fahrenheit, I find myself thinking back to Pride last summer.

Mind Openers: Nonfiction November 2024, Week 4

November 18, 2024November 17, 2024Rebekah Kohlhepp

I can’t believe I am already hosting my third Nonfiction November! This week, I want to know what books really opened your mind this year. Here’s the prompt!

Nonfiction November 2024 Mind Openers prompt

One of the greatest things about reading nonfiction is the way it can open your eyes to the world around you—no plane ticket required. What nonfiction book or books have impacted the way you see the world in a powerful way? Is there one book that made you rethink everything? Is there a book that, if everyone read it, you think the world would be a better place?

Inventing Reality or Manufacturing Consent: Nonfiction November 2024, Week 3

November 16, 2024November 17, 2024Rebekah Kohlhepp

This week in Nonfiction November, we are pairing books together! Here’s the prompt from Liz:

This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title (or whatever you want to pair up). Maybe it’s a historical novel and the real history in a nonfiction version, or a memoir and a novel, or a fiction book you’ve read and you would like recommendations for background reading. Or (because I’m doing this myself) two books on two different areas have chimed and have a link. You can be as creative as you like! (Liz)

Designing Nonfiction: Nonfiction November 2024, Week 2

November 8, 2024November 8, 2024Rebekah Kohlhepp

Week 2’s prompt for Nonfiction November, Choosing Nonfiction, is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. Our host, Frances of Volatile Rune, asks us:

What are you looking for when you pick up a nonfiction book? Do you have a particular topic you’re attracted to? Do you have a particular writing style that works best? When you look at a nonfiction book, does the title or cover influence you? If so, share a title or cover which you find striking.

What I read in 2024: Nonfiction November 2024, Week 1

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024Rebekah Kohlhepp

I truly cannot believe that it is (almost) November once again! It doesn’t feel real that Nonfiction November 2024 has already come around, but I’ll never pass up an opportunity to tell you about my favorite books.

A protester at the DNC wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh and holding a sign that says Abandon Harris '24.

Why I will vote third party in the 2024 election

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024Rebekah Kohlhepp

My views are my own.

I am voting third party in the 2024 presidential election. I have as little faith in the Democratic Party as I do in the Republican Party: none.

I am a pro-Palestine socialist. I am against genocide, capitalism, American imperialism, and Israeli apartheid.

A vote for Kamala Harris, like a vote for Donald Trump, is a vote for genocide, capitalism, American imperialism, and Israeli apartheid.