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This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Rachel Martin.

When Sonora Jough gave birth to a boy, she was certain of one thing.

She wanted to raise him as a feminist. She was living in India at the time, working as a journalist.

She moved to Singapore and eventually Seattle. There was a divorce along the way, and Jaw found herself a single mom.

She's got a new book out about that experience. It's a memoir, but it also

has practical to-do lists about how to tackle some of the hardest conversations with her son.

It's also a love letter, not just to moms, but to the next generation of men. This conversation

first ran on Empire's Morning Edition. I asked Sonor Jha what it means to have a feminist son.

It means having a boy who believes in the full humanity of women and girls around him,

who knows how to trust his mother's voice, her anger, her love, and then extend that to other

women around him. And also, feminism for boys in particular

is about, you know, things like feeling their whole spectrum of human emotion, right? Feeling sad,

being able to cry, being able to have that feminine side. And then also as they grow to recognize that they can be led

by women, that they believe women's stories. Do you believe that you are at the center of everything

or that you can sometimes follow and pass the mic or let them lead the way or get out of their way?

Race is intrinsic in all of this, right?

It just has to be part of our conversations about parenting,

and your experience in particular, raising a brown boy in America.

But this is not just for families of color.

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