Feminist Book Club is not your average book club.




The Box
When you subscribe to the Feminist Book Club subscription box, not only are you supporting feminist literature, youāre also supporting several small woman- and queer-owned businesses at once. Each box features two or more carefully curated products from businesses we love. Upgrade your packaging to a signature collage box, every dollar benefiting our scholarship program.
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The Community
Each month, we connect via Zoom to discuss the books and invite the authors if they’re available. Subscribers also get the opportunity to connect with other members all over the world through our Slack and Facebook groups. We use these spaces to chat about the books and products all month long but itās also a beautiful and supportive space to process the everyday bullshit we experience.
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Our Books
In true non-hierarchical feminist fashion, members have the opportunity to suggest titles for an upcoming box. We then vote on these suggestions to determine which book will be in the next box. Have you already read the book of the month? You can always swap for another book in our library or skip the month but stay in the discussion group!
FBC media
We’ve assembled the ultimate team of writers and podcasters to bring you the best of the best feminist content. Whether you’re a podcast listener, a blog reader, or a TikTok consumer, Feminist Book Club will help you diversify your bookshelf one episode, post, or video at a time!

Giving Back
We donate a portion of all sales to a different social justice organization each month, with an emphasis on smaller non-profits where our money can make a big impact. Previous beneficiaries include the Trans Women of Color Collective, Native Women’s Wilderness, Soul Fire Farm, Safe BAE, Rights4Girls, and more.

Special thanks to Lunar Startups
Feminist Book Club is proud to be an alumnus of Lunar Startups, a St. Paul-based accelerator dedicated to providing equitable opportunities for entrepreneurs. We join an elite community of founders who are improving the world through entrepreneurship.
we're putting feminist theory into action.

Renee M. Powers (she/her) CEO and Founder
Feminist Book Club is inspired by Reneeās academic background in feminist theory and her penchant for being an early adopter of subscription boxes, podcasts, and online communities. She combined these interests with her love of reading, her passion for toppling the kyriarchy, and the desire to lead a team of people much smarter than her. Now Feminist Book Club is the premier online hub for intersectional readers around the world.
Renee M. Powers is lifelong Midwesterner, an Aries, an ISFJ, a 3 on the enneagram, and a former theatre kid. Honestly, that’s a pretty good overview of what she’s like. She’s been obsessed with feminist theory and feminist literature since her first Women’s Studies class in 2005.
She graduated from Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN) with a degree in Women’s Studies in 2008 at the height of a recession. Young, scrappy, and hungry, she began a career in politics and held positions with a number of members of Congress and a U.S. Senator. Burning out after just a couple years, she went back to school with aspirations to be an academic. Renee earned her M.A. in Communication from Northern Illinois University and spent six years in a Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Entrepreneurship has always gnawed at her so in 2018 she took the leap and bought this URL.
Renee loves memoirs, airports, iced coffee, bold lipstick, and Lady Gaga. When not working on Feminist Book Club, she can be found trying new breweries and coffee shops, cheering on Notre Dame women’s basketball, playing PokĆ©mon Go, or trying and failing to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Or reading. Obviously.
Need a host for your event?
Renee is available to book for your next book tour stop, book launch, or literary event! Sheās skilled at interviewing authors, moderating panels, and emceeing special events.
MEET THE FBC TEAM

Natalia Santana-Pollard (she/her/ella) Word Wizard/Blog Editor-in-Chief
Natalia Santana-Pollard never thought sheād be a writer of anything besides Twitter threads, much less the Editor in Chief of the Feminist Book Club blog, but life has a funny way of making people take the roads they never expected to traveled. In her day-to-day life she contains multitudes; a student of Public Administration and Emergency Management (#GoKnights), a newly minted federal employee, and a gun violence prevention volunteer.Ā
Passionate about the way that education shapes responses people have to a variety of things, Natalia is intensely curious and is always learning more about, well, everything because you never know what might be useful later on. This personality trait manifests itself in being an excellent trivia night partner, and also in trying to find innovative ways to connect disparate ideas and making it work.
A fan of reading and the written word, she reads voraciously and is often found up far too late into the early morning hoursā¦even when she has a paper due and probably should be reading her textbooks. She also spends time with her children playing Mario Kart (Rainbow Road forever), with her husband trying all the food, or with her dog Lyla cuddling on the couch while embroidering anything.Ā

Sarah Hernandez (they/them)Captain of Commerce

Kathleen Gansen (she/her)Customer Happiness Hero
Kathleen Gansen grew up in Minneapolis but has spent time in the Northwest, Appalachia, and most recently, upstate New York. Now back in her hometown, she assists with the day-to-day operations of FBC when she’s not chasing her rambunctious 2 year old, renovating her tiny house, trying to squeeze in a bit of yoga, or meeting with her clients in her role as a board-certified integrative health coach.
Contributors

Ashley Paul
she/her
Californian. When not reading, she’s baking. Would likely split a plate of enchiladas with you. In a different life, she was a lion. Fun fact: Her favorite author is playwright, essayist, novelist, poet, and activist Pearl Cleage.

Christine Bollow
she/her
ChristineĀ is a biracial, bisexual, disabled Filipina American who is a Libra to a T. She is the Programs and Marketing Manager for Loyalty Bookstores and serves on the ABA’s Bookseller Advisory Committee. When not reading or talking about books, Christine is probably snuggling with her 2 chihuahuas, reorganizing her bookshelves, or looking at videos of otters holding hands and baby bats eating fruit. Connect with her on BookstagramĀ @readingismagical!

Claudia Neu
she/her
Minnesotan. Find her hand-lettering her favorite book titles on Instagram. When not watching Criminal Minds or Little Fires Everywhere, she’s napping. In a different life, she was a cat. Because naps. Fun fact: Living in Copenhagen as a child inspired her to be a teacher.

Emma Ito
she/her
Emma is a multiracial, bisexual, Asian American woman who (unsuprisingly!) loves to read. She is a public historian and much of her work focuses on Asian American and Southern history. Emma works full-time with k-12 students, college students, teachers, and lifelong learners, and strongly believes honest history should be available to anyone and everyone.

Mariquita Guerrera
she/her
The family lore around Mariquita is that she started reading at age 2 and hasn’t been without a book since, baffling her family of very occasional readers. Whether historically accurate or not, it is undisputed that she is always in the middle of a minimum of three titles, at least one of which she is just dying to talk about with you. Originally from the Midwest, Mariquita is now contentedly at home in the beautiful Pacific Northwest where one of her major regrets is that she cannot find good Mexican food that reminds her of home. Or maybe she’s just using that as an excuse to buy more cookbooks.

Niba (at)NotesByNiba
she/her
Niba is a queer science content creator based in Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco, CA). She loves reading high fantasy, cultural fashion, fun science, and queer books. In her free time, she pets cats (whether they belong to her or not), weird chip flavors, comics, and adding to my plant collection.Ā www.notesbyniba.com

Nina Garcia
she/her
Texan. Probably listening to Selena or writing in her journal right now (or both). Her perfect day consists of binging Bob’s Burgers and tacos. In a different life, she was a unicorn. Fun fact: She once got in trouble for selling poetry on the playground in the first grade.

Lucy Pabst
she/they
Lucy is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota where she spent the majority of her time buried inside the school of journalism, or talking about how Goldy Gopher is the best mascot to exist.
If you were to ask Lucy about her future, she would tell you all about her plans for reforming education within the National Parks System. Her biggest goal down the line is to create educational programming within the parks to focus more on historical land use and overall accessibility in the outdoors. Since that dream is far off, she currently fantasizes about visiting every National Park.

Steph Auteri
she/her
New Jerseyite. Published author. Yogi. Ukelele player. Currently craving clams oreganata. Has seen Fame too many times. Would like to discuss Derry Girls with you. In a different life, she was a cat. Fun fact: She used to be an on-call funeral singer.

Tayler Simon
she/her
South Carolinian. Allergic to caffeine, so please be patient with her. Big fan of snail mail and would happily write you a letter full of Toni Morrison quotes. Depending on her mood, she’s watching Avatar: The Last Airbender or Lost. Fun fact: She has six tattoos from six different states.

Yasi Agah
she/her
San Franciscan. Becoming by Michelle Obama makes her cry. When not writing, she’s rollerskating and listening to Blink 182. Will happily swap Friends references with you.Ā In a different life, she was a kangaroo. Fun fact: She’s visited 27 countries and counting.
discussion moderators

Anna G.
she/her
Anna Grelson is a born and raised Minnesotan and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and her heaps of beloved books. She is a former theater kid that still firmly believes she could have made it to Broadway on sheer enthusiasm alone. In 2018 she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she specializes in feminist theory, witches, and early/mid 20thĀ century Soviet literature. Fun Fact: she used to teach swim lessons and was a certified Lifeguard Instructor for the American Red Cross.Ā

Ashley P.
she/her
Californian. When not reading, she’s baking. Would likely split a plate of enchiladas with you. In a different life, she was a lion. Fun fact: Her favorite author is playwright, essayist, novelist, poet, and activist Pearl Cleage.

Caryn D.
she/her
Atlantan, lawyer by trade, and a proud (but shy) poet. I have a chubby hound named Ellie and a love for fostering community. If I’m not outside or wishing that I was outside, then I’m probably consuming large amounts of media in any genre. Fun fact: former USA Amateur Boxer.

Casey B.
she/her
Casey is a voracious and eclectic reader of all the things! She reads whatever seems interesting and there is NO SHAME WHATSOEVER in DNFing. Coffee and feminism for life!

Mariah B.
she/her
Mariah is a Boston-born, Orlando-raised, St. Louis-living lover of books, podcasts, being outside, blankets, the natural light in her apartment, hiking, dancing, and ice cream. Her penchant for reading began with novels as a kid (shoutout to Amelia’s Notebooks fans everywhere), but her interests have expanded to include poetry, essay collections, and even the academic works she was assigned during her joint MSW/MBA but now reads for fun. Mariah feels so grateful to get paid to do what she loves: hang out with teenagers, plan storytelling events, and–now–moderate a book club.

Michelle C.
she/her
Books have been my saving grace in 2020! I am a full time hybrid working parent to 5 kids (one with extra needs) and I feel passionately about the power of literacy to make the world a better place.

Myers E.
she/her
Originally from South Carolina, now living and studying in Memphis. PhD student at the University of Memphis where I specialize in representations of witches in contemporary American literature. When not reading for school, you can find me reading for fun or going on walks with my dog and husband.

Nora L.
she/her
Nora is a human who likes other humans and thinks that dogs are humans, too. She is Canadian who can’t seem to stop crashing her mountain bike. Taking international relations personally she lives in the UK half the time and thinks their tea is perfectly paired with her favourite feminist dystopian novels.

Rachel H.
she/her
Rachel is excited to share her love of books and meaningful interaction by being a discussion moderator! When not reading an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction, you can find her playing board games, immersing herself in nature, and planning her next vacation. An avid lover of word puzzles, she still aspires to be a contestant on Wheel of Fortune.

Rachel S.
she/her
Rachel has always been an avid reader and even majored in English Literature during undergrad with the intention of becoming a high school teacher. Somehow, she ended up working in HR at a non-profit and teaching yoga to runners instead, but still loves getting lost in a good book more than anything else. Anytime she’s not working or teaching, you can find her curled up on the couch with a blanket, a book, and her two dogs – or experiencing anxiety about the fact that she will never be able to read ALL the books!

Shoshana F.
she/her