Bodies in Media “How to Look Fab Next to the Ocean!” “Six Pack in Six Hours! Click the link in bio to see how.” “Lizzo Lashes Out At Fans Who Call Her Fat.” These headlines are blatant and eye-catching, eager for you to click in order for them to attain ad dollars. The headlines, glossed …
This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! In Jane Delury’s Hedge, Maud is pruning her life. Parts are misshapen. Some become fresher by the moment. Maud is creating her work …
This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Fireworks Every Night by Beth Raymer is an unabashed look at an unconventional family through the perspective of CC, the youngest daughter. I …
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In You Were Always Mine by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, Cinnamon Haynes, a Black woman, finds an abandoned child whose mother, Daisy, a white woman, has only met Cinnamon a couple of times. Their connection with the child brings a reflection of their fraught lives and threatens who they want to become. My interview …
Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are Tennessee State Representatives. Following yet another school shooting in May 2023, at that time in Nashville, Jones and Pearson, with Representative Gloria Johnson, sought action for gun reform while on the floor of the State House. Rep. Johnson, a white woman, was not expelled. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were. …
The end of the world is imminent in the novel If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come by Jen St. Jude. Avery, a college student, is grappling with wanting to die by suicide as she receives news that an asteroid is set to hit Earth in a matter of days. What would be a time of panic becomes …
Holding Pattern by Jenny Xie marinates on mother/daughter relationships with Marissa and Kathleen. Kathleen signs up to be a professional cuddler (which is a real thing) which opens her world to grief, acceptance, and healing. In my conversation with Jenny Xie, I asked about creating a connection between Marissa and Kathleen, how Jenny’s work as …
Determination. Forgiveness. Love. These themes are pivotal in Hotel Laguna by Nicola Harrison. Hazel, a young woman from Wichita, Kansas, moves to Laguna Beach after losing her job building planes when men returned from World War II. Hazel begins working as a model and assistant for Hanson Radcliff, a renowned artist with a checkered past …
This post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Lucky Girl by Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu centers Soila, a girl seeking independence. She leaves Nairobi for an education at Barnard College. Throughout the story, …
The Audacity of Being Single When I was a child, I was in a few weddings as a flower girl. I was an integral part of a loved one’s special day. I got my hair done. My dress complimented the wedding color palette. My nerves gathered as I prepared to spread the flowers down the …
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