Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"
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(Re)Introducing the Feminist Book Club podcast team!

We recently welcomed seven new contributors to the Feminist Book Club team and we’d like to (re)introduce you to everyone! With these new voices, we’re also adjusting our content schedule just slightly. On Tuesdays, you’ll hear us dive deep into one or two books through group book discussions and author interviews. On Thursdays, you can …

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Tough Titties: An Ode to Late Bloomers, Child-Free Women, and People Who Suck

This post was sponsored by Hachette Books but all opinions are my own. Partnerships like these help Feminist Book Club pay our contributors, so thanks for supporting small, independent media! Laura Belgray is a wildly successful copywriter with a career that spans magazines, television, blogs, and more. Her essay collection Tough Titties: On Living Your …

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Rah and Renee stand in front of the Welcome sign at the Next Challenge award ceremony
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Big Wins & Big Changes

Remember those emails hounding you to vote for us for The Next Challenge for Media & Journalism? Unfortunately, despite your votes and our best efforts, we didn’t win the Audience Choice Award. But…. WE WON THE VISION AWARD! The Vision Award recognizes one of the nearly 400 media companies that applied for The Next Challenge that has …

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Double Date with America’s Founders + Dr. Poetry on Spoken Word

In our new series, Sally proposes a bookish Double Date by sharing two of her favorite books on a particular topic, starting with America’s founders. Taking a deep dive into the early years of U.S. history may not seem super sexy, but these books are engaging and offer insights your teachers might have missed in …

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