Steph Auteri is a journalist who has written for the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, VICE, and elsewhere. Her more literary work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Creative Nonfiction, Southwest Review, and other publications. Her reported memoir, A DIRTY WORD, came out in 2018. She is the founder of GuerrillaSexEd.org. Favorite Genres: horror, comics, horror comics, and narrative journalism.
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The Give and Take of Motherhood: An Interview with Heidi Reimer of The Mother Act

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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! I’m the mother of a 9-year-old. I love her to bits. We are thisclose. She is my everything. Except maybe not… everything? Because […]

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Micro Activism and How to Hone Your Activist Identity

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For nearly a decade now, the majority of my activism efforts have focused on access to inclusive and comprehensive sexuality education. I’ve volunteered for sex ed organizations. I’ve donated money to them. I’ve engaged in craftivism around the topic. My journalism and copywriting work has focused on sex ed advocacy. I’ve even created a by-god

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The Importance of Creative Work During These Dystopian Times

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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 early 2019, before COVID-19 consumed the world, I wrote the beginning of a horror story while on a writing retreat in the

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How Our Performance of Beauty and Womanhood Is a Lifelong Trap

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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! My mom and I faced each other in the upstairs bathroom—me sitting on the closed lid of the toilet, her standing before me—at

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Free Comic Book Day Is Upon Us—These Are the Titles I’m Most Excited About

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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! If there’s any day I approach with the same level of pee-your-pants excitement and anticipation as Christmas, it’s Free Comic Book Day (FCBD).

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Conservatives Are Back on Their Bullshit with ‘Parental Rights’

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I’ve been writing about sex ed for nearly a decade now. It began when I landed a gig with AASECT, the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. While with that organization—my child just an infant—I learned a lot about the state of sex ed in the United States, and about the role it

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How Horror Can Heal Us: An Interview with Betsy Nicchetta

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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! Recently, we here at FBC HQ learned that Betsy Nicchetta, one of our fabulous Feminist Book Club members, had contributed an essay to

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