When I took my mom bra shopping, we both agreed we were done with underwires. My mother was 72 years old, aka at the ripe old age of IDGAF. At 42, I… well, I had never given too much of AF, but I hadn’t discovered bralettes and other wireless bras until recently. Previously, whenever my …
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! We stood in the lap lanes of our local pool, bobbing gently, skin pimpling in the cold as we stared expectantly up at …
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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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You may have noticed—in the time I’ve been writing for the Feminist Book Club—that I lean toward certain types of books. Sure, I enjoy memoir. I sometimes read sci-fi. I have a thing for comics and graphic novels. I have an entire shelf’s worth of narrative nonfiction about sex ed. But more than anything else, …
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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! When it comes to family-friendly programming, my fam gravitates toward animated shows with a sense of humor we can all appreciate, whether we’re …
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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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! For much of my life, horror has been the genre I’ve preferred to escape into. The horror I consume allows me to explore …
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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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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