With Emma and Forrest In this segment, Emma has a conversation with Forrest, your @favoritelibrarian ! Forrest and Emma talk about the beauty of libraries and archives and give some of their favorite book recommendations (with book to movie adaptations and anime recs sprinkled in!). Follow and support our hosts: Emma: Instagram Forrest: Instagram Forrest’s […]
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I left my heart in san francisco. While there are a lot of cities that are involved in the history of LGBTQ+ folks, there is one city that stood out during the sexual liberation of queer people. Imagine a red bridge, cable cars, and loooots of hills – you guessed it: San Francisco! When
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Land of Big Numbers is a collection of short stories written by Te-Ping Chen who is a journalist with the Wall Street Journal. Drawing on her experience of living in China, Chen creates a portrait of how everyday life in China looks like as well as its diaspora. The stories also show the social, political,
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Ready for a fun new rom-com? Niba offers up So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park and shares an interview with the author herself. We hope you’re hungry. Follow and support our host! Niba: Instagram // Twitter // YouTube // Website Follow and support our guest! Suzanne: Instagram // Twitter // Website Also mentioned: Podcast
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As back-to-school season inches closer and closer (or in some states is already here *insert sob here*), teachers this year are preparing a little differently, particularly in states like Texas where a bill (HB 3979) denouncing critical race theory was recently signed into law. For a party that is hell-bent on limited government and self-autonomy,
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It’s almost August 1st. All the rainbow flags have been removed from companies’ logos; the national retail stores have discontinued their Pride merchandise; the local coffee shop has removed its “5% of all sales support LGBTQ+ communities!” promotion. Although many organizations supported queer communities during the month of June, we need to hold people accountable
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With Phalin and Emma Phalin gives a little history on National Support Black Businesses Month and offers actionable ways to drive diversity, inclusion, and equity to Black Owned Businesses during the month of August. Then Emma dives deeply into the book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and talks about the
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I am finally recuperated from a whirlwind weekend. As readers of this blog already know, last weekend was our #FBCReadathon and I thought it would be brilliant to host a grand opening event at the same time. It was… a lot. But so worthwhile. The Readathon Last year’s readathon was an epic weekend where I
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With Natalia, Emma, and Renee Science fiction and fantasy don’t get the respect they deserve and Natalia has a lot of feelings about it. At the end of the segment, we hope you’ll be more inclined to pick up the next science fiction or fantasy book you stumble across. Then Renee unboxes everything in the
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The weekend of July 17 and 18, Feminist Book Club had the incredible opportunity to celebrate the queer community at Twin Cities Pride. This year marks the first time that Feminist Book Club has had a booth at the festival and over 170,000 people were estimated to be in attendance at Loring Park in Minneapolis.
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As glorious as a good readathon can be, there are also so many reasons not to do one. Weekend plans. Spring cleaning. Your next Netflix marathon. Gardening. Every minute in the day — every hour that goes by — something pops up to bump reading to the bottom of your list of priorities. Now, when
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Are you the type to slog through a book because you feel like you have to, even if that book isn’t giving you anything you want? Or are you team DNF? DNF, or translated from book nerd lingo, Did Not Finish. Our choice to put a book down says a lot about our choices as
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