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It has been many years since I was the target audience for this type of story, but I found myself relating to Charlie Vega in a lot of ways. As a Latina with a body that has never (and will never) fit society’s traditional beauty standards, I truly wish that I had this book growing […]

In collaboration with Kaymara at Decentered Lit, Feminist Book Club read the book Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn as our pick for March’s Read Caribbean theme. Here Comes the Sun is Dennis-Benn’s debut novel about different Jamaican women who reside in River Bank and how each of their lives are impacted by the

In this double c (and I’m not talking about Chanel) world that is pressed upon us by vile, incompetent, and greedy simpletons, what is holding someone ACCOUNTABLE for their actions has been deemed a firebrand. The double c’s are actually a bad entanglement with alliteration.  We live in a real world where people and their

This past February, Juwan J. Holmes of LGBTQ Nation reported that Georgia was considering a piece of anti-trans legislation that would ban transgender girls from participating in school sports. This bill — House Bill 372 — would redefine gender as “a person’s biological sex at birth,” require state-funded schools and associations to ban student-athletes from

When I spoke to Rachel Fey, the senior director of public policy at Power to Decide, about the new administration the other month, she was giddy. “We’ve spent the last four years playing defense… playing whack-a-mole,” she said. “Trying to protect what we have. But what we know is that’s really not good enough.” She

For those of you who have seen the HBO series, “Girls” you knew this was coming. If you haven’t, watch it! Well…maybe read this post before you dive in.   A few weeks ago I was reading Roxane Gay’s, Bad Feminist, a collection of short stories. One of the short stories discussed the show “Girls” and

Dear YA books, Adults should read YA books. I used to think I graduated from needing you in my life, thinking I was too cool. I was trying to be more adult than I really was. High school problems? I scoffed at them, thinking they would be trivial compared to the real adult books I

The Echo Wife is a sci-fi thriller that follows Evelyn Caldwell, who is a scientist with unflinching resolve when it comes to her research and her relationships. She makes an incredible leap in scientific research just as her marriage is falling apart. As much as she wants to keep her head down and push forward,

March may have been Black History Month but we at FBC think that we should read books by Black authors all year-round. With everything that is going on, sometimes I find it difficult to read an average 300-page novel. When that happens, I often read graphic novels. They are often around 150 pages, easy to