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“I dug deep into some of the indignities, concerns, anxieties, and pressures that come with being a woman in the world and I think those aren’t always taken seriously in literature.” – Andrea Bartz   Andrea Bartz is a journalist and essayist, as well as the author of The Lost Night, which was named a […]

“Sometimes I think about how dudes don’t give a fuck and I’m like, how can I not give a fuck?” – Sarah Cooper   Sarah Cooper is a comedian, speaker, and author of bestselling books How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings and 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. She did not mean

“I think this is a lot of the work of feminism. Women are constantly leading the charge on bringing stories to the forefront that aren’t even their own.” – Traci Thomas Traci Thomas is the host of The Stacks podcast, a podcast about books and the people who read them. Each week, Traci interviews a diverse

“I love this place, I love this story, I feel excited and drawn to these characters even through many, many years of working on them.” – Julia Phillips   Julia Phillips is the author of the novel Disappearing Earth, which is out now from Knopf in the US and Scribner in the UK and being

“When we include women’s stories, then we get the whole picture of history.” – Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi   Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD is the author of “This is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines” and “Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence

“From the way we sing to how we do our hair, let’s pass the torch and allow ourselves to catch on fire.” – Nastashia Minto Nastashia Minto is an African American woman who was born in South Georgia and raised there by her grandparents. She grew up in poverty and around drugs, alcohol, and family

In this episode, Feminist Book Club intern Maraya King is back with her final review. Today she’s chatting about the book The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor. Get the book: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor from Barrett-Koehler Publishers (2018) Follow Maraya on

“Part of taking care of ourselves is to trust and be trusted that we have each other’s best interests in mind.” – Julie Burton   Julie Burton has spent the past two decades working as a fitness instructor, freelance writer, author, self-care expert, and teacher while mothering her four children alongside her husband of 25 years.

“We hit on this nerve that it would be erotic for women to just be treated in a safe, human way.” – Brooke Preston Caitlin Kunkel, Brooke Preston, Fiona Taylor, and Carrie Wittmer are comedy writers and satirists whose work has been featured in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and many other outlets. Together, they cofounded

“The decision to come here and to try to make a life here isn’t an easy one and certainly isn’t one that people make lightly.” – Melissa Rivero Melissa Rivero is the author of The Affairs of the Falcóns, recently published this month from Ecco/HarperCollins. It has been named an anticipated book of 2019 by

“There’s been a cost personally to speaking up, as there is with anything that’s uncomfortable and goes against what you’ve been raised to do.” – Etaf Rum   Etaf Rum was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, by Palestinian immigrants. She teaches college English literature in North Carolina, where she lives with her two

  In this episode, Feminist Book Club intern Maraya King is back with another review. Today she’s chatting about the edited anthology Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies: Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them. Get the book: Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies: Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to