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Five Reasons You Should Join our Monthly Feminist Book Club Video Chats

Feminist Book Club is a unique community of readers who are dedicated to social justice through collective learning and conversations. I have been fortunate enough to be a member of Feminist Book Club since the spring of 2019. Throughout my time with Feminist Book Club, I have been able to celebrate its first birthday, watch

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Children’s Book Recommendations to Fill Your Classroom and Home Library

As fall quickly approaches, teachers and parents are preparing for many different learning models, some with students attending school in person and others with full time distance learning from home. No matter how students are learning this fall, all children should have access to quality literature that is both representative of themselves, as well as,

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6 Books to Broaden Your Horizons Instead of Playing Animal Crossing

There are lots of things confusing about our current existence, like why is everyone playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons? I’ve spent most of quarantine avoiding playing Animal Crossing, and instead searching for new reads that will broaden my horizons. (See what I did there?). The resistance to play the game isn’t because I don’t like

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How Contemporary True Crime Books Are Exposing Societal Inequities

I didn’t start reading true crime until recently. Most of the books I flipped through over the years seemed overly lurid and salacious, lingering on the upsetting details of horrific acts that had been committed against female victims who nonetheless seemed blurry and vague, placed there as they were in order to illuminate the inner

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Excavation & My Dark Vanessa: Empty Promises from the Publishing Industry

  I want to begin this blog by recognizing that there are many different articles written about this same topic, specifically the article written by the author herself, Wendy C. Ortiz. My purpose in writing this post is to write from my perspective as an avid reader and a consumer of books who is influenced

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