“Fareeda knew that no matter what any woman said, culture could not be escaped. Even if it meant tragedy, even if it meant death…It took more than one woman to do things differently; it took a world of them.” Etaf Rum The quote above is from A Woman is No Man. This book really got […]
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Beyoncé feels like falling in love. Amerie has asked why don’t we fall in love. What about men? I watched Black men showing love on two television shows, Snowfall and The Chi as well as the Creed film series. Black men rarely get the space onscreen to be tender and loving. On each of these
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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! Millennials had a unique upbringing, to say the least. Many of us enjoyed unplugged childhoods, and then we grew up at the same
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Join us for a special episode featuring two thought-provoking segments on representation and advocacy. In the first segment, Alana speaks with Juliana Pache, social media director, jewelry entrepreneur, and creator of Black Crosswords for the Diaspora. Juliana shares the story behind the creation of Black Crosswords, highlighting the importance of representation in overlooked spaces and
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
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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! “Reclaiming the Canon” is a series of posts that aims to bring attention to historical women who are often excluded from the narrative of
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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! “Once upon a time, the planets, and the fatesAnd all the stars alignedYou and I ended up in the same roomAt the same
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In this episode of Feminist Book Club: The Podcast, join Jordy as she sits down to chat with bestselling author Sarah Penner. Together, they explore Sarah’s latest novel, The London Séance Society, and its mesmerizing themes of the Victorian Era, feminism, and all things Séance. Don’t miss out on this interview as we discover Sarah
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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! Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock is not a self help book, even if its name might lead you to believe
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Comeback. The word has been qualified as an empowering term. An opportunity to begin anew. When Lindsay Lohan was announced as starring in a 2022 Netflix holiday film, Falling for Christmas, most of the headlines immediately called this film her “comeback”. Lohan was one of the Hollywood “It” Girls in the early aughts who partied,
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Renee welcomes Anna Bogutskaya to the podcast to chat about her book Unlikeable Female Characters and the nine character archetypes that make a woman unlikeable. You don’t have to be a film nut to enjoy this book and conversation and you’ll be floored by how common these tropes are. Get a copy of Unlikeable Female
Carolyn Bryant Donham died last week at age 88 in Louisiana, where she had been undergoing end-of-life care for cancer. That’s the news peg. For the unaware: In 1955, Donham falsely accused a 14-year-old Emmett Till of grabbing and sexually harassing her in Money, Mississippi. The accusation spelled a death sentence. Donham’s husband and brother-in-law
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