This post was sponsored by Books Forward and 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! Women’s History Month is the perfect time to learn about badass women of days gone by — […]
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This post was sponsored by Hanover Square Press and 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! I’m a sucker for non-fiction books that correct historical records in a way that is engaging,
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As Renee enters her late 30s, she craves books with older main characters. In this short segment, she shares four books that center the lives and stories of older women. After a short message from our sponsor, Ashley speaks with Nic Stone about her novel, Chaos Theory. The conversation includes how class and power play
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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! Lauren Blackwood returns with her second novel, Wildblood. The story centers around eighteen-year-old Victoria, who is a Wildblood. She has worked as a
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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! The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama had all the makings to become a bestseller just like her previous
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Renee and Mariquita were pitched a book described as “a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver” and knew they had to discuss it. Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns is an unexpected live wire of a novel about a young woman of color driving for a rideshare app and just trying
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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! Nostalgia is a source of comfort. Sometimes looking back can provide an escape from what’s to come or our current predicament. So it
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The classic feminist text Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis was published 40 years ago, yet it remains as relevant as ever. In this episode, Sally & Tayler sit down to talk about its impact on them, and how it might help us get to the liberation we desire and deserve. Books &
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Note: We recommend reading this after you’ve watched the film to avoid possible spoilers. Background Wakanda Forever (2022) just released on Disney+ earlier this month and I was all over it like Ulysses Klaue on vibranium. Reader, I was not disappointed. Given the major changes that happened to the script after the tragic passing of
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I wouldn’t be able to meet my lofty GoodReads goals without listening to audiobooks. Audiobooks are the perfect way to get your #FBCReadathon on and make normal mundane tasks interesting. Here are 47 things to do while listening to audiobooks! There you have it! 47 things. And if you listen to anything by Bahni Turpin,
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Note: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has made this year Black History Month’s theme Black Resistance, which analyzes how Black people have historically rallied against political and societal oppression. Also, this post may include affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. This commission helps
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Renee sits down with Deepti Kapoor to talk about her latest novel, Age of Vice, an epic Indian crime drama that’s getting all the buzz. They discuss what makes it feminist, how to write grimstories without losing your mind, and what’s to come in this corrupt world of vices, including a potential television adaptation. Books
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