We all remember when Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Old Town Road” hit the charts and consistently held the #1 spot. Not only did it become one of the most streamed songs, this year it became the highest certified song ever by the Recording Industry of Association of America, reaching 14-times platinum status […]
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Renee and Mariquita discuss their annoyance at all the white guys in publishing, but also begrudgingly love on their books. What begins as this discussion turns into a celebration of Native American/Indigenous literature by the end, as all good episodes should. This episode was sponsored by Get Bullish! Use the offer code bookclub10 for 10% off
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At Feminist Book Club, we thrive on sharing wonderful companies that give purpose with each purchase. At GetBullish, Jen Dziura evolved the company from an advice column to an annual conference and a collection of feminist-focused gifts. In our September book box, a tumbler was featured with a powerful message that is from GetBullish. Jen
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Some Background There are many ways to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month which runs from September 15 to October 15, including supporting Latinx owned businesses and learning about various Latinx people who have made history. With this in mind, it is also crucial to learn about the Latinx innovators and creators of the present, those who
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I was absolutely blown away by the thrilling mother-turned-spy novel, A Woman of Intelligence. I got to sit down with the author, Karin Tanabe, and hear her takes on motherhood, feminism, her writing process and journey creating this novel. Check out the interview below and read my full book review about A Woman of Intelligence
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Mariquita cannot wait to tell you about Win Me Something, the debut novel by Kyle Lucia Wu. Win Me Something tells the story of Willa Chen, a twenty-something biracial woman living in New York City. Willa takes on a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family and explores her own connection to family,
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CW: Sexual assault questioning, eating disorder Synopsis: In Gervais Hagerty’s debut novel, In Polite Company, Simons Smythe is a young woman working as a news producer. She was born and bred in Charleston, South Carolina to a sophisticatedly societal family. Her engagement to Trip makes her question many of the life choices pressured particularly by
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Happy October! If you enjoy getting into the spooky season mood, you may still be working on that special TBR or watch list for this month. Here is a list of scary books and movies that pair well to bulk up your plans. If you’ve seen or read any of these, the similar recommendation is
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just femme & dandy is a biannual literary & arts magazine for and by the LGBTQIA+ community on fashion that privileges underrepresented and marginalized writers and artists. They accept the following for submissions: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, illustration, drag, dance, video, film, photography, tutorials, interviews, reviews, listicles, think pieces, commentaries, historical investigations, and others. Being an anti-racist,
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Niba sits down for an author interview with Heidi Stemple, to discuss her newly released picture book, Adrift. Adrift is a timely and relevant picture book about the power of community and a gentle metaphor for the global pandemic. Adrift is a way to start conversations with young readers about fear, hope and being together
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The world is currently a dumpster fire. There is no doubt about that. It’s not surprising that most of the #bookstagrams I saw pop up were created at the start of the pandemic: people were turning to books to escape the nightmare that was (still is) real life. And with delicious dark irony, reading a
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Summary Motherhood is complicated. It becomes even more complicated when you are an undercover spy trying to infiltrate the KGB during the 1950s. Karin Tanabe’s A Woman of Intelligence is the thrilling story of Katharina Edgeworth, a previously career-focused, party-girl who took to the streets of Manhattan who has now taken to the country’s most
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