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Reimagining Family

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! Mother’s Day comes with lots of talk and thought about mothers and motherhood — its joys and its sacrifices. It also comes, increasingly […]

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How Our Performance of Beauty and Womanhood Is a Lifelong Trap - closeup on the hands of a Black, feminine-presenting person applying lipstick, with a makeup palette in the background
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How Our Performance of Beauty and Womanhood Is a Lifelong Trap

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! My mom and I faced each other in the upstairs bathroom—me sitting on the closed lid of the toilet, her standing before me—at

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Emmett Till, murdered by Carolyn Bryant Donham
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A Post In Which We Mourn Emmett Till and Definitely Not Carolyn Bryant Donham

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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Why the WGA Writers Strike is a Feminist Issue

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Conservatives Are Back on Their Bullshit with ‘Parental Rights’

I’ve been writing about sex ed for nearly a decade now. It began when I landed a gig with AASECT, the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. While with that organization—my child just an infant—I learned a lot about the state of sex ed in the United States, and about the role it

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Women, Power, & Rape Culture (and Intersectionality)

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! Women, Power, & Rape Culture: The Politics and Policy of Underrepresentation is a very academic read, but it’s perfect for the work I

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