For nearly a decade now, the majority of my activism efforts have focused on access to inclusive and comprehensive sexuality education. I’ve volunteered for sex ed organizations. I’ve donated money to them. I’ve engaged in craftivism around the topic. My journalism and copywriting work has focused on sex ed advocacy. I’ve even created a by-god […]
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This post was sponsored by Storey Press. All opinions are my own. Our sponsors help us to pay our staff and to keep feminist media independent! My schedule has gotten exceptionally full lately and I know I’m not alone in this. Once summer is over, it feels like we’re all in a sprint towards the
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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! Feminist psychology is a progressive field that explores the intricate web of gender dynamics, sex and sexualities. The field has had a profound
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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! Today, we are diving into a queer community that often gets overlooked – bisexuals. As someone who discovered their bisexuality in the last
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! Karen Horney was a founding mother of Feminist Psychology, voiced her differing opinions on Freud, and lived a dynamic life. Here’s her life,
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Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are Tennessee State Representatives. Following yet another school shooting in May 2023, at that time in Nashville, Jones and Pearson, with Representative Gloria Johnson, sought action for gun reform while on the floor of the State House. Rep. Johnson, a white woman, was not expelled. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were.
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Over the last couple of years, I have inadvertently developed a weird personal vendetta against Jenna Bush Hager’s Read with Jenna Book Club. It all started when she put her little sticker on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. The late, great Toni Morrison didn’t need her seal of approval on her book cover. Anyone who
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Quick Backstory When I separated from the military in the summer of 2022 I promised myself three things: 1) I would do whatever it took to leave that toxic environment (don’t get me wrong though, I have great friends and great memories with those friends and coworkers, but the overall environment was not for me,
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With the passing of Tina Turner , I’ve noticed that so much of the coverage of her life revolves around her abusive ex-husband and the various men she has crossed paths within her career professionally. It’s a curious thing when one’s obituary is largely dedicated to their abuser and with that the fear that we,
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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! 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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“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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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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