January 2020
Book: The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
Featured Businesses: All Are Welcome Here // Leonetti Confetti // Eat Chic Chocolates // Epically Embroidered
Charity Beneficiary: Welcoming America
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December 2019
Book: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Featured Businesses: Funky Monkey Fashion Accessories // These Are Things // Cup and Kettle Tea
Charity Beneficiary: The Well Project
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November 2019
Book: Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Featured Businesses: Vixed Baking Company // Soak It Up Cloths // Oh It’s Natural // Cultivate Counseling and Wellness
Charity Beneficiary: Abortion Access Front
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October 2019
Book: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Featured Businesses: The Card Bureau // Matzo Project // Virgo Voodoo // HerStry
Charity Beneficiary: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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September 2019
Book: Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space by Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin
Featured Businesses: Unladylike // LOLLiDALE // CaribBrew // Fabulously Feminist // Mesic Movement
Charity Beneficiary: #HappyPeriod
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August 2019
Book: Lead From the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams
Featured Businesses: Fourth Wave Apparel // The Yes Bar // Confident Girls // Little Seed Farm
Charity Beneficiary: Nalgona Positivity Pride
July 2019
Book: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Featured Businesses: Primal Noms // Homespun Trades // Silk Road Wellness // AndieandErin // Unearth Women
Charity Beneficiary: INCITE!
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June 2019
Book: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Featured Businesses: Benevolence Farm // Emily McDowell & Friends // LUNA Bar // Crime Crazy Podcast
Charity Beneficiary: Benevolence Farm
May 2019
Book: Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Featured Businesses: Parchment Nail Polish // Book Art Bookmarks // Glee Gum // Planned Parenthood
Charity Beneficiary: Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio
April 2019
Book: Everything’s Trash But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
Featured Businesses: Unearth Women // Lil Bucks // Sweet B Design // MAIA Community // Women Drinking Beer
Charity Beneficiary: Animal Experience International
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March 2019
Book: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Featured Businesses: Flip’em the Bird // Thumbs Cookies // ECOBAGS // Pursey Handbags // Maggie Germano
Charity Beneficiary: Young Minds Advocacy
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February 2019
Book: F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism by Lauren McKeon
Featured Businesses: Fast Mary’s // Smitten Kitten // Sprinkles & Confetti // Claws Out // Dressing Room 8 // Style For It
Charity Beneficiary: WEWIN
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January 2019
Book: Women and Madness by Phyllis Chesler
Featured Businesses: Human Is Human // Siena Soap Company // Luxe Lathers Boutique // Compass Spanish // Boobies & Noobies
Charity Beneficiary: RAD Remedy
December 2018
Book: Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Featured Businesses: Isadore Nut Company // Nicole Piar // Dirty Lamb // Wise Ink // The Country Muffin // Rosemary’s Ladies
Charity Beneficiary: AnitaB.org
November 2018
Book: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay
Featured Businesses: Kei & Molly Textiles // THIS FEM // Fabulously Feminist // Timber & Tulip
Charity Beneficiary: Safe BAE
October 2018
Book: Circe by Madeline Miller
Featured Businesses: Happy Hearts Tees // Evelyn Roger Beauty + Skincare // Bewitched Boneyard
Charity Beneficiary: Girls For a Change
September 2018
Book: Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis*
Featured Businesses: City Girl Coffee // Bewitched Boneyard
Charity Beneficiary: Cafe Femenino
*Not all our books are explicitly feminist but we do read them through a feminist lens. We chose this book so we could better critique the anti-feminist sentiments in it.
August 2018
Book: Austenistan edited by Laaleen Sukhera
Featured Businesses: Wood + Weiher // Arza Jewelry
Charity Beneficiary: Peaceful Families Project
July 2018
Book: This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
Featured Businesses: Melissa C. Mark Jewelry // Pretty Prints and Paper by Jessica Chung
Charity Beneficiary: Trans Women of Color Collective
June 2018
Book: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Featured Business: Peney Cakes
May 2018
Book: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Featured Businesses: Sweet B Design // Feminist Sticker Club
April 2018
Book: Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen
Featured Business: Fabulously Feminist
March 2018
Book: Witches Sluts Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive by Kristen J. Sollee
