Blog, Podcast Shownotes

Maternal Hauntings and Surveillance in Mother is Watching

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Marlena and Mariquita discuss Mother is Watching, the horror debut by Karma Brown. In this spoiler-free conversation, they explore how the novel uses horror to amplify everyday anxieties around motherhood, bodily autonomy, and identity. Together, they unpack the emotional stakes at the heart of the story, examining how art, obsession, and pregnancy intertwine to blur […]

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The Mother Act - book cover and author photo (Heidi Reimer)
Author Interview, Blog

The Give and Take of Motherhood: An Interview with Heidi Reimer of The Mother Act

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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! I’m the mother of a 9-year-old. I love her to bits. We are thisclose. She is my everything. Except maybe not… everything? Because

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book cover of Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky featuring a 1950s-style illustrated white woman in a man's embrace
Blog, Book Reviews

Book Review: Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky

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Heather Havrilesky’s Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage is more than just a memoir about marriage. As its title suggests, the book is a no-holds-barred deep dive into what really happens in that slow stringing together of day-to-day life that is the reality of “happily ever after.” Outrageously hilarious and deeply vulnerable, Foreverland is

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