In our new series, Sally proposes a bookish Double Date by sharing two of her favorite books on a particular topic, starting with America’s founders. Taking a deep dive into the early years of U.S. history may not seem super sexy, but these books are engaging and offer insights your teachers might have missed in […]
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This post was sponsored by Books Forward and 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’s History Month is the perfect time to learn about badass women of days gone by —
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This post was sponsored by Hanover Square Press and 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 a sucker for non-fiction books that correct historical records in a way that is engaging,
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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! The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama had all the makings to become a bestseller just like her previous
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Renee and Mariquita were pitched a book described as “a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver” and knew they had to discuss it. Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns is an unexpected live wire of a novel about a young woman of color driving for a rideshare app and just trying
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The classic feminist text Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis was published 40 years ago, yet it remains as relevant as ever. In this episode, Sally & Tayler sit down to talk about its impact on them, and how it might help us get to the liberation we desire and deserve. Books &
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Queenie: Godmother of Harlem by Elizabeth Colomba and Aurélie is a bio-graphic novel following the life of Stephanie St. Clair. A woman, who during the time of New York’s mob scene, ran Harlem through her creation of the underground numbers racket. We learn of Queenie’s origins from Martinique through to her control and protection of
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I want to read more utopian fiction–fiction that imagines that another, better world is possible, and considers the ways that we might get there. In literature and TV, dystopias abound, and I can see their appeal. I find them too often relatable, and regularly riveting. Our way of being so often feels imperiled. Climate change
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There just aren’t enough books about friendship, you know? For many of us, our friendships are some of the most important relationships we’ll ever have, and they deserve to be celebrated and represented in the books we read. In this segment Sally shares five of her favorite books about friendship. In the second segment, Jen
On December 8th a certain book choice award was announced and we were thoroughly unimpressed. We decided it’s time for a NEW book choice award that celebrates the books that have found a place on our diversified bookshelves. We took nominations from our community of readers and opened up voting to the public. We received
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So, someone has recently come out to you. Or maybe you suspect someone will in the near future. Or maybe you just like reading blog posts about hypothetical situations that do not and will never apply to you. Whatever brought you here, welcome! I’m happy to help. Coming out can be a daunting process that
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![There are times that you need to reach for a book that can help you address the more sorrowful feelings that bubble up in times of grief 📚️
Here are a couple that have come across our desk:
📕Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community by Camille Sapara Barton (@natlanticbooks)
"An embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community—practical exercises, decolonized rituals, and Earth-based medicines for healing and processing loss"
📘I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: 18 Assurances on Grief Clare Mackintosh (@sourcebooks)
"Inspired by a viral Twitter thread Clare wrote on the anniversary of her son’s death, this book offers 18 short assurances that are full of compassion. This book is for the loved ones offering support but don’t know what else to say and for the grieving who are searching for answers and a kind voice to turn to."
Do you have a book that you've read that helped address getting through grief?
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