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! As a disabled woman, I think about the ways life is inaccessible a lot. Most of life is dictated by inaccessibility. Can I […]
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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! It can be hard to keep up with the attacks against human rights happening right now. In Texas v. Becerra, 17 states filed
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TW: Femicide, Stalking “For the past 10 years I’ve been going non-stop to build my project and it’s come to the point that I need to draw lines and set boundaries,” singer Chappell Roan said in an Instagram post in August, following what she described as a series of “nonconsensual physical and social interactions.” Whether
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In the southeast United States it is currently hurricane season or, as I like to call it, the time when personal politics and emergencies intersect in the most baffling of ways. You may have heard in a few places on this site that I dabble in emergency management (it’s my very own Harriet Jones introductions
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Imagine my delight when a friend sent me a video of a woman espousing feminist rage in iambic pentameter with a broad Scottish accent. That, was how I was introduced to the work of Len Pennie. Originally shared with me in part due to the aforementioned feminist rage but also because of our shared Scottish
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This post is sponsored by Doubleday and includes affiliate links which means we make a small commission on any sales. All opinions are my own. Partnerships like these help us to pay our staff and to keep feminist media independent! Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra humanizes the human
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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! Elissa Strauss’s new book When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others is a moving mediation on the nature of care,
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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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![New podcast episode 🧜♀️ Dive into the enchanting and eerie world of selkies, sirens, and mermaids with author and literary agent Rachel Ekstrom Courage (@racheleckstromcourage) and FBC contributor, Jordy (@weywardbooks)!
In this episode, we explore the origins of these mythical women, their ties to patriarchal narratives, and why their stories continue to captivate us today. Jordy also shares some mermaid and siren inspired novels that are on her TBR (to be read) list.
Find this episode anywhere you listen to podcasts or stream from our blog!
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