Right now, Iran is going through a revolutionary movement led by young women and girls who are standing up for their equal rights under an Islamic regime. Since 1979, Iran has been under a strict Islamic regime that prevents women from having many legal rights. Some of those strict rules include wearing a mandatory hijab, […]
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Love the image above? We’re bringing back our Read. Resist. Vote. shirts. Get yours now! And we’re back! It’s week two in this year’s Read. Resist. Vote. series (you can find week one right here) and we have two more candidates to inspire and galvanize you into mobilizing for social change, whatever that looks like
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Love the image above? We’re bringing back our Read. Resist. Vote. shirts. Get yours now! In 2020, our Editor-in-Chief — Natalia Santana — worked with Feminist Book Club members to curate a list of progressive, female candidates to feature on this blog. Her intention was not only to spotlight kickass female candidates, but also to
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Near the end of the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial, I started reading Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste. It tells the story of Lucy and Bertha, victims of two iconic men: Dracula and Mr. Rochester. Lucy and Bertha are living in Los Angeles in the 1960s, in a world in which their abusers
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I recently read my first book with a content warning featured at the beginning. We Weren’t Looking to be Found by Stephanie Kuehn most definitely needed one; it was filled with some gnarly depictions. Another book I have been reading (forever) that has content warnings is Postcolonial Astrology by Alice Sparkly Kat. This book gives
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I’ll never forget where I was when I found out the Queen of England had died, just because it felt so absurd to me. “Oh my God,” I heard coming from down the hall as I was meeting with my student. “…DIED!” At first, I thought they were talking about the abortion ban South Carolina
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In the first half of this episode Annie and Ashley continue the conversation about women’s sports. This time, the conversation leads more into athletes admired for their activism, what speaking about mental health on a grand stage means, and double standards amidst sports. A quick apology about the barks of Annie’s dog, Tobin Keith! His
GOODREADS DESCRIPTION: An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie. As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment, halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape
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Earlier this summer, I decided to check out an adult book fair in my town. I was ecstatic for a chance to walk down memory lane and go to a good old-fashioned book fair. We can go on a whole tangent as to why Scholastic book fairs were a spectacle for income inequality, but for
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When I was thinking about who I wanted to interview for a blog about feminism, Katie Welch was one of the first people to come to mind. She has built her impressive and burgeoning career as a singer-songwriter and producer from the ground up. Welch has even become a household name in certain parts of
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Mariame Kaba, director and founder of Project Nia, co-founder of Instructing Criminalization, member of Survived and Punished, and author of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us spoke with Feminist Book Club about the relationship between feminism and abolition, and about abolition in a capitalistic state. Here are just some of the highlights from what was
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I had the opportunity to sit down with Lucia Yess, Founder of Yess Yoga, to talk about radical inclusivity in yoga and how she creates a welcoming community in her studio in Minneapolis. I have been a member of Yess Yoga since July of 2019 and have never wavered in my draw to Lucia and
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