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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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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If there’s one thing Feminist Book Club does well, it’s demonstrating how beautifully complex and multifaceted feminists are. In this episode, you’ll hear Ashley and Tayler’s thoughts on the juggernaut that is Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter (is it a country album?) and then you’ll learn a thing or two about how the government collects demographic data with our resident civil servant and data geek Natalia.
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I – like many of you, like many of US – have been reeling about the SCOTUS decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In the 6-3 decision, writing for the majority the majority argued that Roe v. Wade (1971) & Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1991) were not Constitutional and no rights existed in
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Well hello everyone, long time no write! I’m here today to share an interview I did with author Connie Hertzberg Mayo about her latest novel The Sharp Edge of Mercy coming out May 6, 2022. I received the book as part of a sponsorship but I think we all know by now that all opinions
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Native American Organizations Doing Amazing Work Women’s Earth Alliance – Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA) envisions a world in which women are empowered, communities thrive, and the Earth regenerates. Their mission is to catalyze women-led, grassroots solutions to protect our environment. This is a previous recipient of FBC funds! Native Women Lead – Their mission is
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Renee recently interviewed Luvvie Ajayi-Jones to discuss her new book Professional Troublemaker: The Fear Fighter Manual. We watched the book launch and become a New. York. Times. Bestseller (#blessed) and are so excited to have this amazing opportunity to feature an edited excerpt of Professional Troublemaker for our readers. Read it. Internalize it. Question the
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Our theme this month is Fat Liberation and our members voted (overwhelmingly) for The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor. We lucked out and got early access (two of my favorite words!!) to the upcoming revised and expanded second edition of an already wonderful book. Chat with the Author We are so
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I woke up on January 6, 2021 very excited to hear where the Georgia run-off elections were going and ended the day totally distraught about the domestic terrorism that occurred at the Capitol. I could not let today go by without talking about what happened yesterday on this blog. White supremacists, Neo-Nazi’s, and the other
Picture it… January 2021. You’ve just finished voting on the book of the month with your fellow Feminist Book Club members. The theme? Courage. The winner of the community vote? Difficult Women by Roxane Gay. You’ve added the runner ups to your TBR list. Everything is good. Chat with the Author Roxane Gay will be
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Today we have a guest post by Dr. Ruth Saxton. Dr. Saxton is a Professor Emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Over the course of her forty-two-year career, she has studied, taught, and published works on fiction by women, focusing on how narratives limit or expand what we imagine to be possible.
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