Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"
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40: Dr. Jen Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible

“Misinformation is the opposite of feminism. Telling people less about their bodies is harmful. It’s making them follow patriarchal myths.” – Dr. Jen Gunter Dr. Jen Gunter is an obstetrician and gynecologist with nearly three decades of experience as a vulvar and vaginal disease expert. She writes two regular columns for the New York Times

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[38] Ivelisse Rodriguez, author of Love War Stories

“We teach women that love is the thing to strive for and I think that’s problematic.” – Ivelisse Rodriguez   Ivelisse Rodriguez’s debut short story collection Love War Stories is a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is the founder and editor of an interview series focused on contemporary Puerto Rican writers

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[35] Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter

   “Maybe we’re finally realizing that not having a matriarchy means that nobody has ever really had a mother, a whole full-functioning human being.” – Sophia Shalmiyev Sophia Shalmiyev emigrated from Leningrad to America in 1990. She is a feminist writer and painter living in Portland with her two children. Shalmiyev’s work has appeared

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