This post includes affiliate links, which means we make a small commission on any sales. All opinions are my own. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up Too Much by Cindy Lee Neighbors, MD. The memoir is billed as being about her time “trapped in a system that values hierarchy, patriarchy, and […]
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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! In the opening chapter of Jane Tara’s Tilda Is Visible (out in February), the titular character is working at her computer when she
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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! There’s a meme I love that I believe captures my essence. In the image at the heart of this meme, a young girl
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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! I’ve spent the past decade being angry. Angry at the neighbor who is always flying some new and hateful flag in front of
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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! I’m the mother of a 9-year-old. I love her to bits. We are thisclose. She is my everything. Except maybe not… everything? Because
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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! I’ve spent much of my life being very particular about which genres I actually read. Horror, of course, holds the number one spot.
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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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When I took my mom bra shopping, we both agreed we were done with underwires. My mother was 72 years old, aka at the ripe old age of IDGAF. At 42, I… well, I had never given too much of AF, but I hadn’t discovered bralettes and other wireless bras until recently. Previously, whenever my
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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! We stood in the lap lanes of our local pool, bobbing gently, skin pimpling in the cold as we stared expectantly up at
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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! In early 2019, before COVID-19 consumed the world, I wrote the beginning of a horror story while on a writing retreat in the
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You may have noticed—in the time I’ve been writing for the Feminist Book Club—that I lean toward certain types of books. Sure, I enjoy memoir. I sometimes read sci-fi. I have a thing for comics and graphic novels. I have an entire shelf’s worth of narrative nonfiction about sex ed. But more than anything else,
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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! My mom and I faced each other in the upstairs bathroom—me sitting on the closed lid of the toilet, her standing before me—at
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