photo by Laura Alpizar As the founder of Feminist Book Club, I spend a lot of my time thinking about and grappling with my privilege and my responsibility to the intersectional feminist movement. I am a white, cisgender, middle-class, able-bodied, English-speaking, educated woman, business owner, and leader. Trust me when I say that I consider […]
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On November 12, 2001 – 61 days after 9/11 – American Airlines flight 587 going from New York City to Las Americas Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic crashed in Queens. 251 passengers and nine crew members died along with five people on the ground. Because of when it happened people thought it was a
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“My books are all romance novels, they’re about falling in love, but I want that to be a story about two equals coming together rather than a woman being saved by a relationship.” – Jasmine Guillory Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal, The Wedding Party, Royal Holiday, and Party of Two.
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The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson is a multi-generational novel that features the dysfunctional family of the Millers and a 137-carat diamond. The matriarch of the family, Helen Miller, leaves the Florentine Diamond, an actual lost diamond, to her youngest granddaughter, Beck. Beck, who is closer to Helen, than her mother, Deborah, decides to split
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I’ve spent the past 20 years writing about female sexual health. For the majority of that time, I suspected that I was suffering from some form of female sexual dysfunction, both because of “low” libido levels and because of painful intercourse. The male-dominated medical establishment wasn’t providing any answers. The desire to fix myself drove
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June was my best reading month of 2020 and I have quarantine and the end of the school year to thank for that. My intention for the month of June was to only read books that featured queer characters or were written by queer authors, but there were a few books in there that
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Fourth of July in the United States of America is a day for standing out by a grill, eating burgers and hot dogs and, frankly questionable, potato salad while in your backyard. The food is really a distraction until you can blow fireworks up in your back yard while slightly drunk. While there’s nothing wrong
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“My goal for this world was to bring together the western medieval-style fantasies I loved growing up with bits of my own cultural influences. Growing up, I didn’t think that characters that looked like me could have the happy ending.” – Lori M. Lee Lori M. Lee was born in the mountains of Laos, but
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Looking to support diversity in literature while also broadening the horizons of your Instagram feed? Then you need to check out these wonderful bookstagrammers who are making moves with their own unique photographic style and themes that are sure to inspire. They’re advocates for diversity in lit, along with spreading the word with important book
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An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Listen to this podcast using the player above! Mentioned in this episode: Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West Genres: Contemporary fiction Read if you like: multigenerational family sagas, complicated Black father-daughter relationships, unconditional female friendships Also of note: Tune into our interview with
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote a book about my sex life. More specifically, it was about the ways in which our culture treats female sexuality like a dirty word, framed within the context of my own sexual journey, which included coercive sex within the context of a sexually and emotionally abusive relationship and an
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Recommendations compiled by Natalia & Rashmila Art & editing by Claudia Disappointed that JK Rowling is a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist)? Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered with our best recommendations from the badasses themselves, Feminist Book Club members. Interested in reading more recommendations by Feminist Book Club Members? Read PART 2 in our series,
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