Feminist Book Club blog contributors are working together to create posts in an “Educate & Activate” series. We will define a term or movement, provide historical context, and give you additional resources to learn more. We believe that an educated populace makes for better activists, accomplices and co-conspirators. It is important to note that these […]
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If you want to make [Goddess] laugh, tell her your plans. Plan A was to launch this blog after a redesign and after all of the book festivals in late 2020. (LOL all cancelled) Plan B was to launch this blog on June 1 with fun book reviews and joyful essays. (LOLsob civil unrest) So
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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: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Genres: Non-fiction, personal development Read if you like: your therapist and want to know
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“Especially with racial pain in America, people ask you for your story so they can tell you they don’t believe it.” – Mira Jacob, episode 34 Feminist Book Club is committed to amplifying the voices of feminist authors, and debut authors of color more specifically. In lieu of a new interview this week,
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Lists of organizations, resources and book lists below. *Photo taken with subjects’ consent by Renee M. Powers, Minneapolis MN, May 26, 2020 Last update: 5/31/2020 at 10:55am Feminist Book Club is headquartered 10 blocks from where Minneapolis police officers murdered George Floyd. We did not know Mr. Floyd but he was our neighbor. We stand
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“There were a lot of people in the Civil Rights movement who did things that were so important to move the country forward who were not in the South.” – Lisa Braxton Lisa Braxton is an Emmy-nominated former television journalist, a former newspaper reporter, an essayist, short story writer and author of THE TALKING DRUM.
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“Hope is not this delicate wishy-washy thing. Hope is ferocious. Hope can eclipse the darkest things that we experience.” – Rocky Callen Rocky Callen, the daughter of an Ecuadorian immigrant, has long lived a life of service ever since she was a 13-year-old when she started to advocate for social rights at congress. She continued
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“Just because a state has an abortion restriction law that isn’t as strict as another state doesn’t mean that it’s not as damaging.” – Nicole Maggi Nicole Maggi began writing poems about unicorns and rainbows at a very early age. She detoured into acting, earned a BFA from Emerson College, and moved to NYC where
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“The novel will be imbued with a new sense of thought after people watch the show and then they’ll come to the book with a new perspective.” – Abbe Wright Abbe Wright is the host of The Adaptables and the Read It Forward podcasts, and is Senior Editor of Read it Forward, an online 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: BookRiot reading log This is how I track all my reading! Rules For Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno Genres: Young adult, fiction Read if you like: Gossip
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“There tends to be a feeling of who belongs in small towns and if you’re an outlier in any way, the town will try to get you to conform.” – Jeni McFarland Jeni McFarland holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston, where she was a fiction editor at Gulf Coast Magazine.
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“For women, we spend a lot of time observing how other women are being received and we pay a lot of attention to how we are being received, in a way that men just don’t have to think about.” – Andrea Bartz Andrea Bartz is a Brooklyn-based journalist and author of the forthcoming thriller THE
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