CW: Sexual assault, abusive parental relationship, stalking Depending on your music listening style, you will almost immediately recognize the title, Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be. It is a lyric from “If I Was Your Girlfriend” by Prince, which is the author Nichole Perkins’ favorite song by the royal purple one. Beyonce […]
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It was the premise of Julie Klam’s The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters that hooked me. The product page description tells of a curious author who, growing up, becomes fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. Over the years, she hears tales of their exploits: big dreams, big loss, abandonment, secret love affairs with
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Between the Bliss and Me by Lizzy Mason is a young adult novel focusing on mental illness, romance, and how family history can affect the plans of a teen. Eighteen-year-old Sidney Holman has decided to attend New York University (NYU), instead of her mother’s preferred Rutgers University, as a way to rebel and move out of the apartment that she
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Check out Aiden Yang’s book, The Spineless Porcupine, which is a beautiful story about friendship, inclusion and being yourself.
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If you have unresolved mommy issues, I would not suggest you to read Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. If you haven’t self-diagnosed yourself with said issues, then I highly recommend you read this! Crying in H Mart is a memoir outlining Zauner’s relationship with her mother, before, during, and after she dies of
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Feminist Book Club does not shy away from discussing difficult topics, as evident not only from our business model but also from our numerous blog posts on social justice and our Educate and Activate series. Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise Busby (also known for her online persona Jillsiblack) is a collection of
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Summary CW: domestic abuse Have you ever witnessed your friend or family member in a toxic relationship? Have you yourself ever been in a toxic relationship? To an outside perspective it seems impossible why anyone would ever stay in an unhealthy relationship. But to the person inside the relationship…it’s not that easy. In this story,
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer is the debut novel of Jamie Figueroa. Her bio on her website states that she is “Boricua (Afro-Taíno) by way of Ohio and long-time resident of northern New Mexico.” Boricua is a person from Puerto Rico by birth or descent and the Taíno “were an Arawak people who were the indigenous
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Emma talks a little about adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism and how adrienne maree brown writes about healing, pleasure activism, and transformative justice. Then Renee shares five books that made her (otherwise stone cold) heart break. Follow and support our hosts: Emma: Instagram Renee: Instagram Mentioned in today’s episode: Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling
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Know My Name is Chanel Miller’s memoir where she writes about her life, including her now highly publicized sexual assault in January 2015 and the events that unfolded after that. The memoir focuses on the day of the assault as well as the court case, People vs. Turner. Turner was convicted of three charges of
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (SMG) was born and raised in Mexico, and moved to Canada in 2004, where she later graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Master’s degree in Science and Technology Studies. SMG has published short stories in fiction magazines and anthologies for many years. Her debut novel Signal to Noise published in
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For my entire life, Roe v. Wade has been a mantra. A given. The sort of thing you could always rely on, like death, taxes, and your child waking you up before your alarm. Then Amy Coney Barrett was nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court and the articles starting filling up my newsfeed: No
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