Poetry has the motion of a hummingbird yet the stillness of steam rising from a mug. In Jasmine Mans’ poetry collection, Black Girl, Call Home, she gives breath to Black women with agency, communities, and bravura. Mundanity and structure are bones for many of the poems. “That Was Her Way of Showing God” details a […]
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Christine explains what a cinnamon roll character is and shares a few of her favorites. Phalin reviews one of her new favorite books by a Youtuber she’s watched for some time, The Game of Desire by Shan Boodram. And Renee breaks down everything that’s in May’s Feminist Book Club box. Follow and Support our Hosts:
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Summary Have you ever read a book from the point of view of a therapist? Or even more meta – a therapist who is going to therapy? In Lori Gottlieb’s novel, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, she writes about her own experiences in therapy, both as a therapist and client. Whether it’s Julie coming
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It has been many years since I was the target audience for this type of story, but I found myself relating to Charlie Vega in a lot of ways. As a Latina with a body that has never (and will never) fit society’s traditional beauty standards, I truly wish that I had this book growing
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In collaboration with Kaymara at Decentered Lit, Feminist Book Club read the book Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn as our pick for March’s Read Caribbean theme. Here Comes the Sun is Dennis-Benn’s debut novel about different Jamaican women who reside in River Bank and how each of their lives are impacted by the
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Recently, Amanda Bynes’ and Britney Spears’ conservatorships have been a hot topic. What is a conservatorship? What is conservatorship abuse? Who do conservatorships affect the most? Today, Phalin will try to answer those questions with her Google law school accolades. Then Renee shares a review of one of her favorite books of 2021 so far, Firekeeper’s
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In this double c (and I’m not talking about Chanel) world that is pressed upon us by vile, incompetent, and greedy simpletons, what is holding someone ACCOUNTABLE for their actions has been deemed a firebrand. The double c’s are actually a bad entanglement with alliteration. We live in a real world where people and their
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This past February, Juwan J. Holmes of LGBTQ Nation reported that Georgia was considering a piece of anti-trans legislation that would ban transgender girls from participating in school sports. This bill — House Bill 372 — would redefine gender as “a person’s biological sex at birth,” require state-funded schools and associations to ban student-athletes from
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We have a nerdy double header for you today! First, Niba brings on science writer Bri Barbu to discuss the actual science behind truth serums, where we’ve seen them in popular media, how they’re used, and whether they could or should work in the real world. Then Mariquita is back with one of her hallmark
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When I spoke to Rachel Fey, the senior director of public policy at Power to Decide, about the new administration the other month, she was giddy. “We’ve spent the last four years playing defense… playing whack-a-mole,” she said. “Trying to protect what we have. But what we know is that’s really not good enough.” She
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For those of you who have seen the HBO series, “Girls” you knew this was coming. If you haven’t, watch it! Well…maybe read this post before you dive in. A few weeks ago I was reading Roxane Gay’s, Bad Feminist, a collection of short stories. One of the short stories discussed the show “Girls” and
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