Podcast Shownotes

“A lot of times, we define feminism as equality, but if we’re measuring that against power structures that only got to power through oppression, then it’s not good enough.” – Natalia Sylvester  Born in Lima, Peru, Natalia Sylvester is an award-winning writer of novels, essays, and poetry, including two novels for adults, CHASING THE SUN […]

“What did my people have to do to survive in order for me to exist in the first place? That is what’s great about genealogy.” – Morgan Jerkins Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing and her newest book Wandering In Strange Lands: A Daughter of

 “We need to be mindful about this concept of books teaching you something, especially books from different cultures. You can never summarize a whole country, culture, or reality from just one point of view.” – Bianca Herzog Bianca Liu Herzog is the creator of @mybookworldtour, the Instagram account dedicated to her journey in reading

“That was the starting place for me – how had we gone from a place of quiet support for refugees to a place of deep anti-refugee sentiment?” – Jessica Goudeau Jessica Goudeau has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, among many other places, and is a

“Anxieties about the world are driving people to horror fiction because they can feel the fear that they would’ve been feeling anyways but they know that these things at least can’t become real.” – Alexis Henderson Alexis Henderson is a speculative fiction writer with a penchant for dark fantasy, witchcraft, and cosmic horror. She grew

“It’s important to me as a woman to make room for other women to be human, to express their wants in any form it takes.” – Raven Leilani Raven Leilani‘s work has been published in Granta, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and The Cut. She received her MFA from NYU, and was an Axinn

“Domestic violence is the entrée into the world in which men’s violence controls women’s movement and bodies and lives.” – Rachel Louise Snyder Rachel Louise Snyder is an American journalist, writer, and professor. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and regular contributor to The New Yorker covering domestic violence, and her work has appeared in

“In a big way, Lobizona is a treatise on labels. It’s about having access two languages but still lacking the language to define yourself. It’s about coming from two worlds but belonging to neither.” – Romina Garber Romina Garber is a New York Times and international bestselling author whose books include Lobizona & the ZODIAC

“A lot of times women’s stories are automatically tagged as chick lit. But if you read the same kind of story about a man, it would be heralded as literature. There’s not really men’s fiction or dude lit.” – Laura Hankin Laura Hankin has written for McSweeney’s and HuffPost, among other publications. The viral videos