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“We are presented an awful lot of the time that there’s one experience of the world that counts and all the others are lesser and trivial. When you fight against that it is, even obliquely, a feminist move.” - Tana French Tana French is the author of eight books, including In the Woods, The Likeness, and The Witch Elm. Her novels have sold over three million copies and won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. Her newest book The Searcher is out now. She lives in Dublin with her family. Connect with Tana on her website. Tana's book recommendation: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our November book of the month is BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: The Searcher by Tana French Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey The Lady Upstairs by Halley Sutton You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper Written in Starlight by Isabel Ibañez Somewhere in the Unknown World by Kao Kalia Yang -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

“What I’m always trying to do is make sure Indigenous people show up in narratives of the future.” - Rebecca Roanhorse Rebecca Roanhorse is the New York Times bestselling author of Trail of Lightning, Storm of Locusts, Star Wars: Resistance Reborn, and Race to the Sun. She has won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards for her fiction, and was the recipient of the 2018 Astounding (formerly Campbell) Award for Best New Writer. Her latest book, Black Sun, is out now. She lives in New Mexico with her family. Connect with Rebecca on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Rebecca's book recommendations:  anything that's won a Hugo Award, especially A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our November book of the month is BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

“An American experience isn’t just a white experience. But so much media shows that only white people have a basic American experience while people of color have struggled, and that’s not all it is.” - Francina Simone Francina Simone believes in one thing: authenticity. She writes YA stories full of humor and hard life lessons with sprinkles of truth that make us all feel understood. Her craft focuses on stories about girls throwing caution to the wind to discover exactly who they are and what it means to love. Francina is also known for her BookTube channel, where she discusses controversial topics in books. Her brand new novel SMASH IT! is out now from Inkyard Press. Connect with Francina on her website, YouTube, or Instagram. Francina's book recommendations:  Heirs of Fate by Amara Luciano Awkward, Brave, and Crush by Svetlana Chmakova   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our November charity is Native Women's Wilderness. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our November book of the month is BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

“When I encounter women who are antifeminist, it’s always disorienting to me. I don’t understand how you can be a successful, happy woman right now unless you are a feminist.” - Kara Lee Corthron Kara Lee Corthron is an author, playwright, and TV-writer based in Los Angeles. Her latest book is DAUGHTERS OF JUBILATION. She’s also the author of THE TRUTH OF RIGHT NOW, winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award. Her plays including WHAT ARE YOU WORTH?, WELCOME TO FEAR CITY, ALICEGRACEANON, and HOLLY DOWN IN HEAVEN, have been performed across the U.S. She writes for the TV drama-thrillers YOU (Netflix), THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT (HBO-Max), and M. Night Shyamalan's SERVANT (Apple TV+). She’s a multiyear MacDowell Fellow and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Connect with Kara on her website, Instagram,  or Twitter.   Kara's book recommendation: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Also mentioned: Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the #FBCReadathon October 9-11! Sign up to be eligible for prizes. Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson, who will be joining us for our discussion!   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

 An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Smash It! by Francina Simone Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins (podcast episode here) Running by Natalia Sylvester (podcast episode here) The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron One of the Good Ones by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

"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 and EVERYONE KNOWS YOU GO HOME. Her debut YA novel, RUNNING, is a 2020 Junior Library Guild Selection that has been called "a searing exploration of privilege" by Shelf Awareness and an embodiment of "the theme of our decade: to stand up and speak up for what we believe in" by Booklist. Sylvester's essays have appeared in the New York Times, Bustle, Catapult, Latina magazine, and McSweeney’s Publishing. She received a BA in creative writing from the University of Miami and now lives and writes in Texas. Connect with Natalia on her website, Instagram,  or Twitter.   Natalia's book recommendations:  The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert I'm Not Missing by Carrie Fountain Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the #FBCReadathon October 9-11! Sign up to be eligible for prizes. Check out our Read. Resist. Vote. series featuring progressive woman candidates. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson, who will be joining us for our discussion!   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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 the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. A visiting professor at Columbia University and Senior Editor at ZORA, Jerkins's short form work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Esquire, and The Guardian, among many others. She is based in Harlem. Connect with Morgan on her Instagram or Twitter. Morgan's book recommendations:  Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin   Thank you for celebrating our 100th episode with us. Check out the ridiculous Instagram live celebration here. Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Rhino Parade. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our October charity is March of Dimes. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson, who will be joining us for our discussion!   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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 one womxn authored book from every country in the world. When she isn’t reading, Bianca works full-time in international cooperation, with a focus on global youth development and empowerment. Bianca is Brazilian, of Chinese and German heritage, and currently lives in Paris, France, with her boyfriend and their puppy Oscar, but is packed to move to New York City as soon as COVID-19 allows. Books mentioned: Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World edited by Zahra Hankir (Lebanon) Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (Mexico) As Andorinhas (not in translation) and The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane (Mozambique) The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya (Rwanda) I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú (Guatemala) Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali (Yemen) Ponciá Vicêncio and Becos da Memória (not in translation) by Conceição Evaristo (Brazil) Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero (Ecuador) Afakasi Women by Lani Wendt Young (Samoa)   Read Rashmila's interview with the folks behind Mujeristas Collective on our blog. Get 25% off your Pretty Peacock Paperie order with the code FEMINIST. Get 25% off the Writer's Atelier writing course Plotting Your Prose with bestselling author Amy Christine Parker with the code FEMINIST. Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the Feminist Book Club Team! Click to see our open positions here.   We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our October book of the month is THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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 former columnist for Catapult. She produced projects for Teen Vogue (“Ask a Syrian Girl”) and “A Line Birds Cannot See,” a documentary about a young girl who crossed the border into the US on her own. She has a PhD in literature from the University of Texas and served as a Mellon Writing Fellow and Interim Writing Center Director at Southwestern University. Goudeau has spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, TX and is the co-founder of Hill Tribers, a nonprofit that provided supplemental income for Burmese refugee artisans for seven years.  Click to buy AFTER THE LAST BORDER. Connect with Jessica on her website, Instagram or Twitter. Jessica's book recommendations:  The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the Feminist Book Club Team! Click to see our open positions here.   We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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 up in one of America’s most haunted cities, Savannah, Georgia, which instilled in her a life-long love of ghost stories. Currently, Alexis resides in the sun-soaked marshland of Charleston, South Carolina. Click to buy THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING. Connect with Alexis on her website, Instagram or Twitter. Alexis' book recommendation: The First Sister by Lindon A. Lewis   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Join the Feminist Book Club Team! Click to see our open positions here.   We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo Luster by Raven Leilani The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford   -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

"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 Foundation Writer-in-Residence. Her debut novel, Luster is out now from FSG. Connect with Raven on her website or Twitter. Raven's book recommendation: These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Minneapolis Craft Market. Get 10% off your order with code FEMINIST at www.mplscraftmarket.com. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our September charity is Mujeristas Collective. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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 The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, New Republic, and elsewhere. In addition to No Visible Bruises, she is the author of a novel What We've Lost is Nothing. Both books are now out in paperback. Connect with Rachel on her website or Twitter. Rachel's book recommendations: Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford The Overstory by Richard Powers   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Reina Rebelde. Get 25% off your order with code FEMINIST at www.reinarebelde.com. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our September book of the month is HURRICANE SEASON by Fernanda Melchor.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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 series. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in Miami, Florida, she landed her first writing gig as a teen--a Sunday column for the Miami Herald that was later nationally syndicated--and she hasn't stopped writing since. Romina is a graduate of Harvard College and a Virgo to the core. Connect with Romina on her website, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. Romina's book recommendations: What They Don't Know by Nicole Maggi (podcast interview here) Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History by Sam Maggs Diamond City by Francesca Flores Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez (podcast interview here) Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Candy's Kloset. Find them on Etsy and Instagram. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border by Rosayro Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias by Pragya Agarwal It Is Wood, It Is Stone by Gabriella Burnham With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo   -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

"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 that she creates and stars in with her comedy duo, Feminarchy, have been featured in Now This, The New York Times, and Funny or Die. She grew up in Washington, D.C., attended Princeton University, and now lives in New York City, where she has performed off-Broadway, acted onscreen, and sung to far too many babies. Click to purchase HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT by Laura Hankin from our Bookshop.org site. Connect with Laura on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Check out Laura's comedy project FEMINARCHY here. Laura's book recommendations: Beach Read by Emily Henry Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"My identity is constantly evolving and shifting in part because the way that gender is structured in our society is fundamentally flawed. All of us to an extent are trying to navigate through that flawed system." - Meredith Talusan Meredith Talusan is an award-winning author and journalist who is the founding executive editor of them., Condé Nast's LGBTQ+ digital platform, where she is now a contributing editor. She has contributed to other books, including the New York Times bestseller Not That Bad (edited by Roxane Gay), Nasty Women, and Burn It Down. She writes frequently for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, WIRED, Condé Nast Traveller, and many other publications. She lives in the Western Catskills with her spouse and rescue mutt. Click to purchase FAIREST by Meredith Talusan from our Bookshop.org site. Connect with Meredith on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Be sure to check out her writing workshops here. Meredith's book recommendation: On Being Human by Jennifer Pastiloff  Also mentioned in this episode: Heavy by Kiese Layman The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"I spent much of my time in the lingerie department quietly grieving. I was so raw. And when my customers were raw with me, this was humanity in its most beautiful and intimate form." - Natalee Woods Natalee Woods is the author of the recent release Full Support: Lessons Learned in the Dressing Room (Chicago Review Press). She currently lives in Seattle and teaches within the public school system. Some of her other work has been featured in Salon, The Huffington Post, Chatelaine, and Reader’s Digest.  Connect with Natalee on her website or Instagram. Natalee's book recommendation: Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our August charity is The Loveland Foundation. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our August book of the month is HOOD FEMINISM: NOTES FROM THE WOMEN THAT A MOVEMENT FORGOT by Mikki Kendall.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and Time. She lives in Oakland, California. Connect with Jasmine on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Jasmine's book recommendation: The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Lotus and Luna. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"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 grew up in the far less tropical climate of Wisconsin where she still resides, although every winter makes her question why. She considers herself a unicorn aficionado, enjoys marathoning TV shows, and loves to write about magic, manipulation, and family. She is the author of several YA sci fi and fantasy books, including GATES OF THREAD AND STONE series, as well as a contributor to the anthologies COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES and A THOUSAND BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS. Her newest book, FOREST OF SOULS, released June 23 and is a 2020 Junior Library Guild selection. Connect with Lori on her website, Twitter, or Instagram. Lori's book recommendation: The Princess Will Save You by Sarah Henning Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West (FBC interview here) You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson (FBC interview here) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory (FBC interview forthcoming) F*ckface: And Other Stories by Leah Hampton Proposals for the Feminine Economy by Jennifer Armbrust Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  

"Anything worth studying and aligning yourself with is going to be complicated and, hopefully, evolving all the time as culture and language evolve." - Amanda Montell Amanda Montell is a writer, linguist, and author of the critically acclaimed book Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, published by HarperCollins in 2019 and available now in paperback. Wordslut has been praised by Time Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Kirkus Reviews, Publisher's Weekly, and the New York Times. Amanda lives in Los Angeles where she is currently developing Wordslut for television with FX, while working on her second book, which is about the language of cults. In her spare time, Amanda enjoys learning impractical languages, doting upon her spoiled pets, and volunteering as a crisis counselor for LGBTQ youth. Connect with Amanda on her website or Instagram. Amanda's book recommendations: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T. Kira Madden Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"At the heart of any story about Black liberation is a story about Black joy, is about being able to move freely without fear of violence or prejudice." - Leah Johnson Leah Johnson is a writer, editor and eternal Midwesterner, currently moonlighting as a New Yorker. She is a graduate of the fiction writing MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College and currently teaches in their undergraduate writing program. Leah is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow whose work has been published in BuzzFeed, Autostraddle, Catapult, and Electric Literature among others. Her bestselling debut YA novel, You Should See Me in a Crown was an Indies Introduce and Junior Library Guild selection. Her sophomore novel, Rise to the Sun is forthcoming from Scholastic in 2021. Connect with Leah on her website, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. Leah's book recommendation: All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Small Moments. -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our July charity is Soul Fire Farm. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our July book of the month is WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH by Elizabeth Acevedo.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose

"Equality is not exclusive to a group. Neither is it one particular group's responsibility to carry the torch for everyone else." - Catherine Adel West Catherine Adel West is an editor living and working in Chicago. She graduated with both her Bachelors and Masters of Science in Journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her work is published in Black Fox, Five2One, Better than Starbucks, Doors Ajar, 805 Lit + Art, The Helix Magazine, Lunch Ticket and Gay Magazine. Saving Ruby King is her first novel. PREORDER SAVING RUBY KING! Connect with Catherine on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Catherine's book recommendations: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley Kindred and Fledgling by Octavia Butler Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Also mentioned: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript83

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Braised Pork by An Yu Full Support: Lessons Learned in the Dressing Room by Natalee Woods (podcast interview forthcoming) This Spell Can't Last by Isabel Sterling How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell (podcast interview forthcoming) Happy & You Know It by Laura Hankin (podcast interview forthcoming) Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee (podcast interview forthcoming) Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan (podcast interview forthcoming)   -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript82  

"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. She received honorable mention in Writer’s Digest magazine’s 84th and 86th writing contests in the inspirational category and was a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. She is also a “debutante,” one of five debut novelists chosen for the Debutante Ball, a group blog for authors making their debut in the literary world, and writes book reviews.   Connect with Lisa on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Lisa's book recommendation: Rememberance by Rita Woods Check out The Debutante Ball blog featuring five debut authors! Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD. ◾️ Mayor Jacob Frey at 612-673-2100 ◾️ Hennepin County Attorney at 612-348-5550 ◾️ MPLS Internal Affairs Division at 612-673-3074 ◾️ MPLS Department of Civil Rights at 612-673-3012 ◾️ MPLS FBI field office at 763-569-8000 ◾️ MPD 3rd Precinct at 612-673-5703 ◾️ MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension at 651-793-7000 ◾️ Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis 612-788-8444 (phone numbers compiled by All Are Welcome Here)   CLICK FOR MORE ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES (h/t FBC members Dave and Steph) -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript81

"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 her advocacy work for years and received a BA in Communications and Political Science. After college, she was a behavioral coach for over a decade and a writing mentor. She received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. A Breath Too Late, a young adult novel about suicide, depression and domestic violence is her debut novel. ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF A BREATH TOO LATE. Connect with Rocky on her website and Instagram. Rocky's book recommendations: Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Sadie by Courtney Summers   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our June charity is The Cupcake Girls. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript80

"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 she performed in a lot of off-off-Broadway Shakespeare. After a decade of schlepping groceries on the subway, she and her husband hightailed it to sunny Los Angeles, where they now reside surrounded by fruit trees, with their daughter and two oddball cats. Nicole is the author of six books, including five novels for teens and one non-fiction middle grade. Her 2018 novel What The Don’t Know was praised by Booklist as “an engaging, emotional debate on rape and abortion.” Her 2015 novel The Forgetting was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a #1 Kindle bestseller, and a finalist for the 2016 International Thriller Writers Thriller Award for YA Fiction.   Connect with Nicole on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Nicole's book recommendations: Lobizona by Romina Garber Educated by Tara Westover   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- Get 10% off your bamboo toilet paper with the code FEMINIST at bimbamboopaper.com. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our June book of the month is WOW, NO THANK YOU by Samantha Irby.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript79

"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 vertical that helps readers discover exciting new books and classic reads. Previously, she was a contributing editor at Glamour, where she helmed the magazine’s 2015 College Women of the Year competition, and an assistant editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, where she contributed to the Reading Room and Live Your Best Life sections and worked on Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. She has also written for The Cut, Metro, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, and Philadelphia Magazine. She earned a B.A. in English from Denison University in Granville, OH. She was raised outside of Philadelphia and lives in Brooklyn, NY.   Connect with Abbe on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Tune into The Adaptables on Apple Podcasts. Abbe's book recommendations: All Adults Here by Emma Straub The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré Stray: A Memoir by Stephanie Danler All My Mother's Lovers by Ilana Masad   Other books mentioned on this episode: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng The Assistants by Camille Perri The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz The Herd by Andrea Bartz Normal People by Sally Rooney Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty   Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript78

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: BookRiot reading log - template here Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell and Katie Cotugno (FBC interview here) Educated by Tara Westover The House of Deep Water by Jeni McFarland (FBC interview here) Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow What They Don't Know by Nicole Maggi (FBC interview forthcoming) A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen (FBC interview forthcoming) Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Naturally Tan by Tan France Trust Exercise by Susan Choi These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling The Talking Drum by Lisa Braxton (FBC interview forthcoming) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson -- Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript77  

"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. She's an alum of Tin House, a 2016 Kimbilio Fellow, and has had short fiction published in Crack the Spine, Forge, and Spry, which nominated her for the storySouth Million Writers Award. She was also a finalist for the 2015 Gertrude Stein Writers Award in Fiction from the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She has lived in Michigan and the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two cats. The House of Deep Water is her first book.   Connect with Jeni on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Jeni's book recommendation: Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez (listen to Ivelisse's episode here!) Shop all our authors' books and book recommendations on our Bookshop.org page! -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript76

"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 HERD. Her debut, THE LOST NIGHT, is being developed for TV by Mila Kunis. It was named a best book of the year by Real Simple, Glamour, Marie Claire, Library Journal, Crime Reads, Popsugar, She Reads, and other publications. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Martha Stewart Living, Elle, and many other outlets, and she's held editorial positions at Glamour, Psychology Today, and Self, among other titles. Connect with Andrea on her website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Andrea's book recommendations: Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar -- Enter to win a copy of THE HERD here! -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Artifacts of Joy by Lauren Strom. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our May charity is The Letter Project. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Pinterest: feministbookclub Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates Bookshop.org shop: Feminist Book Club Bookshop -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript75

"There are all these studies that show women lose their confidence at age 13 or 14. All this weird shit is happening and it changes your worldview." - Candace Bushnell Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, international best-selling author of ten books, including Is There Still Sex in the City, Sex and the City, Summer and the City, The Carrie Diaries, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle, Trading Up, Killing Monica and Four Blondes. Sex and the City, published in 1996, was the basis for the HBO hit series and two subsequent blockbuster movies. Lipstick Jungle became a popular television series on NBC, as did The Carrie Diaries on the CW. Is There Still Sex in the City is currently in development as a TV series with Paramount. Bushnell’s new book, Rules for Being a Girl, is out now. Connect with Candace on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Candace's book recommendation: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton   -- Enter to win our surprise giveaway with MOLARÁ! Ends Apr. 22. -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with SoulKu. Get 35% off your order with the code FEMINISTBC at www.soulku.com. We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our April charity is WEDO. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. Our May book of the month is GOOD TALK by Mira Jacob. Hear our interview with Mira here.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript74

"For too long our stories haven't been written and these women, who have accomplished so many things that we'll never know, were relegated to the shadows." - Samira Ahmed Samira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment and Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know. She was born in Bombay, India and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago in a house that smelled like fried onions, cardamom and potpourri. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she’s lived in Chicago, New York, and Kauai where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango. Connect with Samira on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Samira's book recommendations: Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob (FBC interview with Mira here!) The Grace Year by Kim Liggett -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our April charity is WEDO. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript73

"I'm so in awe of women who go out everyday in quite a volatile climate since 9/11 and are still showing up and not surrendering or relinquishing their hijab." - Sahar Mustafah Sahar Mustafah is a daughter of Palestinian immigrants, a complex inheritance she explores in her work. Her prize-winning short story collection Code of the West (2017) is followed by her first novel The Beauty of Your Face (2020). She writes and teaches outside of Chicago. Connect with Sahar on her website and Twitter. ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF THE BEAUTY OF YOUR FACE HERE. Sahar's book recommendations: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid LaRose by Louise Erdich -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our April charity is WEDO. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript72

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: BookRiot reading log - template here We Were Feminists Once: From RiotGrrrls to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler (FBC interview here) Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus (FBC interview here) Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West The Herd by Andrea Bartz (FBC interview forthcoming) Lobizona by Romina Garber (FBC interview forthcoming) Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fiction by Sheila O'Connor The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our April charity is WEDO. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop.   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/feministbookclub/ Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript71  

"There is hope. It's important not to lose hope. As long as you're alive, there is something you can do." - Margi Preus Margi Preus is New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Honor book Heart of a Samurai, the Minnesota Book Award winning West of the Moon, and several other books for young readers, including the Enchantment Lake Mystery Series, and two new titles in 2020, The Littlest Voyageur and Village of Scoundrels. Her books have landed on many “best of” lists, been honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, selected as an NPR Backseat Book Club pick, chosen for community reads, and translated into several languages.At home in Duluth, Minnesota, she likes to hike, ski, paddle, or sit quietly with a book in her lap. Connect with Margi on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. ENTER TO WIN A SIGNED COPY OF VILLAGE OF SCOUNDRELS HERE. Margi's book recommendation: Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our April charity is WEDO. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript70

"This is about Indians for Indians and it’s not try to teach about a culture or pander to anything. There are no lessons for white people in this book." - Erika T. Wurth Erika T. Wurth’s publications include two novels, Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend and You Who Enter Here, two collections of poetry and a collection of short stories, Buckskin Cocaine. A writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, she teaches creative writing at Western Illinois University and has been a guest writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals including Buzzfeed, Boulevard, The Writer’s Chronicle, Waxwing and The Kenyon Review. She will be faculty at Breadloaf in 2020, is a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Scholar, attended the Tin House Summer Workshop, and has been chosen as a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She is Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee and was raised outside of Denver. Connect with Erika on her website, Twitter, and Instagram. Erika's book recommendations: Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford Cherokee America by Margaret Verble Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our March charity is the National Collaboration for Women's History Sites. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop.   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript69  

"Is it going to harm feminism as a whole if you continue consuming R. Kelly albums? No, but it’s also an opportunity to interrogate how women consumers don’t have many options and so we see ourselves through the pop culture products that are overwhelming created by white men." - Andi Zeisler Andi Zeisler is the cofounder of Bitch Media. Her writing has appeared in Ms., Mother Jones, Salon, Bust, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post. She is the author of Feminism and Pop Culture and We Were Feminists Once and speaks frequently throughout the United States. Connect with Andi on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about Bitch Media at bitchmedia.org.   Andi's book recommendations: Followers by Megan Angelo (FBC interview here!) Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Sweet Girl Farm. Use code CHICKENLADY for 10% off your order until April 30, 2020. -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our March charity is the National Collaboration for Women's History Sites. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --- FBC ON TOUR! March 27: The Upside of Being Down book launch (Minneapolis, MN) March 28-29: Twin Cities Women's Expo at Rosedale Center (Roseville, MN) - postponed April 5: We Were Feminists Once discussion at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) May 9: Wordplay 2020 at The Loft (Minneapolis, MN) - virtual May 30-31: BookCon at Javits Center (NYC)   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript68  

"Even though this book is a comedy, there’s still social commentary in there." - Quan Barry Quan Barry is a poet and novelist. She’s the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Loose Strife, as well as the novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born. Barry teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs the Institute for Creative Writing. Her latest book is We Ride Upon Sticks. See where Quan will be on tour.   Quan's book recommendation: August Town by Kei Miller -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our March charity is the National Collaboration for Women's History Sites. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --- FBC ON TOUR!   March 7: FeMNist Night Market at the Palace Theatre (St. Paul, MN) March 27: The Upside of Being Down book launch (Minneapolis, MN) March 28-29: Twin Cities Women's Expo at Rosedale Center (Roseville, MN) April 5: We Were Feminists Once discussion at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) May 9: Wordplay 2020 at The Loft (Minneapolis, MN) May 30-31: BookCon at Javits Center (NYC)   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript67  

An informal solo series reviewing everything FBC founder Renee reads each month. Mentioned in this episode: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Farah Rocks Fifth Grade by Susan Muaddi Darraj (FBC interview here) A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib (FBC interview here) We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene Zimmerman Buckskin Cocaine by Erika T. Worth The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith   -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our March charity is the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --- FBC ON TOUR!   March 1: The Price of Salt discussion at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) March 7: FeMNist Night Market at the Palace Theatre (St. Paul, MN) March 27: The Upside of Being Down book launch (Minneapolis, MN) March 28-29: Twin Cities Women's Expo at Rosedale Center (Roseville, MN) May 9: Wordplay 2020 at The Loft (Minneapolis, MN) May 30-31: BookCon at Javits Center (NYC)   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript66  

"We don’t believe fashion and beauty are inherently bad but there’s so much more to women than just that. And that magazine didn’t exist yet." - Jessica Weiss Jessica Weiss is the Publisher and Co-founder of Trix, where she looks after the magazine’s commercial, editorial and brand viability, strategic partnerships, and overall business strategy. A full-time strategist for Google’s Executive Leadership Development team, she leverages her organizational psychology background to steep Trix’s editorial angle in research about media gender bias, stereotype threat, and the positive impact of visible role models on young girls and women. In her free time, she’ll take any opportunity to jump on an airplane, most recently to Uganda where she volunteered as a leadership development consultant to local nonprofits and hiked alongside wild mountain gorillas.   Connect with Trix on Instagram, Facebook, or on their website.   Jessica's book recommendation: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our March charity is the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --- FBC ON TOUR!   March 1: The Price of Salt discussion at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) March 7: FeMNist Night Market at the Palace Theatre (St. Paul, MN) March 27: The Upside of Being Down book launch (Minneapolis, MN) March 28-29: Twin Cities Women's Expo at Rosedale Center (Roseville, MN) May 9: Wordplay 2020 at The Loft (Minneapolis, MN) May 30-31: BookCon at Javits Center (NYC)   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript65  

"Look how people handle this very complicated tangled issue of morality and look at the extent they are willing to go to justify their actions. What I was trying to get to was that we’re all flawed." - Rajia Hassib Rajia Hassib was born and raised in Egypt and moved to the United States when she was twenty-three. Her first novel, In the Language of Miracles, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and received an honorable mention from the Arab American Book Award. Her second novel, A Pure Heart, was published by Viking (Penguin) in August of 2019. She holds an MA in creative writing from Marshall University, and she has written for The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker online, and Literary Hub. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia with her husband and two children.  CLICK HERE TO ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF A PURE HEART Connect with Rajia on Twitter, Instagram, on her website.   Rajia's book recommendations: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan My Past is a Foreign Country: A Muslim Feminist Finds Herself by Zeba Talkhani The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah A Curious Land by Susan Muaddi Darraj (listen to Susan's episode here!) Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our February charity is the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --- FBC ON TOUR!   March 1: The Price of Salt discussion at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) March 7: FeMNist Night Market at the Palace Theatre (St. Paul, MN) March 28-29: Twin Cities Women's Expo at Rosedale Center (Roseville, MN) May 9: Wordplay 2020 at The Loft (Minneapolis, MN) May 30-31: BookCon at Javits Center (NYC)   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript64  

"Young readers demand honesty from the writer. I have to make sure I’m talking to them in a direct and respectful way." - Susan Muaddi Darraj Susan Muaddi Darraj won an American Book Award for her novel-in-stories, A Curious Land. It also earned the 2016 Arab American Book Award,  won the AWP Grace Paley Prize, and was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. In 2018, she was named a 2018 Ford Fellow by USA Artists. Her debut children’s chapter book series, Farah Rocks (Capstone Books), is the first to feature a Palestinian American protagonist -- the smart, brave, and funny Farah Hajjar. The first book in the series is Farah Rocks Fifth Grade, which was published in January 2020. CLICK HERE TO ENTER TO WIN A SIGNED COPY OF FARAH ROCKS FIFTH GRADE! Connect with Susan on Twitter, Instagram, on her website.   Susan's book recommendation: Malawi's Sisters by Melanie S. Hatter -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our February charity is the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --- FBC ON TOUR!   March 1: The Price of Salt discussion at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) March 7: FeMNist Night Market at the Palace Theatre (St. Paul, MN) March 28-29: Twin Cities Women's Expo at Rosedale Center (Roseville, MN) May 9: Wordplay 2020 at The Loft (Minneapolis, MN) May 30-31: BookCon at Javits Center (NYC)   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript63  

"As an own voices story, I feel a degree of responsibility to get this right, to tell this story exactly right. And I’ve had to tell myself that I’m not responsible for all stories, I’m not the answer to all questions. I am telling this story as it has impacted me, my family, and my experience." - Isabel Ibañez Isabel Ibañez was born in Boca raton, Florida and is the proud daughter of two Bolivian immigrants. A true word nerd, she received her degree in creative writing and has been a Pitch Wars mentor for three years. Isabel is an avid movie-goer and loves hosting friends and family around the dinner table. She currently lives in Winter Park, Florida with her husband, their adorable dog, and a series collection of books. Woven in Moonlight is her debut novel and is published by Page Street.   Connect with Isabel on Twitter, Instagram, on her website.   Isabel's book recommendations: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Incendiary by Zoraida Córdova   Also mentioned in this episode: Send a Feminist Valentine from Feminist Book Club Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our February charity is the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. --- FBC ON TOUR!   March 1: The Price of Salt discussion at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) March 7: FeMNist Night Market at the Palace Theatre (St. Paul, MN) March 28-29: Twin Cities Women's Expo at Rosedale Center (Roseville, MN) May 9: Wordplay 2020 at The Loft (Minneapolis, MN) May 30-31: BookCon at Javits Center (NYC)   --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://bit.ly/FBCemailupdates   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript62  

"A lot of black girls are inheriting this strong black woman trope that when it comes time for vulnerability to be revealed, it’s uncomfortable." - Khristi Lauren Adams Khristi Lauren Adams is a speaker, author, youth advocate and ordained Baptist minister.  She is currently the Firestone Endowment Chaplain and an Instructor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Khristi also works as co-director of Diversity and Inclusion at the Hill School. She is the author of Parable of the Brown Girl, which highlights the cultural and spiritual truths that emerge from the lives of young black girls. It’s published by Fortress Press and will release in February 2020.   Connect with Khristi on Twitter, Instagram, on her website.   Khristi's book recommendation: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott   -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our February charity is the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. -- JOIN US IN MINNEAPOLIS! Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 2:00pm CST at The Irreverent Bookworm We'll be discussing The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya RSVP on Facebook -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with WeSparkle. Learn more at wesparkle.org.     --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dINNkn   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript60  

"As technology advances and as we can do more, some of those things may benefit us but we also create a situation and culture where people forget that their bodily autonomy doesn’t have to be bound up in data and science." - Megan Angelo Megan Angelo has written about television, film, women and pop culture, and motherhood for publications including The New York Times (where she helped launch city comedy coverage), Glamour (where she was a contributing editor and wrote a column on women and television), Elle, The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, and Slate. She is a mother of three and lives in Pennsylvania. Followers is her first novel.   Connect with Megan on Twitter, Instagram, on her website.   Megan's book recommendations: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, The Wives by Tarryn Fisher, and All Adults Here by Emma Straub   -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our February charity is the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. -- JOIN US IN MINNEAPOLIS! Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 2:00pm CST at The Irreverent Bookworm We'll be discussing The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya RSVP on Facebook -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Les Chocolateries Askanya: Grown in Haiti, made in Haiti, enjoyed everywhere. Get 20% off your order with code ASKCHOCO2020 at http://www.askanya.ht.     --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dINNkn   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript59  

"We tend to denigrate older people in our society, especially older women, and we act as if they’re these silly bitties who are cute, we can pat them on the head and chuckle with them. For me it’s the opposite. Older women are these mountains of strength, they’re who I look up to." - Marjan Kamali Marjan Kamali is the author of the novels The Stationery Shop and Together Tea. Born in Turkey to Iranian parents, she has lived in seven countries across five continents. Her first novel was a Massachusetts Book Award finalist, translated into several languages, and adapted for the stage. It follows a mother and daughter as they embark on a return journey to Iran. Her second novel, The Stationery Shop, hailed by The Wall Street Journal as a moving tale of lost love, was one of Newsweek’s Best Summer Reads and one of NPR’s best books of 2019.    Connect with Marjan on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and on her website.   Marjan's book recommendation: The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames   Also mentioned in this episode: I'm Writing You From Tehran by Delphine Minoui   -- We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our January charity is Welcoming America. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. -- JOIN US IN MINNEAPOLIS! Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 2:00pm CST at The Irreverent Bookworm We'll be discussing The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya RSVP on Facebook -- This episode is brought to you in collaboration with A Shop of Things, a curated collection of trendy goodies with a feminist bent. Learn more at ashopofthings.com     --   Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dINNkn   -- This podcast is produced on the native land of the Dakota, Sioux, and Anishinabewaki peoples.   Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript58  

"I couldn’t imagine how pressing charges would make me feel any better. In some ways, writing the book was my way of holding him accountable." - Jeannie Vanasco Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl and The Glass Eye. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, the New York Times Modern Love section, NewYorker.com, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she now lives in Baltimore and is an assistant professor of English at Towson University.   Connect with Jeannie on her website.   Jeannie's book recommendation: Mother Winter by Sophia Shalmiyev Listen to our episode with Sophia here!   We donate 5% of all our sales to a different feminist organization each month. Our January charity is Welcoming America. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. -- Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Goodreads: Renee // Feminist Book Club Box and Podcast Email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dINNkn   -- Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript57   Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop.