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  • Feminist Book Club is the premier online hub for intersectional readers and anyone who wants to infuse their bookshelves with social justice. We encourage resistance through reading with our blog, podcast, events, and our signature monthly subscription box.
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  • Black Women in Genre Fiction

    Black Women in Genre Fiction
    Apr 30 2024

    Here at FBC, we wanna diversify your bookshelf in all sorts of ways and we’re here to remind you that reading Black stories doesn’t just mean reading literary fiction about pain or suffering. Genre fiction, or popular fiction that falls into certain predictable categories, is full of incredible Black women writing at the tops of their games. In this episode, we recommend two in particular, one romance author and one thriller author.

    Renee’s Reading Corner: A Love Song for Ricki Wilde (1:47)

    The hill Renee will die on is that fans of Emily Henry need to be reading Tia Williams’ books. In this segment, she compares Henry and Williams to make a case for more white women to read Tia Williams’ romances, specifically her newest book A Love Song for Ricki Wilde.

    While We Were Burning and Messy Black Women (8:48)

    Tayler has a chat with Sara Koffi, author of the novel While We Were Burning, a domestic thriller. Tayler and Sara chat about unlikeable Black women, how that shows up in Sara’s book, some of their favorite unlikeable Black women in pop culture, and who gets to tell those stories.

    Books/Resources Mentioned:

    Funny Story by Emily Henry

    A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

    Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

    While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi

    Nightwatching by Tracy Sierra

    Support this episode’s hosts and guests:

    Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph

    Follow Tayler: X // Instagram // TikTok

    Follow Sara Koffi: Instagram // X // Website



    Today’s episode is sponsored by Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannan and Moral Code by Lois and Russ Melbourne. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media.

    Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here.

    Check out our online community here!

    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

    Original music by @iam.onyxrose


    Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.
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    25 mins
  • Feminist Books to Keep Us Company

    Feminist Books to Keep Us Company
    Apr 23 2024
    We believe good books help us feel a little less alone, whether that’s a book that reassures us that we’re not the only ones falling for logical fallacies or it’s a picturesque audiobook experience that complements the landscape around us. Join Renee for a review of The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell then stick around to hear Jordy discuss the books she listened to, the bookstores she visited, and the books she purchased on her cross-country roadtrip. Renee’s Reading Corner: The Age of Magical Overthinking (1:48) Renee is a huge fan of Amanda Montell’s work and relates to it on a deep level. In this review of Montell’s latest book, The Age of Magical Overthinking, Renee shares what this book does really really well and where it falls short. Cross Country Bookish Endeavors (7:30) Jordy sits down to discuss her experience driving cross-country from San Francisco, California to Lyme, Connecticut. Along the way she shares about the bookstores she stopped at, the books she picked up, and the audiobooks that kept her company on the journey. Books/Resources Mentioned: The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming American Mermaid by Julia Langbein Siren Queen by Nghi Vo Witches: The Transformative Power of Women Working Together by Sam George-Allen Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban The Secrets of Hartwood Hall by Katie Lumsden Something Wilder by Christina Lauren Red String Theory by Lauren Kung Jessen Butcher & Blackbird by Brynn Weaver Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea Book Passage (San Francisco, CA) City Light Books (San Francisco, CA) Sundance Books and Music (Reno, NV) King’s English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT) Reading in Public (West Des Moines, IO) Brain Lair Books (South Bend, IN) RJ Julia Booksellers (Madison, CT) Support this episode’s hosts Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph Follow Jordy: Instagram Today’s episode is sponsored by Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannan and Moral Code by Lois and Russ Melbourne. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media. Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here. Check out our online community here! This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people. Original music by @iam.onyxrose Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.
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    40 mins
  • How to Read Outside Your Comfort Zone

    How to Read Outside Your Comfort Zone
    Apr 16 2024
    We’re big fans of getting uncomfortable with your reading life, whether that be reading about a topic that has been misunderstood for most of history or reading translated literature in a whole new format. In this episode, our contributors share two ways to get a little outside your comfort zone when it comes to reading. Reframing and Reclaiming: Using Horror to Come into Power (1:47) Mariquita talks with V. Castro about her latest book, Immortal Pleasures, which reframes the life of La Malinche, the Nahua woman who translated for Cortes. Their discussion covers the role of horror in holding a mirror to the atrocities carried out against indigenous people and people of color, reclaiming the stories of women that heretofore had only been told by their abusers, and how telling our own stories can give us power. CW include rape, sexual content, and sexual violence Manga Mania (18:17) Jordy, Rah, and Mhairie sit down to discuss their varying degrees of love and experience when it comes to all things manga and anime. In this discussion, they delve into a brief history of manga - including an overview of the genres, how they each got into manga, and a bookish discussion on the first volume of the Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama. Books/Resources Mentioned: Immortal Pleasures by V. Castro The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama Creepy Cat by Cotton Valent Ghostly Things by Ushio Shirotori My Cat is Such a Weirdo by Tamako Tamagoyama Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotouge. InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi Full Metal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa Fruit Baskets by Natsuki Takaya Happy Marriage by Maki Enjōji How Manga Took Over American Bookshelves - from It’s Lit! on PBS A Brief History of Manga by Merri Kiwi Support this episode’s guest and hosts: Follow V. Castro: Instagram // TikTok // Website // Twitter Follow Mariquita: Instagram // Threads Follow Jordy: Instagram // TikTok Follow Rah: Instagram // TikTok // The StoryGraph Follow Mhairie: Instagram Today’s episode is sponsored by Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannan and Moral Code by Lois and Russ Melbourne. Thank you to our sponsors for supporting independent feminist media. Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here. Check out our online community here! This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people. Original music by @iam.onyxrose Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.
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    49 mins
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