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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.

    We Want to Feel a Part of Something Bigger

    We Want to Feel a Part of Something Bigger

    Today’s episode is all about feeling a part of something, whether that’s a family lineage or a community of gamers. We all want to feel like we belong to something more, and our contributors today take that feeling in two totally different (but somehow complementary?) directions.
     
    Intuition and Lineage with Chanel Cleeton (0:17)
    Ashley speaks with Chanel Cleeton, author of The House on Biscayne Bay. This conversation includes how Chanel wrote the main characters to grow with intuition, the unique world-building in this story, and the influence of her own family’s history on the book.
     
    Women in TTRPGs (11:44)
    Then listen in as Nox shares her experiences participating in tabletop role-playing games (aka TTRPGs) and how the new book The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall felt so familiar to her own experiences in this community.
     
     
    Books mentioned in this episode:
    The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton
    The No-Girlfriend Rule by Christen Randall
     
    Also mentioned:
    Girls Run These Worlds
    Hoards of Tales



    Support this episode’s guest and hosts:
    Follow Chanel Cleeton: Instagram 
    Follow Ashley: Instagram // Twitter // Website
    Follow Nox: Instagram // Twitter // TikTok




    Today’s episode is sponsored by Broadleaf Books. Pre-order your copy of We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men, edited by Angela P. Dodson today!
     
    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.

    • 21 min
    A Couple of Books that Disappointed and Delighted Us

    A Couple of Books that Disappointed and Delighted Us

    Not every book is a slam dunk, but we’re going to discuss them anyways. However, when a book is good, it’s really good. In this two-part episode, you’ll hear Jordy, Mariquita, and Nox discuss a book that wasn’t quite their cup of tea as well as a glowing review from Renee of a recent release. 
     
    Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan mini book club discussion (01:56)
    First up, Jordy, Mariquita, and Nox sit down to discuss the romance (with a sprinkling of fantasy) book, Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan. This conversation dives into the believability of the romance between the two main characters, can our protagonist really smell a curse, and what’s with curse-breaking sex? 



    Review: Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet (19:38)
    Then listen in as Renee shares her thoughts on a recently released book that’s not getting nearly the attention it deserves. Say Hello to My Little Friend is (hilariously and accurately) described as Moby Dick meets Scarface. Renee shares why she loved it, how it’s feminist, and a hyper-specific niche it fits into.
     
     
    Books mentioned in this episode:
    Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan
    The Roommate by Rosie Danan
    Raiders of the Lost Heart by Jo Segura 
    Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet
    Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
    Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt




    Support this episode’s hosts:
    Follow Mariquita: Instagram 
    Follow Nox: Instagram // Twitter // TikTok
    Follow Jordy: Instagram // TikTok 
    Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph




    Today’s episode is sponsored by Broadleaf Books. Order your copy of Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell by Karen Walrond today!
    Today’s episode is also sponsored by Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy. Get your copy today!
     
    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.
     

    • 28 min
    Two New Releases That Resonated with Mariquita & Nox

    Two New Releases That Resonated with Mariquita & Nox

    In this double feature, we’re sharing a moving author interview as well as a review of an important non-fiction book.
     
    Family Dynamics, Women’s Rage, and Korean-American Womanhood with Gina Chung (01:54)
    First up, Mariquita interviews author Gina Chung about her new collection of short stories, Green Frog. Along the way they discuss how women’s rage is acceptable only within certain parameters and never for women of color, how stereotypes of Asian women stifle full expression, and just what we owe our parents (and what they owe us).
     
    Review: Against Technoableism by Ashlew Shew (26:16)
    Then listen in as Nox (and her sweet kitty Hazel!) shares her thoughts on the book Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew. This review will shed light on her opinions as a disabled person of not just this book but also the world, and how we can all do better for disabled people.
     
     
    Books mentioned in this episode:
    Sea Change by Gina Chung
    Green Frog by Gina Chung
    Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
    My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny



    Support this episode’s hosts and guest:
    Follow Mariquita: Instagram 
    Follow Gina Chung: Instagram // Website // Twitter
    Follow Nox: Instagram // Twitter // TikTok



    Today’s episode is sponsored by Broadleaf Books. Order your copy of Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education by Jasmine L. Harris today!
    Today’s episode is also sponsored by Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy. Get your copy today!
     
    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.
     

    • 37 min
    Who Should Win Best Adapted Screenplay?

    Who Should Win Best Adapted Screenplay?

     
    Do you love books? Do you love movies? Do you love to celebrate and/or complain about book-to-movie adaptations? This is the episode for you!
     
    In anticipation of the 96th Academy Awards, Sally watched all of the nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay… and then read all the books they were adapted from. She’ll never get those 60+ hours of her life back, but she’s here to share the books worth reading, the movies worth watching, and her pick for who should win Best Adapted Screenplay.
     
    Books Mentioned:
    American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    Erasure by Percival Everett
    Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
    The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
    The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan




    Support this episode’s hosts
    Follow Sally: Instagram // The StoryGraph
     
    Today’s episode is sponsored by Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy. Get your copy today!
     
    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.

    • 29 min
    Graphic Novels & Black Feminists

    Graphic Novels & Black Feminists

    Four Graphic Novels for 2024 (0:22)
    Looking for a graphic novel to pick up? In this segment Rah shares four graphic novels that are making their way onto shelves in 2024. 
     
    Recommended in this segment: 
    Freshman Year by Sarah Mai
    Tender by Beth Hetland
    Full of Myself by Siobhán Gallagher
    Mothballs by Sole Otero 



    Black Feminists Who Helped Me Unlearn My White Feminism (8:42)
    As a white woman raised in a white community, Renee’s feminism wasn’t very intersectional until she got to grad school. In this segment, she shares some of the key Black feminist writers who helped her unlearn her white feminism.
     
    Recommended in this segment:
    Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
    Ain’t I A Woman by bell hooks
    Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
    Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
    This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins
    Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
    Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
    We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
    Unapologetic by Charlene A. Carruthers
    White Feminism by Koa Beck
    Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
    Do Better by Rachel Ricketts
    Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
     
    Podcast episodes mentioned:
    Morgan Jerkins + Renee
    Morgan Jerkins + Natalia
    Koa Beck + Renee
    Rachel Ricketts + Renee



    Support this episode’s hosts
    Follow Rah: Instagram // TikTok // The StoryGraph
    Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph
     
    Today’s episode is sponsored by Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy, out March 12 from Gillian Flynn Books. Get your copy today!
     
    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.
     

    • 25 min
    How to Live Free in a Dangerous World with Shayla Lawson

    How to Live Free in a Dangerous World with Shayla Lawson

    Tayler (she/her) sits down with Shayla Lawson (they/them), author of the new book How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir. Tune in as Shayla talks about  Blackness as nonbinary, shares an argument for lowercasing the b in Black, and so much more on the African Diaspora.
     
    Get a copy of How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir by Shayla Lawson here! 
     
    Check out Shayla’s other books:
    This is Major:  Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope (2020)
    I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean (2018) 



    Books that Shayla is reading:
    Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin 
    Take Care of Yourself by Sophie Calle 



    Support our hosts & guests:
    Follow Shayla - Substack | Instagram
    Follow Tayler: Twitter | Instagram | TikTok



    Beyond the Box: Our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday
     
    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, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
79 Ratings

79 Ratings

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I’m a feminist, new author who left cult. I love to be a guest.

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