Books

Beauty Marked: “Made-Up” Explores the Addictive Power of Artifice

Photograph of the book cover for Made Up by Daphné B., featuring the silhouette of a femme body in pink

by Sophia Stewart

October 20, 2021 at 8:40am

“Sometimes, to feel at peace, all you need is for someone to tell you what to buy,” writes author Daphné B.

A Black woman with long hair parted to the side sits in a gray chair and reads.

BitchReads: 7 YA Books Feminists Should Read in March

by Rachel Charlene Lewis

March 9, 2021 at 3:30pm

Books can be healing. Read more »

Forsyth Harmon, a white woman with a black bob and bangs.

With “Justine,” Forsyth Harmon Charts Teen Queerness

by Rachel Charlene Lewis

March 9, 2021 at 10:51am

Justine may weigh very little, but it’s emotionally heavy. Read more »

Naima Coster, a light-skinned woman with short, black hair, and wearing a black t-shirt crosses her arms and smiles as she poses against a colorful wall

“What’s Mine and Yours” Complicates the School Segregation Story

by Evette Dionne

March 2, 2021 at 9:48am

Naima Coster’s prescient novel brings human faces to a broader social issue. Read more »

Morgan Rogers, a Black woman with shoulder-length hair, stands in front of a bookshelf wearing a purple sweater and glasses

“Honey Girl” Is about a Woman Coming Home to Herself

by Evette Dionne

February 23, 2021 at 10:20am

Honey Girl is not a romance novel. Read more »

“No One Is Talking about This” Brings Online Pangs to Real Life Tragedy

by s.e. smith

February 16, 2021 at 11:47am

No One Is Talking About This is a reflection of our ebbing and flowing need for connection. Read more »

Tessa Miller, a white woman with short blond hair, poses in a black and white photo with her small, brown dog

“What Doesn’t Kill You” Tells the Gut-Churning Truth about Chronic Illness

by Jordan Davidson

February 10, 2021 at 10:17am

Crohn’s disease is unpredictable, cruel, and gross. There’s no way around that. Read more »

In “We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire,” Women’s History is Lifesaving

by Ashley Bardhan

February 10, 2021 at 9:31am

The novel is a meditation on the power of uncovering past heroines. Read more »

A Black man and woman at work. The woman is teaching the man how to do something on a computer screen.

In “Work Won’t Love You Back,” Sarah Jaffe Kills the Dream Job

by Mary Retta

January 26, 2021 at 11:05am

No one should have to earn the right to financial security through labor. Read more »

A white woman with blond chin length hair wears red lipstick and a silky pink blouse.

Gabrielle Korn Questions the “Feminist Utopia” of Women’s Media

by Rachel Charlene Lewis

January 12, 2021 at 10:06am

“There needs to be a radical rewriting of what we expect the internet to give us.” Read more »

A bowl of beans next to the phrase "performative parenting."

Very Online: Bean Dad Continues a Tradition of Performative Parenting

by Rachel Charlene Lewis

January 8, 2021 at 2:09pm

From Facebook to Twitter and beyond, parents dunk on their own children online. Read more »

Best of Bitch

Demanding the Impossible: Walidah Imarisha Talks About Science Fiction and Social Change

by Kristian Williams

April 13, 2015 at 2:23pm

Before she was a poet, journalist, documentary filmmaker, anti-prison activist, and college instructor, Walidah Imarisha was fascinated... Read more »

A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

by Victoria Law

November 17, 2014 at 5:07pm

Nearly every Saturday morning, feminists of color hold Twitter discussions taking a deeper look at issues, such as gender violence. It’s the... Read more »

Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens

by Zetta Elliott

December 17, 2013 at 3:19pm

What happens when two great black women fiction writers get together to talk about race in young adult literature? That's exactly what happens... Read more »