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 white plus-size woman reading on couch with a dog

BitchReads: 13 Books Feminists Should Read in March

by Evette Dionne
March 24, 2020 at 10:25am
Reading can be such a relief in such strenuous times. Read more »
Bonnie Ruberg, a white professor with short, red hair, and wearing an ocean blue blazer, sits on a couch with a game controller in her hand

Playing for Freedom: Welcome to the Queer Gaming Revolution

by Naseem Jamnia
March 19, 2020 at 10:49am
The queer games avant-garde is a rising tide of indie games being developed by, about, and often for LGBTQ people. Read more »
Stephanie Wrobel, a thin, white woman with short blond hair, poses in front of a barn door

Stephanie Wrobel on Writing a Monstrous Mother

by Raquel Diaz
March 16, 2020 at 12:17pm
We have less sympathy for perpetrators when their illness hurts someone else.  Read more »
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, a Black woman, wears gold hoops and dark red lipstick and looks at the camera. Her hair is in long braids and she wears a black sweater.

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Is Widening Our Understanding of Street Harassment

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
March 12, 2020 at 9:38am
Women have been talking about our experiences with every form of sexual violence since the dawn of time. Read more »
Amanda Leduc, a white woman with wavy dark brown hair, looks at the camera. She has a soft smile and appears to be outdoors.

Amanda Leduc and Fantasy Authors Challenge the Trope of “Broken” Disabled People

by Alaina Leary
March 9, 2020 at 1:54pm
Fairy tales and their contemporary counterparts—superhero tales, science fiction, fantasy—shape our collective ideas about what it means to be powerful and beautiful.  Read more »
Three young adult novels collaged together featuring a variety of characters.

Escapist Young Adult Novels Offer a Breath of Fresh Air in the Current Political Climate

by Nicole Brinkley
March 4, 2020 at 10:19am
These stories are escapist fiction—literature that doesn’t explicitly focus on the social and political issues in our real world, allowing the reader to temporarily forget about them and fall into the story. Read more »
Rachel Vorona Cote, author of "Too Much," sits with her hands on her chin wearing a black shirt and glasses.

Corseted Up: Victorian Ideals Are Still Binding up Women

by Rachel Klein
February 24, 2020 at 6:33am
A woman who meets the world with intensity is a woman who endures lashes of shame and disapproval. Read more »
a collage of two books: Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun and In Our Prime by Susan J. Douglas

Women of a Certain Rage: Two New Books Tackle Getting Older—and More Pissed Off

by Andi Zeisler
February 13, 2020 at 1:22pm
 Like aging itself, Why We Can’t Sleep and In Our Prime are both reflective and daunting. Read more »
Judy Blume, a white author wearing a white suit, sits on a rooftop and smiles at the camera

Judged Judy: Judy Blume’s 40 Years Old Fight to Tell the Truth about Sex, Religion, and Turtles

by Joanna Miller
February 12, 2020 at 4:06pm
For refusing to condescend to her readers in the face of physical harassment and threats of nonpublication, Blume has been, regardless of whether it was her intention, a protector of intellectual freedom and the First Amendment. Read more »
Erin Khar, a white woman with black hair and brown eyes, stands against a brick wall. She wears a black coat and has a soft smile.

Cleaned Up: “Strung Out” Complicates the Conversation about Women and Opioid Addiction

by Elizabeth Lothian
February 11, 2020 at 9:00am
We can only help people if they’re alive; the only bottom you can’t recover from is death. Read more »

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Janet Mock, a transgender Hawaiian woman with curly, brown hair, smiles
by Tina Vasquez
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A Look at How Media Writes Women of Color

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by Walidah Imarisha
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Our justice movements desperately need science fiction. Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

by Katherine Cross
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For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. Read more »