Books

BitchReads: 13 Books Feminists Should Read in October

by Rosa Cartagena

October 1, 2021 at 12:29pm

Cozy up with a new title this month. Read more »

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Soul Survivor: Tarana Burke's "Unbound" Brings #MeToo Back to Its Roots

by Nicole Froio

September 22, 2021 at 11:55am

Burke continues a tradition of Black feminist thought that centers Black girls and women. Read more »

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Love Is the Drug: “Crazy For You” Puts a Societal Lens on Love and Sex Addiction

by Oliver Haug

September 21, 2021 at 12:59pm

Reframing the way we think about love and sex can change our lives. Read more »

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Socialist Anxiety: Sally Rooney’s New Novel Reveals an Author Trapped By Herself

by Nylah Burton

September 10, 2021 at 3:59pm

The insistent classification of Rooney’s work as Marxist has long felt like a stretch. Read more »

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BitchReads: 11 Books Feminists Should Read in September

by Evette Dionne

September 1, 2021 at 12:03pm

Greet fall with these upcoming titles. Read more »

a collage of two book covers: How We Fall Apart, a photo of an Asian teenage girl with black hair split up into various pieces and A Lesson in Vengeance, a black book cover with an illustration of purple flowers and cobwebs

Academia Is Even Darker than We Thought

by Alaina Leary

August 31, 2021 at 11:24am

Katie Zhao and Victoria Lee are shaping the canon of dark academia. Read more »

Made in China, a yellow book cover that features a photo of rusty scissors, is cropped against a photo of Anna Qu, a thin, Chinese woman with a black bob

Loose Threads: Anna Qu Wants Us to Know the Truth About Garment Factories

by Hannah Bae

August 26, 2021 at 1:20pm

Anna Qu relied on her powers of observation to survive a punishing home environment. Read more »

Nichole Perkins, a brown-skinned Black woman with long brown braids, poses in a blue shirt against an outdoors background

Soft Power: Nichole Perkins Redesigns the Politics of Desire

by Vanessa Willoughby

August 23, 2021 at 9:00am

People still have a hard time recognizing that Black women need to be protected. Read more »

Deborah Copaken, author of Ladyparts, is a white woman with long, brown hair

Written On the Body: For Deborah Copaken, Biology Is a Battlefield

by Andi Zeisler

August 6, 2021 at 10:43am

She is using her body as a megaphone. Read more »

Emilly Prado, a light-skinned Latinx woman with long, brown hair, poses in a black dress and doorknocker earrings against an orange background

Emilly Prado Closes the Coffin on Her Old Life

by Michelle Ruiz Keil

August 5, 2021 at 12:17pm

Everybody’s sense of memory changes over time. Read more »

Best of Bitch

Mock & Awe: Janet Mock on Truth-Telling, Community Building, and Writing the Story She Had Been Waiting for Her Whole Life

Janet Mock, a transgender Hawaiian woman with curly, brown hair, smiles

by Tina Vasquez

Spring 2014 • Maps & Legends

“Redefining Realness” is written with astounding honesty and heart. Read more »

Hot Under the Bonnet: The Cooptation of Amish Culture in Mass-Market Fiction

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by Audrey deCoursey

Spring 2014 • Maps & Legends

Dubbed “Amish romance novels,” “Amish fiction,” or the more waggish “bonnet rippers,” these novels just one entry point into the varying images of Amish communities in U.S. popular culture. 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 »