Books
Crushed Blackademics: The Case for Black Women to Ditch Academia
Edith Vane suffers the whips and scorns of academia in a world where tenure is an illusion.
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“Abandon Me” Highlights How Abuse Hides In Queer Relationships
Abandon Me proves unequivocally that there must be room in the literary canon for the complexity of women’s stories on erotic fixation and loss.
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Sex Workers Deserve Better: Christine Pelisek Explains How The Grim Sleeper’s Victims Were Overlooked for 25 Years
The press mainly ignores street girls getting killed.
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Baby Fever : “The Art of Waiting” Captures the Pain of Infertility
Belle Boggs handles infertility through a nuanced and empathetic lens that’s attuned to issues of social justice.
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BitchReads: 13 Books You Should Read In July
There’s a memoir that’s funny as hell, a deep dive into an iconic comic book character, and even a fantasy.
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Ruling the Seas: “Pirate Women” Celebrates the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers History Has Left Behind
The few women pirates we know are briefly sketched side characters in male-driven stories.
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Transcending Genre: “The Boss” Brings Womanism To Urban Literature
The book seems to be about sexy, scantily clad women, but the core theme is wealth redistribution.
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Channeling Audre: Janet Mock Opens Up About Her Memoir, Sex Work, and Being An Icon
Janet Mock is no longer offering a 101 master class on trans identity.
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Disturbing the Priest: 5 Passages from “Priestdaddy” That Had Me Rolling in the Pews
Patricia Lockwood’s memoir Priestdaddy is the funniest book I have read this year.
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Roxane Gay’s “Hunger” Will Satiate You: On Fat, Trauma, and the World of Longing
Roxane Gay’s newest work, Hunger, a memoir of her body, is told in her signature style: boldly vulnerable.
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