Books

A New Fairy Tale: “One to Watch” Imagines a Fat Bachelorette

Kate Stayman-London, a white woman with short, brown hair, looks at the camera over her shoulder
by Evette Dionne
August 7, 2020 at 9:00am
Kate Stayman-London beautifully pulls back the curtain on what fat women in particular endure, not only when attempting to find love, but also in simply existing.
Author Morgan Parker, who is a Black woman, wears a black blazer, white shirt, and an orange scarf. She leans on her hand and looks at the camera.

A Depressed Black Teen Takes Center Stage in Morgan Parker’s YA Debut

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
October 21, 2019 at 4:45pm
“It’s unfair to make a book that is only the dark because we know that that’s just not how life happens.” Read more »

Backtalk: So Burning Books is Back?

by Amy Lam
October 17, 2019 at 6:00pm
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into the recent campus conflict when white students with hurt feelings thought it’d be a good idea to burn books written by a visiting author. Read more »
Leah Vernon, a fat Muslim woman, wearing a navy blue hat, black head scarf, yellow mascara, blue lipstick, against a red wall

Leah Vernon Won’t Be Hemmed in by the Fashion Industry

by Evette Dionne
October 15, 2019 at 9:00am
The fat, Black, Muslim, blogger speaks truth to power on her Instagram account, in her new book, and in this raw, honest interview. Read more »
Chanel Miller, a mixed-race woman, stands in front of a black and white wall background

Victims Owe Us Nothing: Chanel Miller Reclaims Her Story and Identity in “Know My Name”

by Caroline Reilly
October 9, 2019 at 1:04pm
Chanel Miller’s weaving of her day-to-day life with the lingering trauma of her assault illustrates the singular way sexual-assault victims are asked to move through the world. Read more »
a photo of author Jeannie Vanasco, a white woman with brown hair smiling at the camera

Jeannie Vanasco on Processing Rape by Writing About It

by Melissa Faliveno
October 9, 2019 at 11:03am
“The thing I felt most afraid of was publishing this and having feminists read it and be disappointed in me.” Read more »
Unpregnant authors Ted Caplan, left, and Jenni Hendricks

“Unpregnant” Offers a Radical Normalization of Abortion and Reproductive Health

by Mary Retta
October 3, 2019 at 12:29pm
Even in a time where reproductive choice is in terrifying peril, it’s still possible to feel empowered in our choices­­—including the choice to laugh. Read more »
a collage of Asian women traveling throughout the world

New Canon: A Roundtable about Travel Writing without the Other

by Bani Amor
October 3, 2019 at 9:53am
Literature about traveling and adventure has a long history of evoking an Orientalist imaginary of Asia as perpetually exotic and dominable. Read more »
a Black woman with an afro reads a book while sitting on a window sill

BitchReads: 13 Nonfiction Books Feminists Should Read this September

by Evette Dionne
September 11, 2019 at 9:35am
There is so much to read in so little time, which is one of the myriad reasons I love curating the BitchReads list on a (semi)-regular basis. Read more »
"Girls and Their Cats" author BriAnne Wills, a white woman with dark hair, holds her cat, Tuck. There is a large plant in the background.

“Girls and Their Cats” and The Future of Cat Ladies

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 10, 2019 at 12:20pm
“I definitely think that the qualities people don’t like in cats are the same qualities that men especially don’t particularly like in women: that we’re independent, that we don’t need them.” Read more »
Donna Freitas, a white woman professor with long, black hair, smiles at the camera

Close to Home: Donna Freitas on the Stalking Professor Who Irrevocably Changed Her Life

by Evette Dionne
September 4, 2019 at 10:49am
“It’s just a relief not to be alone with it anymore.” Read more »

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