Books

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

A Black man and woman at work. The woman is teaching the man how to do something on a computer screen.
by Mary Retta
January 26, 2021 at 11:05am
No one should have to earn the right to financial security through labor. 
Leslie Gray Streeter, a Black woman with short, brown hair, smiles at the camera while posed against a green background

Laugh at My Pain: Finding the Humor in Being a “Black Widow”

by Evette Dionne
April 7, 2020 at 10:37am
Grief is a thing that will live, in some way, in our DNA and our body and be triggered by the wrong song or the wrong turn down the street where you see someone that looks like the person you lost. Read more »
An IV bag hangs on a metal pole. There is an eerie blue cast to the photo.

Staying Soft: Megan Giddings Explores the Hypervigilance of Black Women in “Lakewood”

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
April 3, 2020 at 10:26am
The participants—nearly all people of color—break bones and lose teeth to help advance the future of science and healthcare. Read more »
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 »

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Rewriting the Future: Using Science Fiction to Re-Envision Justice

by Walidah Imarisha
Spring 2015 • Law & Order
Our justice movements desperately need science fiction. Read more »

Know & Tell: The Literary Renaissance of Trans Women Writers

by Katherine Cross
Winter 2015 • (Re)Vision
For so long, the people who wrote about us were not us. Finally, that is beginning to change. 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 »

Eat, Pray, Spend: Priv-Lit and the New, Enlightened American Dream

Elizabeth Gilbert, a white woman wearing a navy blue jumpsuit, leans forward and holds hand with and Oprah Winfrey, a Black woman wearing a gray cardigan and jeans
by Joshunda Sanders
Summer 2010 • Action
Even as reports on joblessness, economic recovery, and home foreclosures suggest that no one is immune to risk during this recession, the popularity of women’s wellness media has persisted and, indeed, grown stronger.  Read more »