Abortion Ban: The Trending Anti-Women Human Rights Violation
I don’t want to be here I hate that I’m writing this. I hate that this is happening and that it needs to be addressed. As you’ve probably seen and heard, the American state of…
Category: Feminism
10 of my Favourite Feminist Quotes
Y’all. I love quotes. I’ve done like, four or five quotes posts for Book Riot in the last year. Words have so much power. When they are strung together to say something beautiful and/or important in…
The Friday Feminist Five
Welcome to The Friday Feminist Five. Here you’ll find links to articles and news around the web that piqued our interest and come from a feminist perspective. An new Sci-Fi anthology highlights 25 stories by…
Instead of Baby It’s Cold Outside, Can We Talk About Consent?
Look folx. I know there are seventy gillion think pieces about everyone’s favourite Christmas song, Baby It’s Cold Outside. But this isn’t really that. People love to debate about otherwise insignificant things and leave the…
Well, That Escalated Quickly by Franchesca Ramsey: Review
Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist by Franchesca Ramsey Published May 22nd, 2018 by Grand Central Publishing Audiobook I’m not going to lie. I didn’t know who Franchesca Ramsey was…
10 of Our Favourite Feminist News and Culture Websites
In this age of “fake news” and the constant barrage of sexist, racist, homophobic popular news coverage, it’s important to be able to look at what’s going on in the world from a feminist perspective.…
Round Up of Newsy Links
Gender-based violence has been declared a national crisis is Puerto Rico via Feministing. “According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), natural disasters tend to exacerbate violence against women and girls, multiplying threats to…
Newsy Links
Say Her Name: Nia Wilson. Her murder cannot be removed from the context of gender and race. Via ThinkProgress. Serena Williams’ constant drug testing for tennis is fuelled by discrimination. Via Women in the World. “We must…
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Feminist Non-Fiction Paperback, 348 pages Published September 5th 1991 by Vintage (first published 1990) There was a lot to this book; definitely…
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The Power by Naomi Alderman Dystopian Fiction Hardcover, 341 pages Published October 27th 2017 by Viking The Power by Naomi Alderman is an incredible and important read. It’s by far one of the best books I’ve read.…
MeToo and Rampant Toxic Masculinity
As of May 4, another literary male was taken down by the #MeToo reckoning. Furthermore, this year’s Nobel Prize for literature has been pushed until next year. A lot of people have a lot of…
What I’ve Been Reading and Loving Online
Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading a lot of interesting articles around the internet. These are the ones that stood out to me and I wanted to them share with you! Katie discusses…
What I’ve Been Reading Online This week
Ten ways to maintain your mental health in your 20s via The Everygirl. “Representation matters and recognition that it matters is giving us LIFE and making our book nerd hearts swell with pride.” 18 YA…
Asking For It by Louise O’Neill #SAAM
Asking For It by Louise O’Neill Young Adult Fiction Paperback, 346 pages Published September 3rd 2015 by Quercus UK Asking For It starts at the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O’Donovan…
Young Adult Books About Sexual Assault #SAAM
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. To highlight the widespread nature of this issue and our need to talk about it, I’ve compiled a list of some of my favourite young adult books…