A few months ago, I assigned my feminist book club Women who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. We’d just read The Princess Saves Herself In This One (a…
Category: Feminism
Julie Kedzie, Badass Woman
For my most recent Badass Women blog interview, I recently spoke with Julie Kedzie, a retired American mixed martial artist, writer, and real badass woman.
WTF, Georgia? A heartbeat bill?
Alright, so not quite a year ago, I moved from the Atlanta, Georgia area to Raleigh, North Carolina. I left before Georgia passed a heartbeat bill, and I didn’t want to. I have good friends and family in Atlanta. I…
Book Review: Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber
So in May, I started a feminist book club. (How else am I supposed to hold myself accountable for reading all the great feminist books I want to read? Anyway, I needed people I could talk with about these feminist…
Where #MeToo Needs to Go Next
As the #metoo movement enters a blurry space about hugging and touchy-feely people, the movement needs to take a turn from blaming to teaching.
The Bechdel Test
Alright, so let’s talk about another feminist aspiration that someone who cares about women in fiction in any format–books, television, movies, etc.–should know about. It’s called The Bechdel Test.
Book Release! Won’t Let You Go, by Weslie Ashe
So Friday, April 12, 2019, my first “real” romance book launches. It’s called Won’t Let You Go, and it’s the first in my new series, the All Tied Up With String Romance series, which is basically a set of fluff books about couples who are tied together by some kind of string.
Book Review: Becoming, by Michelle Obama
Let me begin by saying if you have not yet read this book, you should. Or, better yet, go get the audio copy of Becoming, and let former First Lady Michelle Obama read it to you herself. It is worth all nineteen hours and three minutes…
Jen Kelchner, Badass Woman
For my second Badass Women blog interview, I spoke with Jen Kelchner, a Conscious Transformation & Strategy Leader who runs her own business, Leader 21, and is involved in several other projects (including a personal project she thinks of as “world domination”).
Real Badass Women: The Series
If you haven’t noticed by now reading this blog, my writing interests go a little beyond the love story. Don’t get me wrong: I love writing about love. But what should a badass heroine in a love story look like?