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: Reading
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…
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 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…
Book Review: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, by Mona Awad
Weslie Ashe reviews Mona Awad’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. Spoiler alert: the protagonist is never really happy.