Feminist Book Club: The Podcast

In honor of Becca Rea-Tucker’s new cookbook BAKING BY FEEL, Renee sits down with @thesweetfeminist herself and best friend/mobile bakery owner Jeney Christensen. The three of them discuss baking as an outlet to process emotions (including feminist rage), how baking can be subversive, and how working in the kitchen can help us accept our imperfections.

Books mentioned:

Baking by Feel: Recipes to Sort Out Your Emotions (Whatever They Are Today!) by Becca Rea-Tucker

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This episode was edited by Angel Akurienne and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

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Have you ever gone back to your required reading from high school? Sally decided to do just that by reading a book she loved, a book she hated, and a book she thought was fine. Did she have taste then? Has she grown as a reader... or devolved?

Then in the second segment, Niba sits down with Dr. Poetry, the Reproductive Health Specialist, to talk about black healthcare inequities in america. They also speak about her work in Ghana and how she maintains balance in this space.

Books mentioned by Sally:

FBC Podcast Segment: Why I Reread Books

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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Follow Sally: Instagram // The StoryGraph

Follow Dr. Poetry: Instagram // Twitter

Follow Niba: Instagram // Twitter // TikTok // YouTube // Website

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This episode was edited by Niba and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

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This episode includes back to back author interviews!

First up, Mariquita talks with poet Maggie Smith about the pain of loss, the recovery of self, and her new memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

Books mentioned by Mariquita & Maggie Smith:

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith

Goldenrod by Maggie Smith

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith

Good Bones by Maggie Smith

The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison by Maggie Smith

Lamp of the Body by Maggie Smith

In the second part of this episode, Ashley interviews Cheryl A. Head, author of Time’s Undoing. They talk about honoring elders, enjoying Southern Hospitality with the fraught history of racism, amplifying the Black press and journalism, and writing this story that was inspired by her family.

Book content warning: racial slur, racism, kidnapping, murder

Books and film mentioned by Ashley and Cheryl A. Head:

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabelle Wilkerson

Eye On The Struggle by James McGrath Morris

The Defender by Ethan Michaeli

Just Mercy (2019)

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Maggie: Instagram // Twitter // Website

Follow Mariquita: Instagram

Follow Cheryl A. Head: Website // Instagram // Twitter

Follow Ashley: Instagram // Twitter // Website

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This episode was edited by Niba and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

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This podcast episode includes not just one, but TWO author interviews that let us peek behind the scenes of the books that we love

Mariquita sits down with Rebecca Makkai for a discussion about Murder, Mystery, and Feminism! They discuss Rebecca's recenlty released novel, I Have Some Questions for You, a literary feminist boarding school murder mystery. They touch on the ethics of true crime, the inequity and dehumanization of the carceral system, the #metoo movement, and whose lives have value (all of which are woven into this compelling new novel).

Books mentioned written by Rebecca Makkai:

I Have Some Questions for You

The Great Believers

The Borrower

The Hundred Year House

Music for Wartime

Who else is getting hyped for the Apple TV adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry?! In preparation for the show, Renee chats with author Bonnie Garmus to discuss why this book resonated with so many, the success of the book, and the adaptation itself. Bonnie and Renee also discover they are both greyhound parents mid-chat, which came as a fun surprise.

Books mentioned by Renee and Bonnie Garmus:

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Support our hosts & guests:

Rebecca: Instagram // Twitter // Website // Substack

Mariquita: Instagram

Bonnie: Instagram // Twitter

Renee: Instagram // Twitter // The StoryGraph

Beyond the Box: Our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday

Check out our online community here!

This episode was edited by Niba and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.

In this episode Ashley interviews Kimberley Baker Guillemet about her memoir, Black Prep: Life Lessons of a Perpetual Outsider. In the interview, Ashley and Kimberley discuss family lineage, writing about childhood, being a Black girl receiving an outstanding education, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination.

Books mentioned:

Black Prep: Life Lessons of a Perpetual Outsider by Kimberley Baker Guillemet

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Follow Kimberley Baker Guillemet: Website

Follow Ashley: Website

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This episode was edited by Sarah Hernandez and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.