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10 Fanstastic New Books by Women to Make Catching Up on that New Year's Resolution to "Read More" a Breeze! ...
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... Press)
This collection of short stories by Bosnian author Asja Bakić, translated by Jennifer Zoble, is delightfully weird. Blending erotica, science fiction, and horror, Sweetlust asks: how does ...
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Created on 24 January 2023
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8 Best Horror Movies of 2022 Featuring Women to Watch (or Rewatch) at Your Next Movie Night
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... medium for drawing attention to social injustices. Think the highly acclaimed Jordan Peele film Get Out, which premiered in 2017. Through this film, Peele masterfully used fictional horror to convey the ...
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Created on 16 December 2022
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7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
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... on a variety of streaming platforms.
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction hit book Hidden Figures was the inspiration for this movie by the same name. In 1961, a group of three ...
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Created on 30 November 2022
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You'll Never Guess Where You Can Find 'Zines—And Learn to Make Them—These Da
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(Books)
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... on abortion. Searching the nonfiction shelves, you come up with nothing, so you make your way to the information desk and ask the clerk for help. The librarian looks in the catalogue and, sure enough, ...
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Created on 28 November 2022
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"Ejaculate Responsibly" is Exactly the Message We Need Right No
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... hitting the New York Times Bestseller list as the second-best nonfiction paperback. The book’s publishing company, Workman Publishing, placed two dozen copies throughout New York on park benches, subway ...
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Created on 11 November 2022
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Stop What You’re Doing and Read 'Shit Cassandra Saw,' A Cauldron of Sci-Fi, Historical fiction, and Modern Wit: BUST Review ...
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(Books)
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... Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby. A stunning debut, this collection of twenty-one flash fiction and short stories brings women from as far back as the Trojan era right up to modern-day life to the same level, ...
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Created on 26 October 2022
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Celebrated Author Celeste Ng Discusses Her Writing Process For Her New Book, "Our Missing Hearts" ...
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Best known for her novels Everything I Never Told You (2014) and Little Fires Everywhere (2017), New York Times bestselling author Celeste Ng is a wildly imaginative creator of family sagas. Her third ...
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Created on 03 October 2022
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Get To The Other Side Of Loss With These 10 Biographies On Grief and The Human Experience
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(Books)
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... offers the opportunity to learn from her journey and be inspired. This type of uplift and validation is often associated with non-fiction, memoir, self-help, and poetry. But biography has transformative ...
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Created on 29 September 2022
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1960s Chicago Abortion Activists "The Jane Collective" Inspires New Movie, "Call Jane" Starring Elizabeth Banks ...
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(Feminism)
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... by Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes, the documentary features testimonials from founding members including Heather Booth, Laura Kaplan, and Eleanor Oliver. Call Jane, a fictionalized story inspired by The Jane ...
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Created on 20 September 2022
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Why Audio Erotica Is Giving Women An Aural Fixation. Plus, 3 Places You Can Listen To It
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(Sex)
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... makes it a bummer to watch).
Enter audio erotica, a genre that straddles the zone between bedtime story and phone sex, in which voice actors narrate red-hot fiction without the visuals. Thanks to a slew ...
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Created on 24 August 2022
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Scared With Her, Not for Her: Keke Palmer Shines in "Nope
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Director Jordan Peele’s new science fiction thriller, Nope, tells the story of two siblings, Emerald (Keke Palmer) and Otis “OJ” Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya), continuing their father’s legacy of handling ...
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Created on 04 August 2022
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5 Times Pretty Little Liars Was Problematic As Hell
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(TV)
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... be launching on the streaming platform on July 28. Original Sin will feature a new generation of liars growing up in a new Pennsylvania town, trading out the fictional Rosewood for a real-life coal town. ...
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Created on 12 July 2022
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3 Intriguing New Novels By Women Tackle Family Secrets and Childhood Trauma: Reviews
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(Books)
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... years ago, reaches out, Mika believes that the only path forward is a semi-fictionalized one, giving the facade of her life a facelift while keeping her hopes, dreams, and heritage intact. But it doesn’t ...
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Created on 30 June 2022
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LA-Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's Latest, "Lapvona" is Out Now. Plus, A Peek At Her Fiction Practice ...
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(Books)
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L.A.-based novelist Ottessa Moshfegh made a grand entrance into the literary world in 2015 when her debut, Eileen, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and ...
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Created on 23 June 2022
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From Cabaret Shows to Premium Cable, Performer and MC Murray Hill is Everywhere—and That’s Just The Way He Likes It
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(Entertainment)
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... the City writer Jenny Bicks. The documentary-style show follows the quirky residents of the fictional Midwestern town of Flatch. Hill is one such resident—a local magic shop owner who peddles vapes on ...
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Created on 16 June 2022
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16.
Alison Bechdel Just Updated the Rules to the Bechdel Test for a Very Specific Reason
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(Movies)
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... in fiction. For example, the array of lesbian movies with tragic endings may pass the Bechdel Test, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t stereotype lesbian relationships as overly dramatic and scandalous. ...
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Created on 08 June 2022
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Amber Heard and the Limits of #MeToo: The Best Feminist Takes on the Depp v. Heard Verdict
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(Feminism)
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If you’ve been on the Internet at all in the past few weeks, you’ve probably been exposed, maybe unwillingly, to the Depp v. Heard trial. It was more intoxicating than fiction, and streaming free on ...
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Created on 03 June 2022
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French Abortion Drama "Happening" Shows a Realistic Look At The Consequences of Repealing Roe v. Wad
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(Music)
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... While the film is a fictionalized version of abortion access as it existed nearly 60 years ago, it serves as a powerful reminder of what’s still on the line.
Photo by Anamaria Vartolomei
This ...
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Created on 03 May 2022
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These 3 New Non-Fiction Titles Explore Women's Relationship to Money, The Personal Narrative, and Feminism in Myanma
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(Books)
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... after a section on how to pronounce her name, Pyae with a soft P, she delves into how she chose to pursue nonfiction writing because of her nosiness. There should be way more books by relatable people ...
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Created on 26 April 2022
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Janelle Monae's "The Memory Librarian" Tackles Afrofuturism, Plus a Deep Dive Into Witchcraft, and a Memoir From an Indigenous Pu
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(Books)
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... science fiction genre, The Memory Librarian is an assemblage of hope; liberation emerges when our memories and histories are used as educators. This one is sure to leave an impression. –Samantha Ladwig ...
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Created on 10 March 2022