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Happy belated birthday, Jane Austen!
Yesterday was the 235th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen, creator of my favourite fictional heroine, Lizzie Bennet (Lizzie shares the top spot with Hermione Granger and Anne Shirley). It was my...
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Anne Shirley: red-headed snippet, freckled fictional heroine and stealth...
This is the third post in a series about the Anne of Green Gables books by Lucy Maud Montgomery – if you want more Anne, you can have more Anne! Feminist heroines are hard to find in fiction. It’s...
View ArticleAnd the Hey, Boo tickets go to…
Caterina Gironda, who sent in this lovely poem: I want to tell you that I am woman, Because I feel my womb swell once a month, And bleed with the promise to produce a new life. I want to tell you that...
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Gatsby. What Gatsby?
I don’t know about you, but I’m really feeling this trailer. Baz Lurhmann’s signature penchant for assigning an anachronistic soundscape to re-imagined and vividly colorful fictional histories had me...
View ArticlePublishing’s perpetual problem with women among many other things.
In the wake of the Jonah Lehrer controversy, Roxanne Gay wonders if the publishing industry coddles young male writers and unpacks the fascination with our boy genius narrative: Lehrer’s success and...
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Louise Erdrich becomes first American Indian woman to win National Book Award
Erdrich’s book, The Round House, is about violence against American Indian women, and about one young man who confronts that violence when it finds its way into his home. According to CBS News, A...
View ArticleHappy 200th anniversary, Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen’s famous novel Pride and Prejudice was first published on January 28th, 1812, 200 years ago today. While Austen’s work isn’t exactly an experiment in radical intersectional rebellion, she...
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Quote of the Day: “People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.”
Novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers some #realtalk in response to a question about the role of anger and humor in her writing in a recent interview at The American Reader. People only say I’m angry because...
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Coverflip challenge reimagines famous dude book covers as by and for women
Coverflip created by Hannah Yesterday author Maureen Johnson, fed up with sexist responses to the perceived gender appeal of her books covers, issued a challenge to her followers. She writes: You are...
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The Academic Feminist: Koritha Mitchell on lynching, LGBT violence, and love
Welcome back, Academic Feminists. This month’s edition features Koritha Mitchell, Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Her research, which is focused on African-American...
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The Feministing Five: Lisa Factora-Borchers
As a recovering literature major, literary-based-activism will always jolt my feminist heart to skip a beat. Which is why I was so thrilled to speak with Lisa Factora-Bochers, a rad Filipina American...
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VIDA releases report on gender representation in children’s literature
VIDA, the organization that brings us pie charts showing the gender gap in literary bylines, recently released an assessment of gender representation in children’s literature. The prevailing opinion...
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Our Dangerous Ideology: Insurgent Literature on Activism
#181462363 / gettyimages.com We, especially those of us in feminist movements, seem to relive the wracking debates of our movement’s past lives, and as people of colour in particular we seem...
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Feministing Readz: Looking for home in ire’ne lara silva’s flesh to bone
I’m not sure about your social media, but mine lately’s been blowing up with people talking about just how much their hometown they are. People on my feeds are so Chicago. They’re so Wingate, NC,...
View ArticleWhy don’t men read books by women?
I made a pledge at the beginning of 2015. This year, I’m only reading books by women. I borrowed this pledge from Lilit Marcus, who did the same thing in 2013, and so far, I’ve read some stunners. (I...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen and the privilege of technophobia
Ed. note: This post was originally published on the Community site. “Jonathan Franzen is Having More Fun Than His Critics,” reads the headline of Laura Miller’s rave review of the author’s latest tome,...
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Feministing Five: Writer Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo on closing the literary...
Back in 2011, a group of writers who were frustrated with underrepresentation of women in literature gathered in writer Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo‘s mother’s kitchen. They founded “Women Who Submit,” a...
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Feministing Reads: Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women
How is Anne Boyer so good? Let me count the ways. It might be that she’s the kind of poet and prose author who makes you come alive to touching feeling, which is to say, to forms of poetry that are...
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Feministing Reads: Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors
Before Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors (May 2016, New Directions), I had never read a book explicitly about babies and literature. I soon learned that this was likely because babies have historically...
View ArticleThe Feministing Five: Jamia Wilson
Jamia Wilson is an intersectional feminist activist powerhouse, a storyteller, a media maker, and now, the first women of color to lead the Feminist Press. Before the Feminist Press, Jamia was the...
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