Rebel Girls Book Club
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Are you tired of reading the same angsty hero narrative over and over again? So are we. That's why we're examining stories that feature rebellious heroines through an intersectional feminist lens. In this podcast, we will go deep into the latest bestsellers, comic books, and English class-worthy literature without taking ourselves too seriously. It's a book club for feminist literary nerds. So, grab a cup of tea, a cozy blanket, and come gab with us about your new favorite read.
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The House of Rust
January 03, 2022 09:43 - 55 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week Harmony interviews Khadija Abdalla Bajaber all about her debut novel The House of Rust. The House of Rust follows Aisha, q girl living in Mombasa who must save her father from a fantastical world. To follow our episode schedule, go here https://rebelgirlsbook.club/read-along-with-the-show/ Follow our social media pages on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebe...
Best Books We Read in 2021
December 26, 2021 20:08 - 40 minutes - 23.4 MBMaggie and Harmony break down their top 10 reads of 2021. These are the sticky books that are burned into our brains forever after this year. There are surprises, there's a re-read, there's mystery and intrigue. In This Episode: The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garci...
Miami Book Fair: Three Writers on History, Hardship & Healing
December 20, 2021 05:25 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBLooking for last-minute gift ideas? Back in November, Maggie and Harmony got to interview three wonderful authors about their new middle-grade novels. Each book focuses on a difficult contemporary hardship and showcases how young people can cope with it. The books: Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero by Saadia Faruqi The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga To follow our episode schedule go here. Follow our social media pages on Instagram Facebook Goodreads and Twitte...
Reader's Advisory: Holiday Book Recommendations
December 13, 2021 01:51 - 25 minutes - 14.4 MBHarmony and Maggie attempt to give you sapphic holiday reading recommendations. And then just general holiday romance recommendations. And then just books about winter. Plus side? There's a little something for everyone here. In this Episode: The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows: Feminine Pursuits by Olivia Waite A Little Light Mischief: A Turner Novella by Cat Sebastian Mangoes and Mistletoe: A Foodie Holiday Novella by Adriana Herrera Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleu...
O Beautiful interview with Jung Yun
December 06, 2021 07:10 - 44 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony interview Jung Yun about her latest book O Beautiful the story of a forty-something former model attempting to become a journalist who is sent to cover the oil boom in North Dakota. Jung Yun was a featured speaker at this year's Miami Book Fair. To follow our episode schedule go here. Follow our social media pages on Instagram Facebook Goodreads and Twitter. Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays, and our image is by...
The Birthday Book Tag
November 29, 2021 06:38 - 14 minutes - 8.34 MBThis week Harmony and Maggie take the Birthday Book Tag created by Antonia at Always Books. Find out books we want to revisit as adults, books that got us through the pandemic, and more in this fun episode! In This Episode: The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw All's Well b...
Indigenous Anarchism
November 22, 2021 10:06 - 49 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this episode, Maggie and Harmony explore Indigenous Anarchism and the Land Back movement. In this episode 4:18 - "Locating an Indigenous Anarchism" https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-locating-an-indigenous-anarchism 24:28 - "What is the Land Back Movement?: A call for native sovereignty and reclamation." https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-the-land-back-movement#:~:text=On%20its%20face%2C%20the%20land,in%20the%20taking%20of%20it. 25:47 - "I can't remember the text r...
The End of the Year Book Tag!
November 15, 2021 02:00 - 11 minutes - 6.64 MBHarmony and Maggie do The End of the Year Book Tag created by Ariel Bissett. Are we mood readers or do we plan what we'll read? Do we have a favorite book of the year set in stone? What does our autumn TBR pile look like? All this and more in this week's episode! In This Episode: Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic by Ri...
Interview with Cassandra Lane about We Are Bridges
November 08, 2021 05:35 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week Harmony interviews Cassandra Lane the managing editor of L.A. Parent magazine and author of the memoir We Are Bridges. Lane reclaims her ancestral heritage while she contemplates upcoming motherhood. In the interview, Lane tells us about the process of healing through writing. Follow Cassandra: https://www.cassandralane.net Buy We Are Bridges https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781952177927 To follow our episode schedule, go here https://rebelgirlsbook.club/read-along-with-the-show/ ...
The Once and Future Witches
October 25, 2021 05:23 - 40 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week Harmony and Maggie talk about the Once and Future Witches in terms of intersectional solidarity. They also goof off in this tearful reunion episode. In this episode: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/10/feminist-solidarity-empowers-everyone-the-movement-must-be-trans-inclusive To follow our episode schedule, go here https://rebelgirlsbook.club/read-along-with-the-show/ Follow our social media pages on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www...
Maggie Time: Recent Reads
October 18, 2021 02:29 - 6 minutes - 2.91 MBThis week Maggie shares three excellent recent reads for all of you. Looking for a five-star YA fantasy? I've got your back. Need a spooky book before Halloween? Got that too. Want to cry to an audiobook during your morning commute? I've got a recommendation for that too. In this episode: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko https://bookshop.org/books/raybearer-e83905da-04c1-4d90-a61f-62ed8ddc80b2/9781419739835?aid=9908&listref=maggie-s-irl-reading-list The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher https:...
Cemetery Boys
October 13, 2021 04:45 - 28 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this spooky episode, Harmony focuses on community in the YA novel Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas. In this episode: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/brujeria-meaning-explained Irene Lara. BRUJA POSITIONALITIES: Toward a Chicana/Latina Spiritual Activism. Chicana/Latina studies. 2005;4(2):10-45. Monteagut, L. E. (2017). Second-generation 0RW1S34RfeSDcfkexd09rT2bruja1RW1S34RfeSDcfkexd09rT2: Transforming ancestral shadows into spiritual activism (Order No. 10643084). Available from ProQuest...
Maggie Time: Three Books on Climate Change
October 04, 2021 01:23 - 7 minutes - 3.25 MBThis week Maggie gives you three fiction recommendations for thinking about the climate crisis. Spoiler: only one of them is fantasy. We're shocked too. Let's talk about community and land in the context of the fictional-but-not-really apocalypse. In this episode: The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin https://bookshop.org/books/the-nature-of-witches/9781728229423?aid=9908&listref=maggie-s-irl-reading-list The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline https://bookshop.org/books/the-marrow-th...
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
September 27, 2021 03:05 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBOur girl Harmony talks about witches, midwifery, and contemporary healthcare for women. This episode features: Amaris, talking about her experiences as a woman of color trying to be diagnosed with chronic pain and illness (and the journey that sent her on). Works Referenced: SCOTT, N. (2018). Anarchism and Health. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 27(2), 217-227. doi:10.1017/S0963180117000561 Yous, M-L, Strachan, PH, Ploeg, J. Is feyerabendian philosophy relevant for scientific k...
Maggie Time: Eating My Words about YA Literature
September 20, 2021 01:22 - 7 minutes - 3.26 MBThis week Maggie eats her words about YA Literature (and audiobooks) not being her cup of tea. They are totally her cup of tea. I've got five of my favorite (mostly fantasy if we're being honest about it) young adult reading recommendations for you here: get them while they're hot. In this episode: Lobizona by Romina Garber https://bookshop.org/books/lobizona/9781250239129?aid=9908&listref=maggie-s-irl-reading-list The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley https://bookshop.org/boo...
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
September 13, 2021 07:07 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBThis week Harmony reads Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall and compares it to Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria. She discusses Critical Race Theory and the Texas abortion ban. In This Episode: A CONVERSATION WITH NELL IRVIN PAINTER On The History of White People https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/abs/conversation-with-nell-irvin-painter/BB992DE5DFB64A4881B04F53260033F3 The intersec...
Maggie Time: Reproductive Justice Recommendations That Aren't The Handmaid's Tale
September 06, 2021 16:52 - 4 minutes - 2.68 MBThis week Maggie has a reading list for you all. Let's talk about reproductive justice with a mix of fiction and non-fiction books that explore abortion, IVF, eugenics, and more. We've got long-form journalism, think pieces, and oh yeah: a bunch of dystopias to explore. In This Episode: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas: https://bookshop.org/books/red-clocks/9780316434782?aid=9908&listref=season-two Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdich: https://bookshop.org/books/future-home-of-the-l...
Against White Feminism: interviewing author Rafia Zakaria
August 30, 2021 01:27 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MBWe're kicking off season three with a recentering and reconstruction of feminism away from a white-middle class perspective. In this episode, Harmony interviews writer, philosopher, and lawyer Rafia Zakaria on her latest book, Against White Feminism Notes on Disruption. In this episode: The Personal Is Political http://www.carolhanisch.org/CHwritings/PIP.html Intersectionality https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimina...
Notes on Season Three of RGBC
August 29, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 5.68 MBWe've made it to season 3! This season is going to be different than anything else we've tried before. Hear all about it in today's intro ep. Be sure to tune in Monday to our first official episode. Maggie's reads: Inheritors by Asako Serizawa https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780385545372 A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781250315328 To follow our episode schedule go here https://rebelgirlsbook.club/read-along-with-the-show/ Follow our social media pages...
Salvage the Bones
June 28, 2021 05:48 - 55 minutes - 31.6 MBMaggie and Harmony wrap up Season 2 with Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. They discuss womanhood, class, and Hurricane Katrina as a metaphor. What we're reading: This Is My Brain in Love by I. W. Gregorio https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316423823 The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781679910999 To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://...
Forget Russia with Author L. Bordetsky-Williams
June 21, 2021 02:20 - 50 minutes - 29 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony interview author L. Bordetsky-Williams about her book Forget Russia. To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at Rebe...
Portable Poetry: Sappho's "A Hymn to Aphrodite"
June 14, 2021 04:10 - 34 minutes - 19.6 MBYou can find Summer in the City by Lori Wilde, Priscilla Oliveras, and Sarah Skilton wherever books are sold. Find out more at Kensingtonbooks.com. This week Maggie and Harmony read Sappho's "A Hymn to Aphrodite." To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodr...
Portable Poetry: "A Song of Someplace Yet to Fall"
June 07, 2021 05:03 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBThis week maggie and Harmony read "A Song of Someplace Yet to Fall" by Ryka Aoki from the book Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul. Check out the book here: https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780991900855 What we're reading: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780062882769 Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780778311027 Females by Andrea Long Chu https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781788737371 One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake http...
You're allowed one problematic fave: An RGBC blooper episode.
May 31, 2021 19:33 - 11 minutes - 7.6 MBWe are on break this week but will come at you next week with a portable poetry episode and Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 ...
Building bookish, feminist communities with The Mistress of the House of Books
May 24, 2021 04:32 - 53 minutes - 30.4 MBMaggie and Harmony interview the founders of The Mistress of the House of Books, Yasmine and Molli. MOH is a website examining literature through a feminist lens. What we're reading: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525657743 A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780156787338 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780593133378 Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Ibi Zoboi https://boo...
Hunger
May 17, 2021 01:03 - 54 minutes - 31.2 MBMaggie and Harmony discuss bodies and what it means to be living in these weird meat suits after reading Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay. What we're reading: Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316213882 Me & Mama by Cozbi A. Cabrera https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781534454217 Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316362382 The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta https://books...
Portable Poetry: Maryam’s Labor
May 10, 2021 02:18 - 36 minutes - 20.8 MBThis week we round off our series on Christian mythology with a poem by Mohja Kahf called Maryam’s Labor. We discuss the purpose of God, struggle as triumph, and what women reclaiming Christianity may look like. Read the poem here: https://eewc.com/eves-summons-and-maryams-labor/ What we're reading: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780375714498 When He Was Wicked: Bridgerton by Julia Quinn ...
The Book of Longings, Part 2
May 03, 2021 05:56 - 53 minutes - 30.8 MBMaggie and Harmony finish The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. They read from page 215 to the end of the book and seriously question their working definition of feminist literature. This podcast is sponsored by An Earl, The Girl, And A Toddler By Vanessa Riley. Award-winning author Vanessa Riley continues The Rogues and Remarkable Women series with a poignant and swoon-worthy tale ideal for the Bridgerton binge-watcher. To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girl...
The Book of Longings, Part 1
April 26, 2021 16:10 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony dive back into Christian mythology with The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. They read up to page 215. What we're reading: Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316517911 Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781616207014 Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781250766564 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky ...
Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done: Unpacking racism toward Asians and Pacific Islanders
April 19, 2021 05:15 - 1 hour - 37.6 MBThis week we read the poem "Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done," by Victoria Chang. We also bring on a couple of friends, Amery and Angelica, to talk about racism toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Read the poem: https://poets.org/poem/barbie-chang-got-her-hair-done Action Resources Black Girls Code https://www.blackgirlscode.com/mailing-list.html Bystander intervention training https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/ To follow our episode schedu...
The Passion of Mary Magdalen, Part 3
April 12, 2021 06:43 - 58 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week we finished The Passion of Mary Magdalen and try to interpret the meaning of life as the book presents it. Elizabeth Cunningham if you have answers, we're eagerly listening. What we're reading: The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781250175571 Real Life by Brandon Taylor https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525538882 To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social medi...
The Passion of Mary Magdalen, Part 2
April 05, 2021 03:02 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBMaggie and Harmony celebrate Easter with a feminist retelling of the bible, The Passion of Mary Magdalen by Elizabeth Cunningham. They read from Chapter 27 "To Sing or Return to Silence" (page 209) to Chapter 51 "Help!" (Page 418). Action Resources: Bystander intervention training https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/ What we're reading: A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby: A Multi-Cultural Historical Regency Romance by Vanessa Riley https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781420152234 The ...
The Passion of Mary Magdalen, Part 1
March 29, 2021 06:12 - 55 minutes - 31.5 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony start one of Harmony's favorite books, The Passion of Mary Magdalen by Elizabeth Cunningham. They read up to page 209, Chapter Twenty-Seven "To sing or return to silence." They discuss trauma responses, Christian mythology, and radical forgiveness. What we're reading? The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781250178602 A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby: A Multi-Cultural Historical Regency Romance by Vanessa Riley https://bookshop.org/a/9908...
Girls Burn Brighter Part 2
March 22, 2021 05:33 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBMaggie and Harmony finish Girls Burn Brighter this week and become nihilists. What we're reading: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780812997439 Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781982108847 A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781420152234 The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780593099605 To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-g...
Girls Burn Brighter Part 1
March 15, 2021 04:28 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony discuss resiliency, as they read up to page 202 of Girls, Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao. What we're reading: An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780062353658 The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316541428 To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com...
Heart Berries
March 08, 2021 07:07 - 1 hour - 35.6 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony explore mental health, womanhood, and the treatment of American Indians in the memoir Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot. To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter https://...
Herland
February 22, 2021 04:40 - 55 minutes - 31.9 MBMaggie and Harmony delve into the seminal feminist text, Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. They discuss plenty of lighthearted topics like Eugenics and white lady racism, abortion, and sexual assault. They also try to dissect the need and place of texts such as Herland despite their problematic aspects. What we're reading: The Removed by Brandon Hobson https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780062997548 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525620785 To follow...
Portable Poetry: The Nutritionist
February 15, 2021 05:26 - 35 minutes - 20.4 MBMaggie and Harmony kick off a new mini-series to replace Bite-Sized Bits. Sprinkled throughout the rest of the season you can catch our Portable Poetry eps. This week we examine Nutritionist by Andrea Gibson. What we're reading: White Ivy by Susie Yang Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media p...
Binti
February 08, 2021 05:32 - 51 minutes - 29.2 MBMaggie and Harmony devour another book by Nnedi Okorafor this week. Binti is the story of a mathematician who leaves her home planet to study at university and ends up as a mediator between humans and an alien species. What we're reading: Witches In A Crumbling Empire by Rhyd Wildermuth https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781732552302 Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780062941237 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780451532244 Bint...
Akata Witch
February 01, 2021 02:20 - 51 minutes - 29.6 MBMaggie and Harmony hone in on the theme "knowledge is power," displayed in this fantastical middle-grade novel by Nnedi Okorafor about four-young Nigerian Leopard People. What we're reading: Outlawed by Anna North https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781635575422 Sadie by Courtney Summers https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781250267139 Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780593230251 Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas https://bookshop.org/a/9908/97812...
Children of Blood and Bone: Part 2
January 25, 2021 01:41 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony finish Children of Blood and Bone. They read from pg. 260 to the end. What we're reading: The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780593085684 Outlawed by Anna North https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781635575422 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781594746031 Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780062941237 To follow our episode schedule go here ht...
Children of Blood and Bone: part 1
January 18, 2021 02:43 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony step into a fantastic world of magic, warriors, and gods as they unpack up to pg. 259 of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Take Action: Police and Prison Reform from Thinking Abolition https://drive.google.com/file/d/12QHDT4D9UcIATb_gSwIu3CLYCGsd8rjr/view Abolish the Death Penalty https://www.ncadp.org/pages/about-us#mission What we're reading: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781594746031...
Not Your Sidekick/Unpacking the Attempted Coup
January 11, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony become socio-political commentators as they attempt to make sense of the attempted coup in Washington D.C. that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021. They talk about these events through major themes that occur in the book Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee. In this episode: https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/may/06/why-ya-books-about-politics-election-always-dystopian https://dystopianyaliterature.weebly.com/common-themes.html https://bookriot.com/what-is...
Bite-Sized Bits Through the Ages 2010: Virgins
January 04, 2021 03:00 - 56 minutes - 32.5 MBHappy 2021! Maggie and Harmony ring in the new year by finishing out the Bite-Sized Bits Through the Ages series. They examine the short story "Virgins" by Danielle Evans as in the book Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self. They discuss the construct of virginity and coming of age. What we're reading: The once and future witches by Alix E. Harrow https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316422048 The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780440237778 In this episode: ...
The Sweet Far Thing
December 28, 2020 04:43 - 1 hour - 40 MBThis week a new guest joins Harmony for a discussion on The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray. They delve into the joys of fantasy and its potential for dealing with real-world issues, social domination theory, the shadow self, and philosophical anarchism. In this episode: https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A75841#page/2/mode/2up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dominance_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism#:~:text=Anarchism%20is%20a%20political%20...
Rebel Angels
December 21, 2020 03:24 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBIn this episode, Maggie and Harmony dive into Foucaultian power theory in Rebel Angels by Libba Bray. They explored the different power relationships and knowledge of Anne, Gemma, Felicity, Ms. Moore, and Kartik. In this episode: Michel Foucault’s theory of power https://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/foucault-power-is-everywhere/ Relationship to feminism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-power/ To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-boo...
A Great and Terrible Beauty
December 14, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour - 54.5 MBWe're back and ringing in the Holiday season with this YA classic. In this episode Harmony reminisces about her angsty teens and Maggie contemplates the Gemma Doyle Trilogy for the first time. They dive into colonialism, fetishization of men of color by white women, the angst and uncertainty of girlhood, and the power of choice. What we're reading: Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316707046 The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9...
I really have to-- I smell rotten eggs: An RGBC Blooper episode
December 07, 2020 18:27 - 10 minutes - 7.15 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony are on a break, but tune in next week for our analysis of A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBo...
Persepolis Volume 2
November 30, 2020 01:07 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBLast week we dived into the Iranian Iraq war from the perspective of Marjane Satrapi. This week we narrow our focus and learn about her personal journey to find her identity after leaving and coming back to her homeland. What we're reading: The Lost Coast by A. R. Capetta https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781536200966 Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316126069 Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781250313225 To follow our e...
Persepolis Volume 1
November 23, 2020 03:41 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBThis week Maggie and Harmony dive into the first volume of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi they attempt to read class, imperialism, and the fall of a nation through a feminist-Marxist lens. In this episode: Marxist Criticism (1930s-present) WHAT IS ORIENTALISM? I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There. Taking a Break After the 2020 Election Helps Avoid Activist Burnout Action Resources We've been taking an activism break but this past week was Trans Awareness week and don't f...