Rebel Girls Book Club

This 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 &nbsp...

Maggie 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  ...

Looking 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...

Harmony 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   Mango...

This 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...

This 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 G...

In 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%20it...

Harmony 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 Mag...

This 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...

This 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...

This 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-62ed8ddc80...

In 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: Transfor...

This 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...

Our 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/S096318...

This 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&amp...

This 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/art...

This 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=s...

We'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.v...

We'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 g...

Maggie 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/...

This 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.co...

You 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....

This 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...

We 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/ Goodr...

Maggie 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:/...