Join us for the last Feminist Book Club meeting of 2024! We’re reading The Resilience Myth by Soraya Chemaly, a Bahamian-American author, activist, and feminist based in the U.S.

Date: Wednesday, November 20 at 6pm EST
Location: Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road

Kate Manne calls The Resilience Myth “a must-read book for our age.” She says, “Resilience is an ideology—comprising elements of individualism, bootstraps, and even victim-blaming. With characteristically brilliant arguments and meticulous research, Chemaly demolishes this ideology in The Resilience Myth and shows us how to build something so much better for everyone facing adversity.”

We’ll be joined by Soraya Chemaly in the second half of the meeting, so be sure to bring your questions. It’ll be a great conversation about the expectation that individuals be resilient and the ways our communities need to come to together for sustained care and support.

The Resilience Myth by Soraya Chemaly is available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. There’s time to get it and read it before November 20!

Register to join: tiny.cc/fbc2024

In this edition of Women’s Wednesdays that took place November 6, 2024, we were in conversation with Kelli Jolly, Outreach Coordinator at Hands for Hunger about what the organization does and why food rescue is central to its work.

We want know what is being done, and what we all can do, to achieve food security. Crises like Hurricane Dorian and the COVID-19 pandemic showed us how precarious our access to food is here in The Bahamas. Let’s find out if and how it changed operations at Hands for Hunger and how this organization, providing food on a daily basis, balances that work with the structural changes that need to take place countrywide.

Watch the session from November 6, 2024 below.

Women’s Wednesdays was designed by Equality Bahamas as a response to community members’ requests for a space to access resources, experts, and practitioners, share knowledge, and engage in conversation with one another. Officially started in May 2017, Women’s Wednesdays highlights Bahamian women and our experiences in The Bahamas, specific to our identities including gender, race, sexuality, age, and ability. Held once per month at minimum, the events draw women together to have conversations that bring our individual lives into focus while connecting to family, community, and national narratives.

#WW242 intentionally centers and prioritizes women and girls, and is open to the public through in-person events, livestreams, and social media activity. With the support of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, we create a safe space for knowledge-building, idea-sharing, critical dialogue, and movement-building.

Feminist Book Club is reading A Mouth Full of Salt by Reem Gaafar this month.

“[…] a little boy has drowned[…] The villagers whisper of a sorceress who dwells at the foot of the mountains[…] Sixteen-year-old Fatima yearns to leave the village for Khartoum. In Khartoum, a single mother makes her way in a world that wants to keep girls and women back. As civil war swells, the political intrudes into the personal and her position in the capital becomes untenable. She must return to the village.”

The New Arab said, “‘A Mouth Full of Salt skillfully recounts the nuanced history of two countries that were divided long before they had any say in the matter. Gaafar approaches this narrative with compassion, confronting uncomfortable truths head-on.'”

🗓 Join us for the discussion on Wednesday, October 16 at 6pm EDT.

🔗 Register: tiny.cc/fbc2024

Feminist Book Club is reading Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò this month.