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Feminist Book Club: May 2026

For May’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders, by Sarah Aziza.

Distinguished with several accolades – longlisted for the Palestine Book Awards, named a Best New Book by the San Francisco Chronicle and Elle, and named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture – it is a book that goes far beyond the constraints of traditional memoir. 

From the author:

Published in April 2025, The Hollow Half is a genre-bending, multi-generational memoir which weaves the lives of three Palestinians from Gaza, to the Midwest, to New York City, and beyond, probing themes of diaspora, erasure, mental health, and resilience.

Alexander Chee has called the book “astonishing. . . a blazing, hard-won triumph,” while Hala Alyan writes, “Through stunning, transformative prose, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation.”

🗓 Wednesday, May 20
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“In breathtaking prose, Palestinian American journalist Sarah Aziza confronts the looming specter of death in various forms. She writes movingly about recovering from an eating disorder that nearly killed her and delves into her family’s history and what it means to be the descendant of refugees from Gaza.” —Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle

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Feminist Book Club: April 2026

For April’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi.

Named Best Recent Poetry by The Guardian, this collection features voices from the African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora coming together to celebrate nature in all its forms.

From the publisher:

There has been a welcome surge of nature writing in recent years. Yet this has raised questions as to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and authors. In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance.

Their genre-enriching anthology presents brand-new commissions alongside formative works from the past fifty years that invite us to reconsider nature poetry from global-majority perspectives. Image-rich and formally diverse, the poems explore fundamental and ecological themes including climate crisis and the Anthropocene; urban nature, solitude and alienation; protest and radical empathy; Indigenous wisdom and alternative histories.

🗓 Wednesday, April 22
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“An exquisitely profound and groundbreaking testament to our natural world by many of the most powerful poetic voices of our times.” –Bernardine Evaristo

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Feminist Book Club: March 2026

For March’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading All We Want Is Everything by Soraya Chemaly

Remember when we had a discussion with Soraya Chemaly about The Resilience Myth during the Global 16 Days Campaign in 2024? If you found that informative and transformative to the way you see the world, you definitely want to pick up All We Want is Everything.

Get the book in hardcopy, ebook, or audio format and join 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 for the discussion.

🗓 Wednesday, March 18
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

From the publisher:
All We Want Is Everything offers both unflinching analysis and genuine hope, informed by the bold and revolutionary potential of feminist imagination. From private relationships to global politics, Chemaly shows how naming and refusing male supremacy is essential to resisting the forces tearing democracy apart. This fresh, timely, clear-eyed, and necessary manifesto is a call to refuse supremacist identities, relationships, and values in order to build more just, healthy, and sustainable worlds for everyone.

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Feminist Book Club: February 2026

For February’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark.

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, author P. Djèlí Clark spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. When not writing speculative fiction, he works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World.

From the author:

D. W. Griffith is a sorcerer, and The Birth of a Nation is a spell that drew upon the darkest thoughts and wishes from the heart of America. Now, rising in power and prominence, the Klan has a plot to unleash Hell on Earth.

Luckily, Maryse Boudreaux has a magic sword and a head full of tales. When she’s not running bootleg whiskey through Prohibition Georgia, she’s fighting monsters she calls “Ku Kluxes.” She’s damn good at it, too. But to confront this ongoing evil, she must journey between worlds to face otherworldly nightmares—and her own demons. Together with a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter, Maryse sets out to save a world from the hate that would consume it.

🗓 Wednesday, February 18
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“Ring Shout is a fearless punch to the heart and head! Fantasy, hellacious action, and complex characters along with an unflinching look at the terrifying nature of racism. Highly recommended!”

—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and Black Panther: DoomWar

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Feminist Book Club: January 2026

For our first 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚  of 2026, we’re reading Theory and Practice: A Novel by Michelle de Kretser.

From the publisher:
It’s 1986, and “beautiful, radical ideas” are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a “deconstructed relationship.” They become lovers, and the narrator’s feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf’s diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.

What happens when our desires run contrary to our beliefs? What should we do when the failings of revered figures come to light? Who is shamed when the truth is told? Michelle de Kretser’s new novel offers a spellbinding meditation on the moral complexities that arise in the gap between our values and our lives.

🗓 Wednesday, January 21
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day—questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about the thorny cultural legacy of colonialism and the unappeasable human yearning for connection.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Vulnerables

de Krester’s latest novel has been widely lauded as the Winner of The Stella Prize, A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, A Best Fiction Book of the Year from The Washington Post, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Our Culture Magazine, and A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from The Millions.

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Feminist Book Club: November 2025

Over the next month, 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 is reading Genocide Bad by Sim Kern. “Part activist memoir, part crash course in Jewish and Palestinian history, Genocide Bad dismantles Zionist propaganda in ten unapologetic essays. Drawing connections between Biblical promises and exploding pagers, medieval dress codes and modern-day apartheid, Kern sketches a sweeping history of imperialism with their characteristic blend of far-ranging research, pop-culture insights, and scathing humor.”

🗓️ Wednesday, November 19
🕕 6pm
📍 Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road, Nassau

Genocide Bad has received rave reviews from readers who say “I wish I could give this more than five stars,” “Devastating. Beautiful. Frightful. Righteous. Vital,” and “A brave and engagingly written book.”

From the publisher –”Kern doesn’t flinch when confronting the horrors of genocides past and present, but there is also tremendous hope contained in these pages—hope that springs from examples of courage and resilience in the face of extreme violence, and from the kinds of resistance that might just lead to our collective liberation.”

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Feminist Book Club: October 2025

For our virtual 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 this month, author of Village Weavers, Myriam J. A. Chancy will join us on Zoom to get in on our discussion and answer your burning questions!

The book takes place in 1940s’ Port-au-Prince, where Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship—until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart.

🗓 Wednesday, October 22
🕕 6pm
📍 Zoom

In her review for the Chicago Review of Books, Ariana Valderrama wrote, “This book reminded me why historical fiction, when done well, is my favorite genre….Chancy writes movingly about the importance of friendship and community and the constantly reverberating impacts of colonialism. I appreciated the elegant and evocative writing while also being swept away in an incredible story.”

Village Weavers is the Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Award in Caribbean Literature, a TIME and Ms. Magazine Best Book of April, a CBC best Canadian fiction of 2024, and a Chicago Review of Books 2024 Best Book.

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Books We’ve Read – Feminist Book Club

2025 

January 22 – The Vegetarian by Han Kang
February 19 – Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk
March 19 – What Happened to Belén: The Unjust Imprisonment that Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement by Ana Elena Correa
April 16 – Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
May 21 – How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung
June 18 – Butter by Asako Yuzuki
July 16 – The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings
August 20 – All Fours by Miranda July
September 17 – Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origin of the Climate Crisis by Tao Leigh Goffe

2024

February 21 – Blind Days by Ian Chinaka Strachan and Citizen by Claudia Rankine
March 20 – Evil Eye by Etaf Rum
April 17 – How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
May 15 – Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
June 19 –  Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key
September 18 – Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò
October 16 – A Mouth Full of Salt by Reem Gaafar
November 20 – The Resilience Myth by Soraya Chemaly


2023

January 26 – A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
February 23 – What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
March 23 – Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
July 27 – Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
August 24 – Assembly by Natasha Brown
September 21 – Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
October 18 – Sista Sister by Candice Brathwaite
November 16 – Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

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Feminist Book Club: September 2025

📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 is reading Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origin of the Climate Crisis by Tao Leigh Goffe this month. Get it in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook format and join the discussion!

🗓 Wednesday, September 17
🕕 6pm
📍 Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road

“Braiding together family history, cultural reportage, and social studies, Goffe radically transforms how we conceive of Blackness, the natural world, colonialism, and the climate crisis; and, in doing so, she deftly dismantles the many layers of entrenched imperialist thinking that shroud our established understanding of the human and environmental conditions to reveal the cause and effect of a global catastrophe. Dark Laboratory forces a reckoning with the received forms of knowledge that have led us astray.”

The Atlantic called Dark Laboratory ambitious saying, “This is an urgent and frequently grim work, but it is also hopeful….And Goffe is relentlessly engaging, leaving the academy’s dusty archives, and traveling from Jamaica to Sardinia, Hong Kong to Hawai‘i, to discover better ways to live.”

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Feminist Book Club: August 2025

Miranda July’s latest novel All Fours has been described as “part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist. The performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director’s book “transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.”

Join 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 in reading All Fours. We’ll meet at Poinciana Paper Press (12 Parkgate Road) to discuss it on Wednesday, August 20 at 6pm.

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🗓 Wednesday, August 20
🕕 6pm
📍 Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road

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