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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.”

Get yourself a hardcopy, ebook or audiobook and join the discussion!

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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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Feminist Book Club: July 2025

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings is described as “a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.”

Join 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 in reading The Women Could Fly. We’ll meet at Poinciana Paper Press (12 Parkgate Road) to discuss it on Wednesday, July 16 at 6pm.

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🗓 Wednesday, July 16
🕕 6pm
📍 Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road

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Feminist Book Club: June 2025

This month, 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 is reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki. It is about a “female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story.”

📰 From the publisher:
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination, but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew, and Kajii can’t resist writing back.

Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a master class in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii, but it seems that Rika might be the one changing. Do she and Kajii have more in common than she once thought?

Inspired by the real case of a convicted con woman and serial killer—the “Konkatsu Killer”—Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance, and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.

🌟 From a review:
The story primarily revolves around how Rika’s life is impacted as a result of her association with Kajii and her obsession with Kajii as a person which often derails her from her investigative intentions before she begins to see Kajii for exactly who she is. Kajii is an interesting character- straightforward, unapologetic and shrewdly manipulative. All the characters are well thought out and the descriptions of the food and Kajii’s recipes make for interesting reading. I particularly enjoyed how the author incorporates folklore into the narrative and found how the parallels between the same and the events in the novel are drawn fascinating.

Join us for the discussion!
🗓 Wednesday, June 18
🕕 6pm
📍 Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road
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Feminist Book Club: May 2025

📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 is a space to read, think about, and discuss books with people who have diverse, interesting perspectives informed by their individual experiences. We learn more about each other every time we meet, and it’s fun to compare and contrast what each book brings up for us, how we see the characters, and what takes a book to the category of favorites.

This month, we’re reading How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung, taking us to postapocalyptic New York City. It’s science fiction, it’s dystopia, it’s magical realism, and it’s queer.

🗓 Wednesday, May 21
🕕 6pm
📍 @poincianapaperpress, 12 Parkgate Road
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From the publisher:
“Acid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives.”

🗞 Kirkus said, “Surreal imagery combines with poetic prose to illustrate what life and love look like when crisis becomes commonplace and everyone is grieving―even the ghosts. At once absurd and profound.” People called it “a moving exploration of grief and survival.”

💬 Reviewers have said this book:
• is weird
• needs to be read as poetry
• is emotional and weirdly hopeful
• odd and compelling
• demands an open mind
• wants you to just go with it
• not going to be for everyone

Sounds like quite an experience, right? Let’s do it together!

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Feminist Book Club: April 2025

There is still time to order and read the book we selected for 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 in April. It’s a short one this time!

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is available in hardcopy, ebook, and audio formats.

A reviewer said:
“This small novel gave me breathing problems, as it happens when I read a good book about [women’s] struggles and the unfair way they are treated for deeds that are not their fault or have few options to protect themselves. All the hurt and suffering with the blessing of the Church and the passivity of people. I was enraged that the practice the novel writes about was in place until 1996!!!. There are no words. It was beautifully written, poignant and the ending left me with a flicker of hope in humankind. A small one though.”

🗓 Wednesday, April 16
🕕 6pm
📍 Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road

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Get ahead by ordering the book for May 2025 too. It’s How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung.

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Feminist Book Club: March 2025

📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 is meeting on Wednesday, March 19 at 6pm EST at Poinciana Paper Press to talk about What Happened to Belén: The Unjust Imprisonment That Sparked a Women’s Rights Movement by Ana Elena Correa.

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“In 2014, Belén, a twenty-five-year-old woman living in rural Argentina, went to the hospital for a stomachache—and soon found herself in prison. While at the hospital she had a miscarriage—without knowing she was pregnant. Because of the nation’s repressive laws surrounding abortion and reproductive rights, the doctors were forced to report her to the authorities. Despite her protestations, Belén was convicted and sentenced to two years for homicide.

“Belén’s cause became the centerpiece of a movement to achieve greater protections for all women. After two failed attempts to clear her name, Belén met feminist lawyer Soledad Deza, who quickly rallied Amnesty International and ignited an international feminist movement around #niunamas[…] The #niunamas movement was instrumental in pressuring Argentine president Alberto Fernández to decriminalize abortion in 2021.”

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