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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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Feminist Book Club: February 2025

We’re reading Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. in 💖📚Feminist Book Club📚💖 this month.
Book Riot said, “Scary and unsettling and sometimes outright horrifying… These stories are wildly imaginative, frightening, and fun.” Some members have started reading the book and they all agree with this assessment.
Join us for the discussion! Our meeting on Wednesday, February 19 at 6pm will be virtual.
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Feminist Book Club: January 2025

New year, new books!

💖📚Feminist Book Club📚💖 continues in 2025, hosted by Equality Bahamas and Poinciana Paper Press on the third Wednesday of the month at 6pm. This month, we’re meeting a bit later as everyone recovers from the holiday season.

Join us in reading and discussing The Vegetarian by Han Kang.

After having strange nightmares, a woman decides to stop eating meat. Her family tries to exert control over her, she resists, and violence ensues.

The Guardian said, “Dark dreams, simmering tensions, chilling violence . . . This South Korean novel is a feast. . . . It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, startling colors and disturbing questions. . . . Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience.”

Join us for the discussion this month:
📅 Wednesday, January 22 at 6pm.

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Feminist Book Club: November 2024

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!

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Feminist Book Club: October 2024

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.

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Feminist Book Club: September 2024

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

Yejide and Akin fell in love in university, got married, and decided polygamy was not for them. When they have a hard time conceiving, family members deliver a new wife to their door. What are they supposed to do?

The Economist called Stay With Me “a gut-wrenching tale of how wanting a child can wreck a woman, a marriage and a community” and Adébáyò a writer to watch.

Join Poinciana Paper Press and Equality Bahamas for the (virtual) discussion!
Wednesday, September 18

6pm EDT

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Feminist Book Club: August 2024

For August’s Feminist Book Club, we’re reading a book by a Bahamian author! Where Was Goodbye by Janice Lynn Mather is up for Wednesday, August 21 at 6pm EDT. Join us for a discussion on Zoom.

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Feminist Book Club: July 2024

Feminist Book Club is rockin’ through the summer!

We’re reading They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta this month. Join us for the discussion on Wednesday, July 17 at 6pm EDT.

From the publisher:
“Gupta addresses her story to her mother, braiding a deeply vulnerable personal narrative with history, postcolonial theory, and research on mental health to show how she slowly made sense of her reality and freed herself from the pervasive, reductive myth that had once defined her. But tragically, the act that liberated Gupta was also the act that distanced her from those she loved most. By charting her family’s slow unraveling, and her determination to break the cycle, Gupta shows how traditional notions of success keep us disconnected from ourselves and one another—and passionately argues why we must orient ourselves toward compassion over belonging.”

Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere, said, “I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender spot where racism, sexism, and family dynamics collide, and somehow manages to be both searingly honest and deeply compassionate.”

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Feminist Book Club: June 2024

Feminist Book Club is reading Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key over the next few weeks.

From the blurb:
“Mapping the evolution of her early conceptions of love through her adulthood, Key offers a tender and nakedly candid celebration of the many forms of intimacy that often go unnoticed. An essential work for both the single and the partnered, Arrangements in Blue is a bold manual for building a life on your own terms.”

From an interview with Amy Key:
“It feels vulnerable and scary to talk about life without romantic love at its center because it’s something that has made me feel ashamed and lonely throughout my life. I thought there was something wrong with me. I don’t think that now and more than that I’ve come to think it would be good for everyone to knock romantic love off its perch – to question its place at the center of experience.”

Join the online discussion:
Wednesday, June 19 at 6pm EDT

We’re meeting online only for the next few months, so make your snack and beverage plans!

We encourage you to buy the book from an independent bookstore. If you’re ordering online, check out bookshop.org.

 

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