📚💖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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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💖📚 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 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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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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