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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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Feminist Book Club: May 2024

Join us on Wednesday, May 15 at 6pm for a discussion about our next book:

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

“Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning.”

The book is available in hardcopy and ebook. If you’re buying the book, we encourage you to go to an independent bookstore. Bookshop.org is a great option for ordering only and supporting independent bookstores.

We look forward to seeing you on May 15! This meeting will be virtual only.

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Feminist Book Club: April 2024

Feminist Book Club is reading How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair this month. Join us!

“Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about.”

We’ll meet at @poincianapaperpress, 12 Parkgate Road, on Wednesday, April 17 at 6pm EDT to talk about How to Say Babylon. You can also join us virtually. Be sure to register at tiny.cc/fbc2024 to get updates.

More than two weeks left to get it and read it! It’s available as an ebook and audiobook in addition to print. There’s a copy in the library at Poinciana Paper Press, so you can arrange a time to drop by and enjoy the book and the space.

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Feminist Book Club: March 2024

We’re looking forward to discussing Etaf Rum’s Evil Eye with you on Wednesday at 6pm EDT! Our meeting is entirely virtual this time, so be sure to register if you haven’t already.

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What freedom was Yara was looking for?
How was she like and unlike her mother?
What will her daughters be like?
How was her Palestinian identity central to the plot?

So much to talk about! Join the discussion.

Don’t have the book? Get ready for April. We’re reading How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair.

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Feminist Book Club: February 2024

We’re reading Citizen by Claudia Rankine and Blind Days by Bahamian Chinaka Strachan for February’s Feminist Book Club.

Blind Days is available for purchase at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas. You can also read both books in the library at Poinciana Paper Press.

Join us February 21 at 6pm EST for the discussion! Attend in person at Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road, or virtually.

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Feminist Book Club: November 2023

Our November read is Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. The book follows multiple Black women’s experiences in Britain, exploring the intersections of identity and the legacy of British colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean.

Join us for another thoughtful gathering Thursday November 16, 6pm at @poincianapaperpress , 12 Parkgate Road.

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