Graphic Novels & Black Feminists

Four Graphic Novels for 2024 (0:22) Looking for a graphic novel to pick up? In this segment Rah shares four graphic novels that are making their way onto shelves in 2024.    Recommended in this segment:  Freshman Year by Sarah Mai Tender by Beth Hetland Full of Myself by Siobhán Gallagher Mothballs by Sole Otero  Black Feminists Who Helped Me Unlearn My White Feminism (8:42) As a white woman raised in a white community, Renee’s feminism wasn’t very intersectional until she got to grad school. In this segment, she shares some of the key Black feminist writers who helped her unlearn her white feminism.   Recommended in this segment: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde Ain’t I A Woman by bell hooks Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba Unapologetic by Charlene A. Carruthers White Feminism by Koa Beck Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown Do Better by Rachel Ricketts Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey   Podcast episodes mentioned: Morgan Jerkins + ReneeMorgan Jerkins + NataliaKoa Beck + Renee Rachel Ricketts + Renee Support this episode’s hosts Follow Rah: Instagram // TikTok // The StoryGraph Follow Renee: Instagram // The StoryGraph   Today’s episode is sponsored by Blessed Water by Margot Douaihy, out March 12 from Gillian Flynn Books. Get your copy today!   Get our weekly round-up of blog and podcast content delivered directly to your inbox every Friday here.   Check out our online community here!    This episode was edited and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.   Original music by @iam.onyxrose   Learn more about Feminist Book Club on our website, sign up for our emails, shop our Bookshop.org recommendations, and follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest.