Femme On

In this episode of Active Activism, Tonya speaks with author and speaker Sheryl Green about her journey into activism, speaking about how animal rescue pulled her out of depression and how to ensure you maintain boundaries when being an activist. She also shares how advocacy has influenced her writing and how a plane journey alone with her thoughts helped her outline her new book, You Had Me At No: How Setting Healthy Boundaries Helps You Banish Burnout, Repair Relationships, and Save Your Sanity.

Find out more about Sheryl and her work on her website: https://www.sherylgreenspeaks.com/

Follow Sheryl on:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherylgreenspeaks/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherylgreen/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sherylgreenspeaks

Find out more about organisations that Sheryl supports:

Unshakeable: https://unshakeable.org/

Vegas Pet Rescue: https://www.vegaspetrescueproject.com/

Foster Kinship: https://www.fosterkinship.org/

In this episode of Femme On Creatives, author Kuchenga Shenjé speaks to Tonya about Bohemian life, colonization of the mind, the value of Virgos, and how she went about slipping truth into fiction for her debut novel The Library Thief.

Kuchenga's Links:

Website: https://kuchenga.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kuchenga

Buy The Library Thief:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-library-thief-kuchenga-shenj/1144095064

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-library-thief/kuchenga-shenj/9781408726846

Join us on #IWD25 as we speak with the amazing Dena Moes RN CNM about her new book, It's Your Body: The Young Woman's Guide to Empowered Sexual Health.

Dena is a nurse-midwife with 26 years' experience in reproductive health and her book fills information gaps on all things contraception, sexual health and abortion, for teens and young adults in Trump's America.

We discuss how Dena's book is an essential resource for all everyone, but mostly to help young women make decisions about their bodies, their fertility, and their lives. It really is an incredible chat. Dena is inspiring, funny, and empathetic.

Fins out more about Dena and her incredible book and work: https://itsyourbody.net/

In honour of the release of Onyx Storm, Literature for Life is coming out early! Yes, listen to Jess, Brigitte and Ria discuss the second book in The Empyrean, Iron Flame. They talk shadow daddies (of course), friendship and a couple of predictions for Onyx Storm. Come and have fun with the Thirsty Three!

Poetry Theatre is back! And what an episode.

Ada speaks with Chelsey Pippin Mizzi, a tarot skeptic turned professional tarot reader and creativity consultant about her book Tarot for Creativity: A Guide to IgnitingYour Creative Practice (Chronicle, October 1, 2024) is the new guidebook for generating creative intuition, generating anew, and a new way to get unstuck.

They discuss using the tarot to navigate seasons in our creative lives (from The Wands’ representing passionate new ideas, to The Swords’ capturing stretches of insecurity and struggle with our work), how to harness the tarot as a tool to plan for the seasons of your creative life, and why a tarot ritual can help build and sustain a creative practice.

Find out more about Chelsey:

Instagram: http://instagram.com/pipcardstarot
Website: https://www.chelseypippin.com/

Alyson and Ria speak with Jo-Ann Finkelstein, PhD, about her book Sexism and Sensibility. Jo-Ann shares how she intended to write a book for girls and young women but instead ended up writing a parenting book, and her hope that the book would help heal everyone who reads it. They discuss how Sexism and Sensibility wasn't written to shame parents and how Jo-Ann shares her own experiences throughout the book.

Find out more about Jo-Ann:

Website: https://www.joannfinkelstein.com/
Substack: https://joannfinkelstein.substack.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joannfinkelstein.phd/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086974203277

Thanks for listening to our little podcast, we appreciate you all!

In Never Cross a Highlander, author Lisa Rayne manages to seamlessly weave between topics like African gods and Christianity, slavery and scandalous sex, while teaching readers a forgotten history and still offering them a great happily-ever-after love story. 

This episode of Femme On Creatives reveals the way the universe guided Lisa to start a writing career, what prompted her to focus her story on a Black Highlander, and how she finds her way out of research rabbit holes.

Lisa's Links

Website: https://lisarayne.com
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/26aee0cd3b58/author-lisa-rayne-newsletter-signup
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorrayne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorlisarayne
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorrayne
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14157975.Lisa_Rayne

Buy Lisa's Books
Never Cross a Highlander: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Cross-Highlander-Lisa-Rayne/dp/B0CCCX5BD7
Untamed Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5RCCKR4

Ria and Alyson sit down with the insightful, funny and awesome Celeste Davis to discuss her substack article The men who like women and the men who don't. Yes we can tell.

Based on an essay by Anne Helen Peterson called A Unified Theory of Glen Powell, we have a interesting discussion about men in media, how the patriarchy prioritises male-centred media, how famous women are held to different standards to famous men,  and Taylor Swift!

Tonya speaks with literary agent Cole Lanahan about her devotion to veterans, how her interest in dogs inspired her advocacy, and the ways her work as a literary agent allows her to flex her activist muscles.

Links for Cole Lanahan:
https://gotyoursixsupportdogs.org
https://x.com/LanahanCole
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/cole-lanahan/

Jess gets worked up about naked chests in The Merry Gentlemen, whilst Ria is convinced that the FMC is way too good for Chad Michael Murray. Listen as they discuss Netflix Christmas film, The Merry Gentlemen and slowly lose their minds.