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The first book club selection for June is “Tender is the Flesh” by Augustina Bazterrica. This episode contains heavy spoilers!
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Sources for this episode:
Background on the author & the book:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/i-have-always-believed-that-in-our-capitalist-consumerist-society-we-devour-each-other-1.4179631
Factory farming:
https://animalequality.org/blog/2022/10/14/factory-farming-facts/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/factory-farms-provide-abundant-food-but-environment-suffers
https://www.ecowatch.com/what-is-factory-farming.html
Source about Josef Mengle:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/josef-mengele
Source about Kuru (disease from cannibalism):
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001379.htm
Source about cases of cannibalism:
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/07/7-historical-cases-of-cannibalism_partner/

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The second book club selection this month is ‘Mad Honey’ by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Heavy spoilers to come so if you haven’t read this book yet, “buzz off” till you have!
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Sources for this episode:
UCLA study:
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/

US 2015 Transgender Survey:
https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf

Interview with Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan:
https://www.bookbub.com/blog/jodi-picoult-jennifer-Finney-boylan-interview

Background on how ‘Mad Honey’ came to be:

https://www.pressherald.com/2022/10/30/jennifer-finney-boylans-new-novel-with-jodi-picoult-is-literally-a-dream-come-true/

Violence against the Transgender community statistics:

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/11/18/i-just-try-make-it-home-safe/violence-and-human-rights-transgender-people-united

Article on fatal violence against the Transgender & Non-binary community in 2023:

https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-transgender-and-nonbinary-community-in-2023?utm_medium=ads&utm_source=GoogleSearch&utm_content=HateCrimes-AntiLGBTQHateCrimes&utm_campaign=GoogleGrant&utm_source=GS&utm_medium=AD&utm_campaign=BPI-HRC-Grant&utm_content=607605192950&utm_term=trans%20hate%20crimes&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtsCgBhDEARIsAE7RYh1YHytarbO9c5dSk4Rp2qmt5WquDnYX_OAtU6-NBAAXb4yobx5IyzIaAnkKEALw_wcB

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This bonus episode is a spoiler free, page-to-screen review of ‘The Woman in the Window’ by A.J. Finn.

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Ending the stigma campaigns you can donate to now:
https://stampoutstigma.com/
https://makeitok.org/

Sources:
The Independent article:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/woman-in-the-window-dan-mallory-b1847611.html
The Guardian article:
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/05/bestselling-author-of-the-woman-at-the-window-lied-about-having-cancer
Article from Psychiatry.org about mental health stigma:
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/stigma-and-discrimination
The New Yorker Article:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/a-suspense-novelists-trail-of-deceptions

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The first book we are covering is ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Heavy spoilers to come!
Source for article “Taylor Jenkins Reid is back… with her BS”:
https://www.feministbookclub.com/taylor-jenkins-reid-is-back-with-her-bs/
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Look out for our first episode releasing on May 1st! 
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