Maggie and Harmony explore a dystopian California in the 2020s with Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. This book recently made the New York Times bestseller list, in part, because of it's parallels to current day society. Our hosts explore empathy, gendered leadership, guns as a necessity for survival, and the role of faith in society's progression.

In this episode:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/07/13/three-million-more-guns-the-spring-2020-spike-in-firearm-sales/#:~:text=On%20March%2013%2C%20President%20Trump,firearms%20were%20sold%20in%20March.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2013&version=NIV

https://theglowup.theroot.com/it-took-nearly-50-years-but-this-week-octavia-butler-1844956328

What we're reading:

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781538732199

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525620785

Action Resorces:

Wildfire Relief Fund

https://www.calfund.org/wildfire-relief-fund/

"It's 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change"

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/11/688876374/its-2050-and-this-is-how-we-stopped-climate-change

"How You Can Stop Global Warming"

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/how-you-can-stop-global-warming

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/2BlrFIv

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

Maggie and Harmony explore a story published in 1981 this week, "The World's Greatest Fisherman," by Louise Erdrich, which later became the first chapter of her debut novel Love Medicine. The story explores the dynamics of a Chippewa family after one member goes missing. Harmony and Maggie discuss racial dynamics, domestic abuse, feminine solidarity, and the effects of Native American genocide.

In the episode:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-erdrich

https://pen.org/the-worlds-greatest-fisherman/#:~:text=Erdrich%20exploded%20onto%20the%20literary,herself%20is%20an%20enrolled%20member.

What we're reading:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780545139700

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781538732182

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525536291

Resources:

Find out how to help indigenous communities during Covid-19

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200331.659944/full/

Learn more about the Chippewa people

https://www.mnchippewatribe.org/

https://tmchippewa.com/

"How to Support Indigenous Organizers Fighting Coronavirus in Native American Communities"

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/indigenous-organizers-fighting-coronavirus-native-american-communities

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/2BlrFIv

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

Maggie and Harmony kick off season two with their favorite text of 2020, In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado. In this episode, they dive into trauma, healthy relationships, and gendered violence. 

What we're reading:

 Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781538732182 

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

 https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525536291 

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/2BlrFIv

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

This week Maggie and Harmony bring on special guest, Zine Queen Meg to talk about the intersection between art and activism. 

In this episode:

Zine History

https://bit.ly/2CPCWBf

#BoringSelfCare

https://www.instagram.com/makedaisychains/?utm_source=ig_embed

Hungry for a Conspiracy

https://www.etsy.com/listing/171714034/hungry-for-a-conspiracy-conspiracy

Plants Against the Patriarchy

https://etsy.me/31noqe2

RAIX Zine

https://issuu.com/raixzine1

The Tenth

http://thetenthmagazine.com/

True Laurels

http://www.truelaurels.com/read

Article about True Laurels

https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/bookish/laurence-bumey-true-laurels-zine

Passive Voice is For Cowards

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAv9UpUhhlu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

What We're Reading:

Liane Moriarty

https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=Liane+Moriarty

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781338635171

War and Peace

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781400079988

Parable of the Talents

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9781538732199

They Can't Kill Us All

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316312493

Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780745336596

Shades of Milk and Honey

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780765325600

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780545791427

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/2BlrFIv

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

Maggie and Harmony kick off another Bite-Sized Bits decade by exploring "Martha" by Audre Lorde. Lorde, a famous feminist and American writer, is often not talked about enough when it comes to her poetry. "Martha," published in 1970, was her coming out piece. It explores death and rebirth, loss, coming out, and uncertainty as central themes. You can read it for yourself here: http://themirrorpoetry.blogspot.com/2018/08/martha-audre-lorde.html

In this episode:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde

https://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/audre_lorde_2012_3.pdf

https://sites.psu.edu/245spring2015/2015/04/30/audre-lorde-and-a-celebration-through-labels/

What we're reading:

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3679.On_Beauty

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43317482-in-the-dream-house

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85861.Stars_in_My_Pocket_Like_Grains_of_Sand

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by The-Terf-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40651679-what-doesn-t-kill-you-makes-you-blacker

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSf1PciW8-mmvdHlloG1HEUfwtWAsVIPhNz_eQmX5J0/edit?usp=sharing

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

This week Harmony and Maggie celebrate pride by reflecting on marginalized communities and the right for everyone to feel comfortable, safe, and loved in their own skin and identities. They explored two poems, "dear white America" by Danez Smith and "The Company You Keep: a Poem for my Family" by Vita E.

In this episode:

HRC

https://www.hrc.org/resources/violence-against-the-trans-and-gender-non-conforming-community-in-2020

"dear white america"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150542/dear-white-america

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnVW3Lixbw

On the poplar tree:

https://polygrafi.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/strange-fruit-hanging-from-the-poplar-trees-blood-on-the-leaves/

“The Company You Keep: a Poem for my Family”

https://twocpoetry.tumblr.com/post/154811931314/the-company-you-keep-a-poem-for-my-family

Vita E.'s Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO9ZI06PVlcWrI-D3ePSg9w

Where you should donate:

GWORLS

https://linktr.ee/FORTHEGWORLSPARTY

Trans Women of Color Survival Fund

https://www.twocc.us/media/survival/

Black Trans Protestors Emergency Fund

https://twitter.com/BTFAcollective/status/1267853959378731023

The Okra Project

https://www.theokraproject.com/

What We're Reading: 

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

https://bit.ly/30ctEZH

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

https://bit.ly/2XCM8AH

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13214.I_Know_Why_the_Caged_Bird_Sings

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by The TERF-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2.Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/2XCLZgD

To follow our episode schedule go here https://bit.ly/2XF5uW7 You can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

This week Maggie and Harmony read the article "Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us" by Roxane Gay and use the article as a baseline for a discussion on allyship to the Black Lives Matter movement. They also read "For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies," by Courtney Ariel,  "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" by Brit Bennett, and use an excerpt from Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton. In this episode, our hosts, with the help of the aforementioned texts, attempt to tackle white complicity, fragility, and silence and explore anti-racist action.

Links to the texts:

"Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us" by Roxane Gay

https://nyti.ms/2Y7iyCx

"For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies," by Courtney Ariel

https://bit.ly/2BJ3vrn

  "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" by Brit Bennett

https://bit.ly/2Y97Awj

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

https://bit.ly/30hyRQ2

Referenced in the episode:

https://n.pr/30ckGf3

https://wapo.st/3dDfZPi

https://bit.ly/3cDwadZ

https://bit.ly/2ANWBAh

Resource list

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://bit.ly/2XCLZgD

What we're reading:

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

https://bit.ly/30ctEZH

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd 

https://bit.ly/3eUFUC8

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

https://bit.ly/2XCM8AH

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

https://bit.ly/3cGsIiT

They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

https://bit.ly/3dDgtVC

Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, Ercan Ayboga

https://bit.ly/2BJ4HLn

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by TERF-who-must-not-be-named

https://bit.ly/3cLosic

To follow our episode schedule go here https://bit.ly/2XF5uW7 You can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

This week, Maggie and Harmony discuss Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah, a young adult novel about a second-generation Australian-Palestinian girl's choice to wear the hijab.  They dive into identity, belief,  race, microaggressions, healing empathy, and sexuality.

Are you feeling overwhelmed about racial inequality in the U.S.? We are too! Here's some resources we've found useful. If you have any additional resources you'd like to share feel free to email us at [email protected].

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dSf1PciW8-mmvdHlloG1HEUfwtWAsVIPhNz_eQmX5J0/edit?usp=sharing

What we're reading:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace

The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694522-the-witch-s-daughter

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8697507-shades-of-milk-and-honey

Check out our friends at:

The Dark Roast Pod

https://thedarkroastpod.podbean.com/

Re-solved Mysteries Podcast

https://resolvedmysteriespodcast.com/

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

Maggie and Harmony are joined by the magnificent Elena for a discussion on If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim. They discuss women's roles in East Asain society, displacement and isolation, the importance of being selfish,  and intergenerational abuse.

More on intergenerational abuse:

https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/can/impact/long-term-consequences-of-child-abuse-and-neglect/abuse/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4212819/

Resources on Domestic Violence:

https://www.thehotline.org/

https://www.loveisrespect.org/

Resources on child abuse:

https://www.childhelp.org/story-resource-center/child-abuse-education-prevention-resources/

https://preventchildabuse.org/resources/

Resources on suicide prevention:

https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

https://www.sprc.org/

What we're reading:

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9712.Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace

Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic by Alice Hoffman, Lisa Hoffman

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38532428-faerie-knitting

The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694522-the-witch-s-daughter

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5.Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.

Maggie and Harmony, surprise you all with the 1960's Bite-Sized Bits. They analyze the short story "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen. In this episode, they dissect motherhood, privilege, unreliable narrators, and identity.

Read the story here:

https://www.shortstoryproject.com/story/i-stand-here-ironing/?fbclid=IwAR0SoPTdMQv13lDVa1rRobZoxAngkAozr4ADBNQNVruvhOCuFpUhYM8pjss

What We're Reading:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34037113-the-rules-of-magic

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22896.Practical_Magic

To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter  https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at [email protected]. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis.