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Black Women’s History Week 2024
Celebrate Black Women’s History Week, Created by @feministajones, with us! it’s a week long commemoration of the accomplishments and personhood of Black women held between February, Black History Month, and March, Women’s History Month. →
Author Feature: Raquel Willis
Author Raquel Willis is sharing her journey in activism and self-discovery as a Black trans woman through her debut memoir, The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation. FEMINIST sat down with Willis to learn more about her inspiring journey towards collective liberation.
Author feature: Clara Burstrom
Clara Burstom is a Canadian author who is raising awareness about sexual violence through her recent memoir, The Six Percent: A Memoir on the Aftermath of Violence. By sharing her own experience with domestic violence, Burstrom sheds light on re-victimization and trauma in the justice system and explores why only 6% of survivors report to the police in Canada.
Founder Feature: Anina von Haeften - Farm to People
“Empowering our community with transparency about food sources has always been a core value for us. We believe in providing our customers with valuable insights into the origins of their food, enabling them to make informed choices about where they invest their food dollars.” - Farm to People
Latina artist feature: Angie Quintanilla Coates
Angie Quintanilla Coates is a self-taught artist and illustrator whose bold and colorful designs bring the same vibrancy to an upcycled Listerine bottle that they do to a pair of Dr. Martens. Her art often juxtaposes a bright and cheery color palette with earnest socio-political statements in ways that have caught the eyes of the Human Rights Campaign and the United Nations.
Author Feature: Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah
Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah is an author, designer, educator, and founder of Making the Body a Home, an e-learning platform with resources for those seeking healing from racial trauma.
Author Feature: Emily Ladau
Emily Ladau is a passionate disability rights activist, writer, storyteller, and digital communications consultant whose career began at the age of 10, when she appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street to educate children about her life with a physical disability.
AUTHOR FEATURE: Becca Rea-Tucker
Becca Rea-Tucker is a baker and pro-abortion activist with a passion for mixing sugar + strong opinions. She likes destigmatizing abortion, using baked goods as an artistic medium, talking about feelings, and all butter pie crust. She is the author of choose-your-own-adventure cookbook Baking by Feel, and publishes a weekly Substack newsletter called A Little Something Sweet. She lives in Austin, TX with her partner Rhys and very good dog Otie.
AUTHOR FEATURE: Melissa Cristina Márquez
Melissa Márquez is a marine science education expert, currently finishing her doctoral degree at Curtin University. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Mexico, Melissa has worked at the forefront of marine science education and communication for over a decade, hard at work combatting the misinformation that's rampant in ecological fields — and paving the way for Latina women like her in science.
Melissa’s picture book, Mother of Sharks (Madre de los Tiburones) is set to be published in May 2023 by Penguin Random House.
Author Feature: Aja Barber
Aja Barber, writer, stylist, and consultant, work aims to tackle the ideas behind privilege, wealth inequality, racism, feminism, colonialism and how to fix the fashion industry with all these things in mind.
Aja’s new book, Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism, is a true testament to this mission as it explores the intersections of sustainability and the fashion landscape.
Author Feature: Lara Parker
Lara Parker is a writer, editor, and author of Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics. She began writing in college around the time of her diagnosis with endometriosis and “hasn’t stopped writing about her vagina since.”
Black Women’s History Week 2023
Celebrate Black Women’s History Week, Created by @feministajones, with us! it’s a week long commemoration of the accomplishments and personhood of Black women held between February, Black History Month, and March, Women’s History Month. →
Author Feature: Sarah Akinterinwa
Sarah Akinterinwa, is a British cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. Her work explores dating, relationships, identity, politics, and navigating adult life as a young woman of color. We discussed her latest book, ‘Why You'll Never Find the One And Why It Doesn't Matter.’
Feminist Author Feature: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is an award-winning Ghanaian-American researcher, entrepreneur, and writer. Her new book, The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System, is the first collection to exclusively feature Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. She graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2019 with a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics and a minor in Economics. Currently, she is a graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics. Her advocacy, research, and commentary are featured widely by media outlets such as Bloomberg, NPR, Teen Vogue, Slate, and The New York Times.