Reading romance as a feminist act

If you like any of our 5 chosen books, you might enjoy these romance novels:

• Forbidden

  • Tempest by Beverly Jenkins​

  • Through the Storm by Beverly Jenkins

• The Kiss Quotient

  • Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade​

  • Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

• An Island Princess Starts a Scandal

  • Silver Silence by Nalini Singh​

  • A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole

• Payback’s a Witch

  • Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake​

  • A Jingle Bell Mistake by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

• Recipe for Persuasion

  • Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma​

  • Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur

 

Other media that touches on the topics of our Conversation with Books discussion:

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Podcasts

• Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal, and Society

  • Voodoo & Vodou

  • Sarah Baartman: A Life on Show

  • Nzinga: Warrior Queen Who Fought Colonialism

  • Forbidden Books

  • Black Victorians

  • Black Georgians

  • Gothic Fiction

  • The Dark History of BMI & Fatphobia

  • Who was Lilith? The Semen-Stealing First Wife of Adam

• Material Girls [examining pop culture through critical theory]

  • Fourth Wing x the Author Function

  • Bridgerton x Reading the Romance with Vanessa Zoltan

• The Great Women Artists with Katy Hessel

  • Bonus episode: Witches in Art

  • Cat Bohannon on the female body

  • Elif Shafak on storytelling in art

  • Marina Warner on Eve, Lilith, Athena, Medusa
     

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Videos, TV and music

• Juneteenth Book Fest 2020-YouTube

• Everything you think you know about romance novels is wrong-TEDxGroningen YouTube

• How to Build a Sex Room- Netflix

• Crash Landing on You- Netflix

• Mrs. America- Hulu

• Janelle Monae’s Cindy Mayweather albums: Metropolis, ArchAndroid, Electric Lady

• Taylor Swift’s Reputation album

• Chappell Roan’s song “Love Me Anyway”

 

Graphic novels​

• Always Never by Jordi Lafebre

• Bingo Love by Tee Franklin

• Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

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Nonfiction books

• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

• All about love by bell hooks 

• Black Love Matters, ed. Jessica P. Pryde

• Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski

• Disability Intimacy, ed. Alice Wong

• Feel It All by Casey Tanner

• Love in a F*cked-up World by Dean Spade

• Pleasure Activism, ed. adrienne maree brown

• Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sharronda J. Brown

• Want, ed. Gillian Anderson​

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