ex libris

"and i used to sleep with my books in piles all around my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always the onl...

I made a book review zine last fall (as an alternative to my usual strategy of luring people to my house, plying them with alcohol, and send...

On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays by Iris Marion Young Young's book reacts to phenomenology,...

The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt Ostensibly a guide to being non-monogamous in a posi way, this book is actually mor...

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy I tend to think of Marge Piercy as writing stealth feminist novels ... a lot of her books are desc...

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi and Maus by Art Spiegelman I tried to do separate reviews of these two, but they hav...

Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn The highlight of this book is quite possibly Loretta Lynn's attempt to use her folksy, hillbil...

The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico by Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer I've always really dug the aesthetics o...

The Garden of Vegan and How It All Vegan by Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard These are two rad vegan cookbooks made by two rad, tattooed vegan...

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan Jane was, as the title says, an underground feminist...

Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask by Jim Munroe A guy who can turn into a fly and his girlfriend who can make things disappear team up...

The Way We Civilise by Rosalind Kidd This book explores treatment of Australian aboriginal people by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. I...

The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation by Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth A really interesting history of our percep...

I'm all about biography and autobiography because I think it's one of the most interesting ways to learn history. Although what you...