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SOUTH OF NOWHERE | 3.14 “Past, Present and Future”

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South of Nowhere (2005-2008). Peak 2000s fashion.

@lgbtqcreatorscreator bingo - throwback

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Title: Sleepover

Rating: PG

Director: Joe Nussbaum

Cast: Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Jane Lynch, Sam Huntington, Sara Paxton, Brie Larson, Scout Taylor-Compton, Douglas Smith, Steve Carell, Jeff Garlin, Sean Faris, Katija Pevec, Kallie Flynn Childress, Evan Peters, Hunter Parrish, Eileen April Boylan, Shane Hunter

Release year: 2004

Genres: comedy, adventure

Blurb: As their first year of high school looms ahead, best friends Julie, Hannah, Yancy, and Farrah have one last summer sleepover...little do they know they're about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Desperate to shed their nerdy status, they take part in a night-long scavenger hunt that pits them against their popular arch-rivals. Everything under the sun goes on, from taking Yancy's father's car to sneaking into nightclubs.

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9-1-1 REACTION

This reaction is for the season 6, fourth episode "Animal Instincts" which originally aired on October 10, 2022. The episode was written by Stacey R. Rose and directed by Michael Medico. Spoilers ahead!

After last week's emotional whirlwind of an episode, we enter into calmer waters with this week's "Animal Instincts". Our three main storylines focus on Buck, Hen, and Eddie. I will tackle each storyline while also covering each of the emergencies featured in this episode. Let's start with the Great Tree Disaster. 

We begin the episode with a very bored, very thirsty park ranger named Benny Phelps (Connor Tillman) as he spies on a pair of ornithologists. While pretending to narrate nature documentary, Benny appears smitten with the female bird watcher Cassandra (Eileen Boylan) while being dismissive of her partner Gilbert (JM Longoria). The pair discover a fallen tree and Gilbert gets the bright idea to stand in the giant hole the tree used to occupy. While Benny looks on via a pair of binoculars, the tree seemingly rises up and crushes Gilbert. Then we get, in the words of James A. Janisse, a title card. 

When the 118 arrive at the scene, Benny explains that a tree has fallen on the victim though not in the way they are probably thinking. He then describes this pretty fascinating phenomenon where fallen trees can be pulled back into an upright position by their still intact roots. With Hen still in charge, the 118 spring into action and are able sever the remaining roots of the tree which allows it to fall over. Chimney and Eddie go to work accessing Gilbert's energy while a panicked Cassandra watches on. They are able to get a pulse which means Gilbert can be transported to the nearest hospital. Benny offers to give Cassandra a ride to the hospital in hopes of asking her out on a date but his plans fail miserably when she calls him out for trying to get her number after her brother almost died.

Let's talk about Eddie! We get a scene between our favorite firefighter hottie and Christopher. I cannot get over how grown up Chris looks and sounds. I can't help but remember when he was first introduced in season 2. Our 9-1-1 kiddos are growing up y'all and I can't deal! Anywho, Eddie gets a call from Chris's school and is informed that our dear, sweet Christopher Diaz is ... gasp ... skipping out on science club. In a surprising move, Eddie reaches out to his dad Ramon (George Delhoyo) to get some fatherly advice. I'm so used to Eddie always going to Buck or even Carla whenever the issue revolves around Christopher but it was nice seeing him seek out his dad, especially since their relationship has been super combative over the last several years. This is some major growth on both their parts and I'm happy to see it!

Eddie is very protective of Christopher because he knows how the world can be and Ramon suggests that perhaps he is overprotective in response to Ramon not being protective enough. Because he wasn't around as much when Eddie was growing up, this forced Eddie to grow up a lot faster than he should have. Eddie's way of coping with that is to show up extra for his son. 

When Eddie finally confronts Christopher about his acting out, Christopher calls him a jerk. Eddie does a great job of letting Christopher know that raising his voice is not appropriate and will not be tolerated while also acknowledging Christopher's feelings. This is some A-plus parenting on the part of Eddie Diaz. Raising a preteen can't be easy and he is having to go it alone. He tells Christopher that he loves him and that he will always feel the need to protect him. He also tells him that he will try to give him more freedom ... when his punishment is over. Great job, Eddie!

Our second emergency of the night involves a drunk driver who nearly mowed over a bicyclist. While Eddie assesses the bike rider's injuries, Chimney checks out the driver of the car who is passed out in the driver's seat. Chimney attempts to open the driver's side door but it won't bulge so he climbs into the passenger's side to check the driver. The driver becomes conscious and immediately goes into flight mode. He drives off in his wrecked vehicle with Chimney in tow. Buck goes into fight mode and takes off after them on a bicycle. When I saw this scene in the previews for the episode, I thought it was going to be super serious, but it's played for laughs. Watching Buck bike after a car that's easily going 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood is quite comical. Poor Chimney must've been super traumatized during all of this because it was very reminiscent of when he crashed in season one. In true Buck fashion, he stands in front of the speeding car which causes the driver to smash his foot on the brakes. When the driver asks Chimney about what happens next, Chimney informs him that he will be taken to the hospital to be checked out ... and then to jail. 

Let's talk about Hen! Hen is still serving as the interim captain of the 118 until Bobby returns from Florida. Hen is happy to hand her captain duties back over to Bobby who assures her that he's heard nothing but great things about her leadership in his absence. Bobby then addresses the huge elephant in the room which is Hen failing out of medical school. He tells her that he got a call from Karen who basically went off on him for putting her in charge of the 118 which played a major role in her failing her year two test. Hen assures Bobby that it's not his fault - it's hers. He offers to make some phone calls but Hen tells him that she doesn't think there's anything either of them can do. Bobby suggests she take some time off because she has been going nonstop for so long. Hen worries that she won't know what to do with having time off and Bobby tells her to do nothing. I love Bobby. He is such a great boss and an even better friend and father-figure to those in his care. 

We then see a montage of Hen cleaning her place which is clearly already clean. She is so thrilled when Buck stops by unannounced. The two of them vent their issues and let me just say, I get that the fandom (or the most vocal part of the fandom) is team Buddie (Buck and Eddie) but I have always found it interesting that when Buck needs wisdom and understanding, he goes to Hen or Maddie or Bobby - rarely Eddie. Hen often takes a big sister role when it comes to Buck much like Bobby and Athena are his parental figures. After she councils him on his issues, it's her turn. I like that we get Buck's perspective because at the end of the day, Buck is a fiercely loyal friend and such a pure heart and he has a way of getting to the root of an issue. When he tells Hen that she would make a great doctor, it's the wake up call that she needs to put her into fight mode. Seriously, this episode could be called Flight or Fight but I believe we already had that as an episode title.

Hen seeks out Dr. Simmons (Gayla Johnson) and pleads her case. She tells her that she believes she will make a great doctor and that she deserves a second chance. Dr. Simmons offers to give her a second chance and just like that, Henrietta Wilson is back on the path towards becoming a doctor. During this moment in the episode, my mom said that sometimes it's really just as simple as asking. Worst-case scenario is that the person you ask will say 'no'. If Hen had just accepted defeat and abandoned her dreams of becoming a doctor, she would've never known there was a second chance waiting for her. I'm so happy that this happened because I think Hen would be such a great doctor. Plus, I'm secretly hoping that we get a Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Tim Minear medical drama featuring Hen in the future. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Our next emergency was definitely the most intense one of the episode. We see a little girl named Clairabelle (Keslee Blalock) and her mother Lourdes (Jazmin Caratini) in their apartment entertaining each other. When Lourdes' ex (and Clairabelle's father) Stephen shows up unannounced and demanding entry to the apartment, Lourdes sends her daughter into her bedroom and tells her to execute the plan they've come up with. Clairabelle takes direction well and immediately goes into her bedroom and deadbolts the door. She looks under her bed for a cell phone in a duffel bag and she uses it to dial 9-1-1.

Maddie gets the call and instructs Clairabelle to get inside the closet. In a scene very similar to the movie Taken, Maddie tearfully tells the little girl that if her father does get into the room, he will take her, and that she will need to go with him willingly. Clairabelle doesn't want to leave her mother behind but she agrees to what Maddie says. Stephen does manage to get inside the room and he finds Clairabelle. He tries to take her out of the apartment but Clairabelle fights back. She kicks him in the crotch which allows her enough time to leave the apartment. When Stephen goes to chase after her, the police are standing outside waiting to apprehend him. Man, this was a good scene!

Maddie visits a battered and beaten Lourdes in the hospital and tells her that she has found an immigration lawyer (Nina Millin) who specializes in helping women who are in her position. When Lourdes asks Maddie why she cares so much about their situation, Maddie tells her that she's been where she's been, which no truer thing has been said on this show. Speaking of Fight or Flight, Fight or Flight is the name of the season 2 episode where Maddie is confronted by her own estranged husband Doug. Let's talk about Buck! Our beloved Buckaroo is on a mission to find meaning and purpose and enlightenment. He tells Maddie that he is going to change his perspective on his situation by saying 'yes' more to things.

This new perspective is immediately put to the test when Buck meets up with an old friend named Connor (Colin McCalla) and his wife (Chelsea Kane). While having lunch together, the couple divulge their difficulties with conceiving. Connor admits that while he had initially assumed his wife was the one having issues, it is actually him. The couple then ask Buck if they would be a sperm donor. Let me tell you - I did NOT see this coming. When this scene played in the episode, I looked over to my mom and asked her if she remembered the episode of Sex and the City where two gay male acquaintences of Carrie Bradshaw ask her to donate one of their eggs for surrogacy. Thankfully this episode handles this storyline with way more care than SATC did. 

Buck, like us, is perplexed by this request. What I like most is that Buck really takes time to think about it. He doesn't laugh it off. He doesn't get upset or offended. Buck sees his friend and his friend's wife and their inability to have a child and he treats things with such great care. Buck talks to Connor and asks why him? Why not go to a sperm bank where they can find a donor with perfect genes. Someone super intelligent or who has brown hair and blue eyes. Connor tells Buck that those qualities are superficial. He and his wife want their child to have a good heart and that's why they asked Buck. No one has a bigger heart than Evan "Buck" Buckley. Watching Buck hear this from Connor is a reminder that while Buck is always championing those he loves, he doesn't always get that same energy back for those very same people. Hearing that he has a good heart is super validating to him. 

Perhaps the best scene of the episode is when Buck goes to Hen. He opens up to her about his friend's request and Hen is such a great reasonable wall for Buck to bounce his thoughts off of. After hearing the emotional appeal from Connor, Hen offers him a sobering dose of reality. Hen reminds Buck that if he does become Connor and his wife's sperm donor, he will effectively be handing over his rights of being a father to the kid. Buck will be a donor, not a dad. This is the splash of water in the face that Buck needs so that he can have a more balanced view of the situation. Buck does end up meeting with Connor and his wife and tells them both that while he still isn't sure what he wants in life, he sees that are certain about what they want. Buck decides to say 'yes' and tells them that he will be their sperm donor.

Our final emergency of the episode is pretty ... wild. The 118 are called out to a fraternity and sorority party and their patient turns out to be a little ole puppy dog named Hoover who accidentally ate a pill he found on the floor. The dog is unresponsive much to the concern of quite a few drunk and high Greek life members, and when it's suggested that NARCAN be administered to the dog, the 118 call Hen who is day drinking with Buck and she helps them figure out the appropriate amount of the drug to give the dog. Chimney administers the dose and the dog springs back to life. The frat bros and sorority sisters are happy that Hoover is alive and okay but Bobby takes the dog because clearly living in a fraternity or sorority house isn't the best thing for him.

Speaking of Bobby, we end the episode with Athena returning home from Florida. She talks about visiting Harry, Michael, and David. I found this so amusing because I find it very intriguing that the show is acknowledging characters that can't technically appear on-screen this season because of the actors who play them. Bobby was acting a bit odd when Athena got home because I'm super worried about him relapsing, a part of me wondered if he kept the bottle of pills from the frat house. Well, thankfully that wasn't the case. The reason Bobby is acting a bit strange is because he kept Hoover! Bobby and Athena have a dog! That was such an exciting reveal, especially since they're empty nesters at the moment. Bobby clearly is more into having a dog than Athena is but because Athena values his happiness she seems okay with Hoover being a part of their family.

Overall, this episode was pretty incredible. I've alluded to me being disappointed with the beginning of season 5. There were just so many things going on behind the scenes that the show for the first half of the season didn't feel like the show I know and loved. This season, so far, feels like the 9-1-1 I fell in love with back in season one. I love that we're getting character development and growth. Eddie is discovering what it's like parenting a teenager. Hen is about to be given a second chance at her dream. Buck is still on a journey of self-discovery. Bobby and Athena are learning what it means to be empty nesters while looking out for Athena's elderly parents. On top of that, the emergency scenes are still pretty solid. I can't wait to see what happens next for our beloved characters! Until next time ...

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Mammoth List of Feminist/Girl Power Books (200 + Books)

Lists of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu, Montana Kane (Translator)

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics by Jason Porath

Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History by Kate Schatz

Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism by Robin Cross & Rosalind Miles

Women Who Dared: 52 Stories of Fearless Daredevils, Adventurers, and Rebels by Linda Skeers & Livi Gosling 

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

The Warrior Queens by Antonia Fraser

Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World by Jane Yolen

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton 

Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World by Laura Barcella

Samurai Women 1184–1877 by Stephen Turnbull

A Black Woman Did That by Malaika Adero

Tales from Behind the Window by Edanur Kuntman

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall

Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch

Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History by Blair Imani

Individual and Group Portraits of Real, Amazing Women Throughout History

Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga

The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorised London by Brian McDonald

Women Against the Raj: The Rani of Jhansi Regiment by Joyce Chapman Lebra

Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus

The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Women of WWII (Non-Fiction)

Women Heroes of World War II: 26 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Resistance, and Rescue by Kathryn J. Atwood

Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII by Sally Deng

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation)

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American Wacs Stationed Overseas During World War II by Brenda L. Moore

Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisters and Spies: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne by Susan Ottaway

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

The White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy

Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion by Susan Travers & Wendy Holden

Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp by Mary Cronk Farrell

Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth P. McIntosh

Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu

Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos by Judy Batalion

Night Witches: The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles

The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II by Pamela Jain Dell

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein

A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II by Anne Noggle

Avenging Angels: The Young Women of the Soviet Union's WWII Sniper Corps by Lyuba Vinogradova

The Women of WWII (Fiction)

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

Night Witches by Kathryn Lasky

Night Witches by Mirren Hogan

Night Witch by S.J. McCormack

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan

The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff

Code Name Verity series by Elizabeth Wein

Front Lines trilogy by Michael Grant

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

All-Girl Teams (Fiction)

The Seafire trilogy by Natalie C. Parker

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost

The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis

The Effigies trilogy by Sarah Raughley

Guardians of the Dawn series by S. Jae-Jones

Wolf-Light by Yaba Badoe

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Burned and Buried by Nino Cipri

This Is What It Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow

The Wild Ones: A Broken Anthem for a Girl Nation by Nafiza Azad

We Rule the Night by Claire Eliza Bartlett

Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu

The Secret Life of Prince Charming by Deb Caletti

Kamikaze Girls by Novala Takemoto, Akemi Wegmüller (Translator)

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry

The Scapegracers by Hannah Abigail Clarke

Sisters in Sanity by Gayle Forman

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl

Hell's Belles series by Sarah MacLean

Jackdaws by Ken Follett

The Farmerettes by Gisela Tobien Sherman

A Sisterhood of Secret Ambitions by Sheena Boekweg

Feminist Retellings

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue

Doomed by Laura Pohl

The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher

The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke

Seven Endless Forests by April Genevieve Tucholke

The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Kate Crackernuts by Katharine M. Briggs

Legendborn series by Tracy Deonn

One for All by Lillie Lainoff

Feminist Dystopian and Horror Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

Women and Girls in Comedy 

Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin

Stand Up, Yumi Chung by Jessica Kim

This Will Be Funny Someday by Katie Henry

Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer

Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliot

Bossypants by Tina Fey

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

The Girl in the Show: Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism by Anna Fields

Trans Women

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

Nemesis series by April Daniels

American Transgirl by Faith DaBrooke

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace

A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett

Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt

George by Alex Gino

The Witch Boy series by Molly Ostertag

Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman by Laura Kate Dale

She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan

An Anthology of Fiction by Trans Women of Color by Ellyn Peña

Wandering Son by Takako Shimura

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Feminist Poetry

Women Are Some Kind of Magic trilogy by Amanda Lovelace

Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty by Nikita Gill

Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters by Nikita Gill

The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill

Feminist Philosophy and Facts

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy by Gerda Lerner

Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Bushra Rehman

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen

The Equality Illusion by Kat Banyard

White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck

Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout & Jenn Abelson

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDinn

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa

Power Shift: The Longest Revolution by Sally Armstrong

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Had It Coming: What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? by Robyn Doolittle

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jody Kantor & Megan Twohey

#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy

Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time by Tanya Lee Stone

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Robin Morgan (Editor)

Girls Make Media by Mary Celeste Kearney

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap by Evelyn McDonnell (Editor)

You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Hollis Robbins (Editor)

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics by Dionne Brand

Other General Girl Power/Feminist Awesomeness

The Edge of Anything by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza

Talk Before Sleep by Elizabeth Berg

The Female of the Species by Mandy McGinnis

Pulp by Robin Talley

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

That Summer by Sarah Dessen

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

American Girls by Alison Umminger

Don't Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories by Alice Walker

Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Sula by Toni Morrison

Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

Rules for Being a Girl by Candace Bushnell & Katie Cotugno

None of the Above by I.W. Gregorio

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis

The House on Olive Street by Robyn Carr

Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

Lady Luck's Map of Vegas by Barbara Samuel 

Fan the Fame by Anna Priemaza

Puddin' by Julie Murphy

A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti

Gravity Brings Me Down by Natale Ghent

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

Don't Tell a Soul by Kirsten Miller

After the Ink Dries by Cassie Gustafson Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough 

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

The Prettiest by Brigit Young

Don't Judge Me by Lisa Schroeder

The Roommate by Rosie Danan

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir by Liz Prince

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan

Heavy Vinyl comic series by Carly Usdin

Please feel free to reblog with more!

[penamerican]

Presenting 7 days on Gender & Power in NYC, with over 150 artists & authors: it’s the return of PEN World Voices. 

Including Jennifer Egan, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Valeria Luiselli, Trevor Noah, Chinelo Okparanta, Vivian Gornick, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Binyavanga Wainaina, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Emily St. John Mandel, Laurie Anderson, Mona Eltahawy, Marlon James, Eileen Myles, Teju Cole, & Min Jin Lee.

[tinasheswifey]

So I’ve been nostalgic af lately and I’m indulging it

I’ve been sitting here watching Degrassi TNG and Instant Star all day and just laughing at how many crushes my closeted lil self had as a teenager 😂 I mean Cassie Steele and Miriam McDonald and Deanna Casaluce and Alexz Johnson and Laura Vandervoort and Cory Lee. Add in my fave, South of Nowhere, and you’ve got Gabrielle Christian and Mandy Musgrave and Eileen Boylan and Marisa Lauren, too. I mean Mandy and Marisa dude omg 😍😍😍

[housingworksbookstore]

This Week at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe!

We’ve got an AMAZING week this week! Come out!

Tuesday, May 2, 6pm - 7pm PEN World Voices Festival:Queer Representation and the Media

Transwoman and political activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, trans author and boxer Thomas Page McBee, poets Eileen Myles and Saeed Jones, and founder/executive director of Women in Media & News Jennifer Pozner discuss the narratives of transgender issues found—or not seen—in the media.

Tuesday, May 2, 7:30pm - 8:30pm PEN World Voices Festival: Gender, Power, and Faith

A discussion about the intersection of LGBTQ rights and faith with Joy Ladin (the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution), Amy Butler (Senior Minister, The Riverside Church), Garrard Conley (author of Boy Erased, about going through “Conversion Therapy” in Arkansas and whose father is a minister), Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenyan author and outspoken LGBTQ activist), moderated by Jennifer Boylan.

Wednesday, May 3, 6pm - 7pm PEN World Voices Festival: Forbidden: Too Liberated

A discussion on the ways women are denied equal opportunities. With Sarah Barmak (Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality), Jill Filipovic (The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness), Mona Eltahawy (Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution), and Sabrina Jones (Our Lady of Birth Control).

Wednesday, May 3, 7:30pm - 8:30pm PEN World Voices Festival: Forbidden: Too Desirous

A discussion on portraying women’s sexuality in fiction with novelists Yewande Omotoso (South Africa), Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria), Malin Persson Giolito (Sweden), and Minae Mizumura (Japan).

Thursday, May 4 #TeachMeYouDid: Celebrating Star Wars Day, National Teacher Appreciation Week, and Movement Leaders

Star Wars Day ("May the 4th be with you") celebrates National Teacher Appreciation Week with an extraordinary evening of storytelling, mentorship, and performances highlighting today’s movement leaders and the next generation of engaged creators and leaders. Brought to you by civic imagination studio, Imagine Better.

Friday, May 5 #OneBookNY Live! A Conversation & Celebration with AMERICANAH

Bim Adewunmi, Naomi Jackson, Ashley C. Ford, Tomi Obaro, and Chinelo Okparanta discuss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, selected for the first ever #OneBookNY initiative, moderated by Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl).Hosted by the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and BuzzFeed Books, with Well-Read Black Girl and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.

Saturday May 6 - Sunday May 7, Monthly 30% Off Sale

30% off the whole store. Members always get an extra 10% off.

This Week’s Store Schedule:

Monday: 9am - 9pm

Tuesday: 9am - 9pm 

Wednesday: 9am - 9pm

Thursday: 9am - 9pm

Friday: 9am - 9pm

Saturday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm

[whogoesthere-cleveland-blog]

The BIG Egg

The Place: The Big Egg

Location: 5107 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland

Susan: The Big Meh(gg)- Please Forgive Them for Their Trespasses. 

Shannon: A place for people to go and eat. 

Overview of The Big Egg

Shannon: What seems to be becoming the trend, I’ve been here once before, but, you, Susan, have not. Which I really don’t get because didn’t you often have the honor of being the last man standing waiting to chauffeur random revelers home from many a’ music venue in the wee hours of every grunge era lost weekend? How you managed to consistently dodge this place, I’ll never know. Then again, a direct quote from their current website and menu might have had something to do with your judiciousness: “More than seven years have passed since Big Egg Family Restaurant closed its doors on the Detroit Shoreway…the Big Egg had developed a loyal following by offering good food on the cheap. Not so abundant was an adherence to standard sanitation practices. After being cited for a number of health violations, the Cleveland Health Department pulled the plug on what was then a Cleveland staple.”  I guess props to the Big Egg for being so transparent? The one time I dined there during their golden (health violation) era was after attending some bizarre performance art piece (I know, I know - a bit redundant to use bizarre and performance art in the same sentence) at Cleveland Public Theater. After being seated at our table, I flipped my pre-set coffee mug over for a late night cup of joe and was surprised to find several pieces of French toast expertly stuffed inside. I guess at least I was able to buy a box of Tagalongs from a table of Girl Scouts who were inexplicably hawking cookies at midnight. Then again, maybe those scouts were just a continuation of the performance art. Who knows? Just part of the mystery of The Big Egg, I guess.

Susan:  Ha! I love that story. The menu referenced “devastating PR in 1997”. Was that because of all the health code violations? I just assumed they found a dead body in the bathroom or perhaps a riot broke out at 3 AM between the club kids and the bike messengers. I mean, the place did have that sort of reputation back in the day. The menu reads more like the New Testament. It’s very long and detailed and yes, they offer up much explanation, acknowledgement of past sins, and then ask for atonement. Yeah, it’s amazing to me that I’d never been here. However, I will say, in the late 90s and early aughts, after a long night of drinking, we would drag our collective asses home to retire for the evening. Wait, no we wouldn’t. We’d just go home and drink more.

(As an aside, I apologize for the blurry photos. It was Daylight Saving Time Sunday and I couldn’t tell if it was me or the camera that was fuzzy and unfocused.)

Anything special about the interior? 

Shannon: The dining area is split up into two rooms with the Northern and Western walls featuring windows - oddly we were seated in the Southeast section near the back vestibule and adjacent to a television set (with bad reception that was playing Turner Classic Movies on mute) even though the place was far from being crowded. The decor was festive and seemed to cover all the major holidays from late 2016 through the Spring 2017: mistletoe and poinsettias, to leprechauns and clovers.

Susan: There was an underlying scent of bleach in the air, which while is typically distasteful, in this setting, I found it oddly reassuring. I think that was a purposeful move by management, like, “See! We’re clean here! So clean that the entire place smells of Clorox! It’s just that clean in here, you see! So very, very clean that your nose hairs will become singed by the scent of chlorine-Now THAT’S clean, I tell ya!!” And don’t attempt to actually watch the TV in there. You will develop cataracts while trying to make out the shadowy forms moving across it. I really feel like they should not have even bothered with that. It would have been fine if it was like a 20 inch black and white Philco Predicta with a dial, but it wasn’t! It was a huge flat screen TV with the worst reception on the planet.   

After being seated, we looked at the menu for a really, really long time: 

Susan: In our defense, as aforementioned, the menu was very long and apologetic. There was like three pages of small font text in the back. How do you not read and analyze that!? I felt like it was our obligation. So while taking our time perusing the menu, we had a laughable succession of servers come up to try to take our order. It was like a magician pulling scarves out of his sleeve. They just kept coming! One after another and never the same person twice! Really, by the sixth server that appeared at our table, I just “LOL-ed”, as the kids say. I still cannot wrap my mind around why The Big Egg employs twenty-seven servers on Sunday morning for a total of about fifteen customers. Lulled into a false sense of security by the bleach fumes, I ordered an omelet with feta and tomatoes, hash browns, and rye toast. The omelet was pretty good and I will say, I truly enjoyed it!  The hash browns, however, were an unnatural rectangle shape. This continues to disturb me when I see it. Maybe I just don’t like square food.

Shannon: I alternated between perusing the menu for poorly scanned representations of entrees that made it seem like Raspberry Zingers was a legitimate breakfast option, and getting distracted by hits from the 1980s (Who Can it be Now, In Cars, C’mon Eileen) pumping through the overhead speakers. Finally, I went with a French toast reboot (this time on a plate instead of in a mug). It’s almost as if that darn Big Egg has made this dish my ‘usual’.

Who Goes There? 

Susan:  Neighborhood types and those longing to reminisce of bygone days when they used to be combative club kids and bike messengers, but now they have a spouse and two disheveled children that refuse to eat anything but pancakes. 

Shannon: Folks who aren’t quite sure where to go.

What philosophical school of thought would be most comfortable at The Big Egg?

Shannon: Absurdism 

Susan: Optimists  

If The Big Egg were a TV show hangout, who would be a regular? 

Susan: “The Man” from “Chico and the Man” 

Shannon: Mike Erhmentraut from Breaking Bad  

Additional thoughts: 

Shannon: The spin fridge was full of Boylan cane sugar artisan Root Beer. I mean what is this, Portland? Speaking of, as I was Googling The Big Egg, I found a Website for a restaurant of the same name that actually is in Portland, and I have to say, it looks kind of better. Here is their Website in case you want to compare and contrast: http://www.thebigegg.com (note how they secured the domain name first). 

Susan: Check out the gum ball machines! You can get three super stale mini Tootsie Rolls for 50 cents!! I keep thinking, who would buy those? Kids don’t really like Tootsie Rolls and if they did, 50 cents is a complete rip off! Especially considering you can get a Hi-Bounce ball for the same price. I mean, c’mon! Is there really a decision to be made here? 

Would you go back?

Shannon: I won’t suggest it, but if someone else does I guess I’d go along. Actually, I take that back. I might go back for the fresh cut fries. 

Susan: Sure. It seems like the perfect place to go after having spent twelve hours in the ER.

Is it a good place to bring Neal in a Baby Bjorn?  

Susan: No-The last thing they need is anymore “devastating PR”. They’re obviously still scarred and recovering from ’97.  

Shannon: No. A camouflage backpack would work better. 

Hours of Operation:Monday through Thursday - 6am - 9pm, Friday and Saturday - Open 24 hours, Sunday until 3pm 

[kritikycz]

Vymítač ďábla - nejslavnější film Williama Friedkina (Francouzská spojka)

Film „Vymítač ďábla“ je známý nejen mezi fanoušky hororů, a to i přesto, že se o hororový snímek skutečně jedná. Jsou zde scény, které budí děs a které diváka donutí zadržet dech nebo přivřít oči. A to všechno proto, že je výrazně potlačena kýčovitost tohoto filmu a do popředí vstupuje síla vyprávěného příběhu a schopnosti tvůrčího týmu. Je to dáno tím, že…- Více na https://www.kritiky.cz/filmove-recenze/retro-filmove-recenze/2019/vymitac-dabla-nejslavnejsi-film-williama-friedkina-francouzska-spojka/

[the-n-tv]

[seraphangel]

[kritikycz]

Vymítač ďábla - nejslavnější horor z 70. let.

Klasika. Co jinak říci, každý fanoušek hororových snímku musí tento film velice dobře znát. Mně samotnému poměrně dlouho unikal (až jsem si říkal, že v tom musí být nějaký vyšší záměr 🙂 ), načež mi doputoval na můj krásný 16 gigabajtový harddisk ve formě prostinkého souboru s magickou koncovkou .avi.- Více na https://www.kritiky.cz/filmove-recenze/retro-filmove-recenze/2019/vymitac-dabla-nejslavnejsi-horor-z-70-let/

[duncandawkins]

aaron from mean girls and kyla from south of nowhere are in this lifetime movie i have on :D