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A Feminist Coming-of-Age That’s Quiet, Powerful and Unforgettable

Marianna Marlowe’s Portrait of a Feminist isn’t your typical feminist memoir. It doesn’t shout its message or come armed with statistics and slogans. Instead, it invites you into the quiet, powerful moments that shaped one woman’s identity across years, continents and cultures. Told in a series of beautifully written personal essays that…
Kelsey Hall
June 23, 2025
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8 Books That Prove Daddy Issues Make Great Literature

We all have baggage — but some of us have a full matching set labeled Dad. Whether he was absent, overbearing or just emotionally unavailable, the father figure looms large in literature. These eight books dive headfirst into the complicated, messy, sometimes tender, but often painful relationships we have with…
Kelsey Hall
June 12, 2025
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Transformative Memoir of Loss and Psychedelic Healing

In Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, Alexis Leigh embarks on a deeply personal and transformational journey, weaving together grief, self-discovery and spiritual awakening. Through raw and poetic storytelling, Leigh shares how immense loss, psychedelic experiences and the process of feeling everything led her to profound realizations about life, love…
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May 20, 2025
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Where Grief Meets Grace on the Road to Understanding

Kathleen Somers' Barely Visible: Mothering a Son Through His Misunderstood Autism is a deeply moving memoir that chronicles one mother’s emotional journey through grief, motherhood and the challenges of raising a neurodivergent child. With unflinching honesty, Somers invites readers into the most intimate corners of her life, offering a powerful story of…
Kelsey Hall
April 21, 2025
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10 Memoirs of Trans Women Making History

This Women’s History Month, let’s not forget the scope of womanhood. For a long time, the only women whose stories were told were straight, white women — but not anymore! In light of the current wave of transphobia sweeping the nation, I wanted to celebrate the importance and raw beauty…
Katie Bloomer
March 14, 2025
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Balancing Humor and Heart in Complicated Family Dramas

Harold Phifer’s My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift is a refreshingly honest, darkly humorous, and unexpectedly heartfelt memoir that masterfully balances comedy and introspection. With sharp wit and a candid narrative style, Phifer takes readers on a journey through his complicated past, shaped by the formidable presence of…
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March 11, 2025