This piece was cross posted at Comediva When you think of adjectives to describe the President of the United States of America, I bet you five dollars “OBEDIENT” isn’t one of them, right?  Right. Well, it’s not like we needed ANOTHER  reason to prove that electing Michelle Bachmann as President of the United States of [...]

After much discussion, we are excited to announce that we are bringing back #fem2 Twitterchats on Sunday nights! Please join us this Sunday, July 17, at 9 p.m. EST as we honor NWLC’s and Planned Parenthood’s blog carnival, “Birth Control: We’ve Got You Covered,” taking place next week. We look forward to bringing back our Tweetchats [...]

Reading Materials Low Countries, a bilingual anthology by five different editors introduces women’s writing in, the low-lying delta region of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse Rivers from 1200 to 1875. This book is a great source for the study of women’s writing throughout the ages, as well as a great way to learn more about [...]

Hello wonderful readers – we’ve got some awesome news for you today! (drumroll please . . .) Fem2pt0 is embarking on a new, collaborative journey with Comediva! Look out for great stuff on our site from the Comediva team on Thursdays, where we’ll be cross posting some of their side-splitting content that is sure to [...]

Cold Light is the second novel by prize-winning author, Jenn Ashworth. This book was written with the author’s comic noir style. The story is about two teenage girls and one very cold winter in 1997. When Chloe drowns in a frozen pond with her older boyfriend, the community thinks it is just a Romeo and [...]

Reading Materials Claudia Sternbach’s new book, Reading Lips: A memoir of Kisses, is a celebration of the great experience of living and going through a woman’s life. It is not just one story, but also many different stories together in one book. For more information, click here. The book Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan [...]

Reading Materials The book, Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman, describes the life and death of his wife in an intense memoir full of both angry and passionate feelings. Throughout the course of the book, the author moves from the Brooklyn home he shared with his wife to the time before they met to the [...]

Reading Materials: There are some books that force you to step back and think about the decisions in your life, both the good and the bad. When you read the novel In A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz, this is exactly what happens.  The books of Jane Austen guide the author in ways that [...]

Reading Materials Susie Bright, the sex-positive feminist, opened her heart and her life in Big Sex Little Death. We have the opportunity to read her life story and understand how she came to be the person she is today. For more information click here.  In the book Rape New York, Jana Leo unveils the true [...]

Reading Materials The book, Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok, enlightens us with the story of a young Chinese girl named Kim Chang and her mother who immigrate to New York City from Hong Kong.  The author shows how these two women survived, and how the young daughter took care of her mother despite the [...]