I will review Franka Frei’s “Überfällig. Warum Verhütung auch Männersache ist” (Overdue. Why contraception is also men’s business) in German because a publisher kindly provided me with a German review copy of the book. However, you can find an English book review on the second page of this post. Für mich als Person, die aktuell…
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Book Review: Lust. Eine Erkundung der weiblichen Sexualität by María Hesse
I will review María Hesse’s “Lust. Eine Erkundung der weiblichen Sexualität” (El Placer/O Prazer/Le Plaisir) in German because a publisher kindly provided me with a German review copy of the book. However, you can find an English book review on the second page of this post. “Lust. Eine Erkundung der weiblichen Sexualität” (El Placer) von…
Book Review: Clit. Die aufregende Geschichte der Klitoris von Louisa Lorenz
Other than usual I will review Louisa Lorenz’ “Clit. Die aufregende Geschichte der Klitoris” in German because a publisher kindly provided me with a review copy of the book. However, you can find an English book review on the second page of this post. Louisa Lorenz war schon 25 Jahre alt, als sie erfuhr wie…
Book Review: Frauen Schulden Dir Gar Nichts von Florence Given
Other than usual I will review Florence Given’s “Women Don’t Owe You Pretty” in German today because a German publisher kindly provided me with a review copy of its German translation “Frauen Schulden Dir Gar Nichts”. However, you can find an English book review on the second page of this post. Ich hatte „Frauen Schulden…
Book Review: Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit
“Men Explain Things to Me” is a feminist essay collection by Rebecca Solnit named after her essay that became famous for describing the phenomenon of mansplaining. Besides mansplaining this anthology on feminism also covers a variety of other topics such as Virginia Woolf, sexualized violence and same-sex marriages. Knowing that it has become a beloved…
What you need to know about the German Election
As always you can find my sources for this post on the second page. I also included some links to Wikipedia articles of the relevant parties and candidates for further reading. This post is rather long. So I separated it into different sections. Feel free to just scroll down to the questions that interest you…
The Hanau shootings: Kein Vergessen
As the Germans or German-speaking readers probably know today, the 19th of August 2021, marks the one and a half year anniversary of the Hanau shootings . So I wanted to spread some awareness for those of you who don’t know about it. A year and a half ago Hanau, a small city in the…
Feminist Reading Bingo: My Birthday Surprise for You!
This week was my birthday and I’m so excited that I can finally reveal the birthday surprise that I’ve been preparing for you during the past few weeks. It’s a reading bingo – and even better a feminist one! As some of you might know already, I am a huge fan of reading bingos. It always…
Who was Clara Zetkin?
You can find the sources for this text on the second page of the post. A few weeks ago I asked in my Instagram story whether my followers know Clara Zetkin and I was surprised to learn that hardly anyone seemed to be familiar with her and her work. So I thought introducing her would make a…
Book Review: Periode ist politisch by Franka Frei
I had super high expectations before reading “Periode ist politisch. Ein Manifest gegen das Menstruationstabu” (The period is political. A manifesto against the menstrual taboo) by Franka Frei. Looking back I really regret that not because the book was horrible but because it simply wasn’t unable to live up to the idea I had before…