Today on The Stacks, we have author and feminist Rachel Overvoll joining us to discuss her book Finding Feminism, which is a memoir about her upbringing as fundamentalist Evangelical Christian, her split from the church, and her personal journey toward feminism and empowerment. Rachel shares her own definition of Feminist, her perspectives on leaving religion, and then we somehow get off on a The Bachelor tangent. This episode has it all.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
Books
- Finding Feminism by Rachel Overvoll
- Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
- The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon
- New American Standard Bible
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
- The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- Khaled Hosseini
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (Audiobook)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti
- Jessica Valenti
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Margaret Atwood
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
- When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- You’re Not Lost by Maxie McCoy
- Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Pure by Linda Kay Klein
- I Can’t Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux
- Shrill by Lindy West
- An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
- Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
- Roxane Gay
- Hunger by Roxane Gay (Audiobook)
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Kwame Alexander
- Nikki Giovanni
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Swing by Kwame Alexander
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Everything Else
- Ask the Stacks — askingthestacks@gmail.com
- “Bestselling Author R.O. Kwon On Why She Stopped Believing in God” (Tyler Huckabee, Relevant Magazine)
- “God is a Woman” (Ariana Grande, 2018)
- Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)
- “Ep. Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie–The Stacks Book Club (Tawny Newsome)” (The Stacks)
- Jessica Valenti Articles
- Ashley Spivey
- J. P. Rosenbaum
- Ashley Hebert Rosenbaum
- The Bachelorette
- Hannah Brown
- Tyler Cameron
- Chase McNary
- Ben Higgins
- Sean Lowe
- Emily Maynard
- Kaitlyn Bristowe
- “Pilot” Pete Weber
- Trista Sutter
- Ryan Sutter
- Bibiana Julian
- “Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say” (Markahm Heid, Time)
- Tattered Cover Bookstore (Denver, CO)
- Powell’s Books (Portland, OR)
- Roxane Gay on Twitter
- Beyonce
- Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994)
- LadyGang
- Keltie Knight
- Becca Tobin
- Jac Vanek
- By The Book (The New York Times)
- “The Short Stacks 16: Angie Kim//Miracle Creek” (The Stacks)
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