Feminist Book Club is the premier online hub for intersectional readers and anyone who wants to infuse their bookshelves with social justice. We encourage resistance through reading with our blog, podcast, events, and our signature monthly subscription box.
Founder Story Feminist Book Club is inspired by Renee’s academic background in feminist theory and her penchant for being an early adopter of subscription boxes, podcasts, and online communities. She combined these interests with her love of reading, her passion for toppling the kyriarchy, and the desire to lead a team of people much smarter than her. Now Feminist Book Club is the premier online hub for intersectional readers around the world.
Renee M. Powers is lifelong Midwesterner, an Aries, an ISFJ, a 3 on the enneagram, and a former theatre kid. Honestly, that’s a pretty good overview of what she’s like. She’s been obsessed with feminist theory and feminist literature since her first Women’s Studies class in 2005.
She graduated from Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, IN) with a degree in Women’s Studies in 2008 at the height of a recession. Young, scrappy, and hungry, she began a career in politics and held positions with a number of members of Congress and a U.S. Senator. Burning out after just a couple years, she went back to school with aspirations to be an academic. Renee earned her M.A. in Communication from Northern Illinois University and spent six years in a Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Entrepreneurship has always gnawed at her so in 2018 she took the leap and bought this URL.
Renee loves memoirs, airports, iced coffee, bold lipstick, and Lady Gaga. When not working on Feminist Book Club, she can be found trying new breweries and coffee shops, cheering on Notre Dame women’s basketball, playing Pokémon Go, or trying and failing to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Or reading. Obviously.
