Feminist Survival Project

Let’s talk about something pleasant. Emily and Amelia discuss the books, videos and what have you that are making them happy this year. It’s time to get ventral.

Links:

Libby app (borrow library books and audiobooks)

Brandon Sanderson
THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE

Thursday Murder Club series

Alexis Hall
10 Things That Never Happened
Boyfriend Material
Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter

Nicholas Boulton (the world's best audiobook narrator)

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated (audiobook)
This is the one Nicholas Boulton is in

Laura Kinsale
Flowers from the Storm
Audiobook narrated by Nicholas Boulton

Alexis Hall
A Lady for a Duke

KJ Charles
Will Darling Adventures
The Charm of Magpies series

Great audiobook narrators:

Steven Crossley
Julia Whelan (also an author!)
Mary Jane Wells

Abby Jiminez
Yours Truly

Kimberly Lemming
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf

Misha Popp
Pies Before Guys Mystery Series

Helena Greer
Seasons of Love

Alyssa Cole
Reluctant Royals series

Courtney Milan
The Turner Series
The Duke Who Didn’t
The Devil Comes Courting

Cat Sebastian

Non-romance books:

Maggie O’Farrell
I Am, I Am, I Am

Rebecca Hardiman
Good Eggs

Emily St. James
Woodworking

Sarah Rees Brennan
Long Live Evil

Ali Wong
Dear Girls

Yahtzee Croshaw

Things That Aren’t Books

DrGluon (Youtube)

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

The Dogs Were Good (Again) Podcast

Dropout
Game Changer
Dimension 20 (A Starstruck Odyssey)

Critical Role
Campaign IV

Dropout
Dimension 20 (Escape From the Bloodkeep)

Britbox
Sister Boniface Mysteries

And back to books for a moment:

Alexis Hall
Glitterland

John Scalzi

Ben Aaronovitch
Rivers of London

The holidays are coming. What do you do if you have family whose politics you abhor? Turns out it depends. Stick around to the end for Amelia’s highly specific take on The Grinch.

Links:

Knitting Cult Lady:
Youtube
Instagram
Uncultured (book)
The Culting of America (pre-order!)

Thought-terminating cliché

Green Dot program bystander interventions:
• Direct
• Delegate
• Distract

Lindsay Ellis: The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel (Youtube)

Kaelynn Partlow (Youtube)

FSP S01 E08: The Monitor
Podcast
Youtube

Charlemagne (Holy Roman Emperor)

Turns out Emily actually does have a Shadow. And she’s a half-orc wizard.

Links:

The Science of Saving Your Sex Life
To Maximize Your Potential, Maximize Pleasure

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How AIDS Remained an Unspoken—But Deadly—Epidemic for Years

Brennan Lee Mulligan

Aabria Iyengar

Emily & Amelia Nagoski, Burnout - XOXO Festival (2019)

Vivian Gussin Paley

This American Life - Dolls

Do you have a bubble of love? Do you know how to build one? Emily and Amelia discuss how they managed to do it, and how Frozen is more than just a kiddie movie.

Links:

Burnout

FSP 2020 episode 11: The Bubble of Love

The Burnout Workbook, by Amelia

Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (Youtube)

FSP 2020 S2 E27: Diving into the Shadow: An Introduction

The days are getting shorter. It’s going to be colder soon. It’s time to get cozy. It’s time to get… hygge. Candles and pumpkins and cheese, oh my!

Links:

Books by Tricia Hersey:
Rest Is Resistance
We Will Rest!

Nothing Much Happens podcast

Neuroma

Vermont Creamery Cremont

Tasting History on real eggnog (Youtube)