Registration is now open for the Spring 2026 of The Stories Between reading group! We are expanding our group even further, diving in together to explore all that our authors have in store for us.
Join us for the next meeting of the 2026 Stories Between reading group Thursday, January 22nd at 5:30pm PST/7:30 CST/ 8:30 EST!
In our third meeting, we will settle in together as we tackle some exciting chapters of Pernille Ipsen’s latest book, My Seven Mothers!
Who Are We?
The Stories Between is an alumni reading group that meets virtually each month to discuss shared texts. As we dive into each reading, we connect with each other, build community, and explore important themes of feminist theory, speculative fiction, past/present/future, bodies, identities, autonomy, and much more.
We are better together and stronger than ever in our vibrant GWS community.
GWS Staff Picks!
Recommended By Amber
Lately i’ve been tackling a piece by Emil Ferris titled My Favorite Thing is Monsters.
Following the narration of 10 year old-Karen Reyes in late 1960s Chicago, Karen’s neighbor Anka is found dead from a gunshot wound, and Karen develops curiosities around her death- was it self inflicted, or is there a murderer lurking? As Karen dives into Anka’s past, exploring art, relationships, and memories via recorded interviews on cassette, the narrator brings us through complicated relationships with family such as her brother Deeze, sickly mother. ex-best friend Sissy, and burgeoning new friendships. The story paints each portrait through various forms of monsters that lurk and move through each page of this diary. Is the killer closer to home than expected? What does one do with generational wounds? Are there good and bad monsters?
Recommended by Dr. Kate Phelps
My recommendation for this month is Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor by Emily Callaci. In this book, Callaci tracks the Wages for Housework campaign that moved across the United States, Italy, and U.K. in the 1970s. This books works, threading pieces of history to interrogate the connections between domestic labor and ongoing capitalist production. What would it look like to pay women for their housework? Here Callaci examines pressing questions and the stakes bound up in the production of labor in ways that reimagine what a future underneath or without capitalism could look like.