Cannonball Read 18

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This review is coming to you from a real life dystopia

Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake by Mazey Eddings

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I am writing to you from the inside of an actual, non-fiction dystopia. The spoilers start now. I never liked the evil ex trope, and I particularly disliked the evil ex had an abortion variation. I used to come across it frequently in the late 1980s – 1990s. I haven’t seen much of it recently and I’m not at all happy about coming across it in Mazey Edding’s Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake. The book isn’t explicitly anti-abortion, and I have no idea which side Eddings […]

Romance and Reproductive Choice

Not Another Family Wedding by Jackie Lau

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

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Around the time the Alabama Anti-Abortion bill passed, there was a conversation on twitter about romances that dealt with abortion in a positive/normalizing manner. You can find many of the tweets with #RomanceforRoe. It’s most often been treated as a moral issue instead of a healthcare issue, and that should go out the door with slut shaming. A few readers and authors chimed in with books that addressed abortion as a healthcare choice that didn’t ruin the main character’s life. Canadian author Jackie Lau pointed […]



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