hello friends!

with us already being 10 days into october (and my birthday being two weeks away!), i would love to know what everyone has on their fall TBR. has anyone been utilizing the monthly planning feature, and if so, what do you have scheduled for this month? i am personally following the seasonal readalong, but i am also in the middle of curating my own october reading list, so i would love any recommendations that match the mood of the season 🧙‍♀️🍂

Massive quality of life update coming your way!! We're dipping our toes into the stats waters with this one.. you can now update and track your progress on your current reads!

Click the progress bar below your current read on your home page to update progress. You can edit your progress for the day until midnight, and a status update with your reading progress will be added to your feed and shared to your followers :) This status update is the perfect place to add a comment for more personal updates that will be shared only to your followers.

Some notes on the nitty gritty:

• An app update is required to see this on iOS/Android!! Please update your app version (especially if you're seeing a weird "unhandled resource_type" message in your feed)
• only 1 update will be added to your feed per day per book when tracking progress (if you’re reading multiple books, one update for each book can be added to your feed). If you update your progress later in the day, the existing feed activity will be updated with the new progress.
• We are now passing your local time to our servers, which means you can edit that day’s progress until midnight local time for you and your start/finish read dates will reflect your local time rather than server time

We're working on home feed controls and updates to the Pagebound Club and Discuss tab next!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💜💙

I am over the moon to share that the app is officially live on both iOS and Android!!

We've quite literally poured our blood, sweat and (lots of) tears into the app development over the past 9 months and we could not be more thrilled for everyone to experience it!

We're still being indexed in app store search so you may have to scroll to find us, or type in Pagebound: Social Book Tracker. Here's links to iOS and Android: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pagebound-social-book-tracker/id6751526412 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.pagebound.app

There are quite a few improvements and new features in the app, including:

• Book Journeys (click the map icon on the book cards in your library and other user's library to see their posts, comments, and updates for a specific book)
• Quick access to "add to plan"
• Filtering your activity on profile
• Save posts
• upgraded Read Dates editing

This is the first release, so there will be many more additions and improvements to come. (PS for Android users: we're aware of two bugs related to library imports from Goodreads/Storygraph, and issues with editing read dates - these have already been resolved and are pending Google approval for release.)

We owe a huge thank you to our beta testers who worked diligently over the last month to report hundreds of bugs and help us get the app prepared for release. A huge round of applause to them.

We hope you love the app as much as we do; it definitely makes engaging on PB so much more convenient and fun. If you have a great experience with the app, we'd love if you'd consider supporting us through Pagebound Royalty; Lucy and I have worked for $0 over the past year to bring the app and website to fruition, and have been covering business costs with our savings accounts. Your contribution means we can continue to work full-time on Pagebound without influence from investors or advertisers, and keep Pagebound 100% for readers by readers. Thank you so much to all the Royalty who have already contributed; it truly means the world to us and keeps Pagebound online!

ok now go download the app and tell us what you think!

Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy

PS - leaving us a review in app stores also helps tremendously :)

y'all today i unfortunately broke my streak of creating shelves for each daily featured emoji because i accidentally forget to check for today's date on 09/27 because i always forget about the universal timezone 😭 i have to catch up on a couple of other days, but i managed to take screenshots to make sure i haven't missed the books, except today i was just too late 🫠 it will bother me deeply to have a day missing so i figured i would do something fun to make up for it by asking everyone: is there an emoji we would like to use in substitute? ill use that one in the emoji search and choose my own list of 20 books to include for today's shelf 🙊

hi everyone! welcome to the Feminism Without Exception forum :) i'm so happy you're here!

my goal with this Quest was to be an accessible entry point to expand your understanding of feminism, and how it intersects with other social justice issues across the world. feminism is so intertwined with other issues, so a few texts included cover a broader range of issues but are still relevant to the conversation.

with that in mind, please note that this Quest is not attempting to be an all-encompassing booklist for feminist texts or feminist history. this Quest is trying to fit a specific niche of intersectionality and deconstruction from oppressive systems as a whole. this means the Quest will favor books that center marginalized voices, rather than books that solely focus on the patriarchy or the broader feminist movement.

i tried to include topics at each level of knowledge and include books that would apply to every reader, but my overall goal is to lean more towards beginner-friendly or intermediate texts, as i want the Quest to be achievable for everyone, even those who may be intimidated by nonfiction or unsure where to start. you will find a few denser, more academic texts included, and i will still consider adding more advanced texts, but please know i will prioritize more introductory texts.

whether you're just beginning to deconstruct from larger systems of oppression and how they intersect with feminism, or if you're already familiar with intersectional theory, i think you'll find something that fits your reading tastes, and teaches you something new!

TL;DR criteria:

focus on centering marginalized voices focus on beginner-friendly or intermediate texts focus on intersectionality, not just patriarchy alone

intersectionality refers to texts that explore the intersection of sexism with other systems of oppression, including: ableism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, and colonization; building upon the framework coined by Dr. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw.

please try to keep suggestions to this main post!

remember to keep the above criteria in mind. i'll make additions as i see fit while prioritizing the spirit of the Quest :)

this Quest forum is meant to be a safe place to talk about intersectional feminism at large, i encourage everyone to feel comfortable having hard conversations here.

happy reading, i'm so excited to learn and grow together 🩷