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This week Maggie and Harmony become socio-political commentators as they attempt to make sense of the attempted coup in Washington D.C. that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021. They talk about these events through major themes that occur in the book Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee. In this episode: https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/may/06/why-ya-books-about-politics-election-always-dystopian https://dystopianyaliterature.weebly.com/common-themes.html https://bookriot.com/what-is-speculative-fiction/ https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-speculative-fiction-defining-and-understanding-the-different-genres-of-speculative-fiction#subgenres-of-speculative-fiction https://bookriot.com/10-ways-post-election-america-is-a-dystopian-ya-novel/ https://bookriot.com/bring-back-dystopian-ya/ https://www.verywellmind.com/effects-of-collective-trauma-5071346 https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/collective-trauma-and-disaster-stress-research-publicly-available.html https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifting-the-veil-trauma/202005/what-is-collective-trauma What we're reading: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316422048 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525620778 To follow our episode schedule go here https://medium.com/rebel-girls-book-club/read-along-with-the-show-bde1d80a8108 Follow our social media pages at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rgbcpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RebelGirlsBookClub/ Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/101801516-rebel-girls and Twitter https://twitter.com/RebelGirlsBook1 Or you can email us at RebelGirlsBookClub@gmail.com. Our theme song is by The Gays and our image is by Mari Talor Renaud-Krutulis. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rgbc/support