In our season finale, we talk about Britney Spears, the toxic circus of her conservatorship, and how Britney's loss of autonomy reflects that of millions of people worldwide. Also, Britney suffering from domestic violence?  What we’ve learned about Britney Spears’s conservatorship case changes everything Britney Spears’s Conservatorship: What to Know  #FreeBritney! And while we're at it, free the women of Saudi Arabia too  Britney Spears' Conservatorship Is Back In Court: Who's Who, And What They Want  Liz Day's Twitter  Britney Spears has had to sit through incredibly misogynistic and invasive interviews. Here are the worst ones.  Bodily autonomy: Busting 7 myths that undermine individual rights and freedoms  For Women Under Conservatorship, Forced Birth Control Is Routine  RADRecs  Sex Object (Jessica Valenti) Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) No Visible Bruises (Rachel Louise Snyder) Disability Visibility (Alice Wong) You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected]. See you in Season 2!

This week, we discuss the Rocket Man Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and how they've changed the game, for better or worse, for how book lovers shop online. Booksellers fear 'stranglehold' as Amazon snaps up British rival The Book Depository Amazon.com and 'Big Five' publishers accused of ebook price-fixing Amazon and Its Missing Books A Final Word Before Mr. Bezos Blasts Off Power and Peril: 5 Takeaways on Amazon’s Employment Machine Amazon offers 'wellness chamber' for stressed staff The Amazon That Customers Don’t See Brick and Mortar: Lessons About the Future of Bookselling Brick-and-mortar bookstores dying in electronic age? No, many are thriving China’s brick-and-mortar bookstores are making a comeback RADRecs: Libby BookBar Lit Books Gerakbudaya Silverfish You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected]. And free Britney, you cowards!

For World Refugee Day, we discuss the refugee crisis, moving beyond an Euro-centric view of the crisis, and what we can do to help. 1951 Refugee Convention UNHCR viewpoint: ‘Refugee’ or ‘migrant’ – Which is right? ‘Home’ by Warsan Shire 12 Book about Syria to Help You Learn about the Ongoing Conflict Elizabeth Day talks to Pulitzer Prize winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen about The Committed RADRecs: The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (Viet Thanh Nguyen) The Best We Could Do (Thi Bui) Monstress (Marjorie M. Liu) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System (Alexander Betts, Paul Collier) Beyond the Books: MSRI Dignity for Children Foundation El Shaddai British Red Cross Refugee Action Save the Children You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].

Aimee challenges Josh to read 'The Kiss Quotient' and challenges his perception of love, romance novels, and the universe.  The Romance Writers of America  The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation  Meeting Harry Styles and what it taught me about "gender contamination" in business  Diana Gabaldon on Why Outlander Isn’t Really a Romance and Writing Her First Episode  RADRecs:  The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) Call Me By Your Name (Andre Aciman) Blankets (Craig Thompson) The Prince and the Dressmaker (Jen Wang) You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].

In a follow-up to the last episode, we talk about cancel culture in the readers' community and publishing industry. Cancel culture can be a powerful tool to democratize accountability, but it can also be a double-edged sword used by bigots and activists alike.  The second wave of “cancel culture”  Why ‘Cancel Culture’ Is a Distraction  The Daily Podcast - A Vast Web of Vengeance   A Feminist Critique of Murakami Novels, With Murakami Himself  RADRecs:  We Need New Stories (Nesrine Malik)  The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars (Meghan Daum)  You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].

We talk about whether authors’ politics and behavior affect how we enjoy their books. These include authors who we adored as children as well as current authors (JK, we're looking at you).  Tintin in the Land of Cancel Culture  JK Rowling's controversial essay on transgender persons Charisma Carpenter statement on Joss Whedon's alleged abuse  RADRecs:  N.K. Jemisin  Asterix the Gaul (René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo) You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].

We talk about the books that helped us get through lockdown, and how they gave us hope even amidst adversity.  RADRecs:  The Property (Rutu Modan)  Low (Rick Remender)  Probably Nothing (Matilda Tristam)  Beyond the Books:  The Body Coach TV  Tom Holland (Not Spider-Man)  Pocket Mountains  You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].

Following the devastating death of Sarah Everard, we discuss rape culture, its roots, and the survivors who have spoken out against it.  RADRecs: Tomorrow Sex will be Good Again (Katherine Angel) Dear Ijeawele (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) Not That Bad (Roxane Gay) Drawing Power (Diane Noomin) Know My Name (Chanel Miller) Beyond the Books: The Havens (UK) The Survivor's Trust (UK) Women's Centre for Change (Malaysia) Women's Aid Organization (Malaysia) You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].

We continue our discussion about diversity in our second episode! Aimee shares her journey of diversifying her bookshelf (thanks, Donald!), and we dive into gatekeeping in publishing, the struggles of #OwnVoices authors to be heard, and auditing our bookshelves.  Corinne Duvyis #OwnVoices  RADRecs: The Poppy War (RF Kuang) The Weight of Our Sky (Hanna Alkaf) Gender Queer (Maia Kobabe) On a Sunbeam (Tillie Walden) Christine T (IG: lookprettybooks) Nat (IG: anattynook) You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].

Welcome to Episode 1 of WAiRaD! We start by discussing why diverse characters in fiction is important to us, and share books we've enjoyed recently with great representation and diversity.  RADRecs:  Monstress (Marjorie Liu) Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo) We, The Survivors (Tash Aw) Evening is the Whole Day (Preeta Samarasan) You can find us on Instagram at readanddone or email us at [email protected].