Julie Kedzie is a writer and retired mixed martial artist.

Julie Kedzie, Badass Woman

For my most recent Badass Women blog interview, I recently spoke with Julie Kedzie, a retired American mixed martial artist, writer, and real badass woman.

The Bechdel Test

Alright, so let’s talk about another feminist aspiration that someone who cares about women in fiction in any format–books, television, movies, etc.–should know about. It’s called The Bechdel Test.

Book Release! Won’t Let You Go, by Weslie Ashe

So Friday, April 12, 2019, my first “real” romance book launches. It’s called Won’t Let You Go, and it’s the first in my new series, the All Tied Up With String Romance series, which is basically a set of fluff books about couples who are tied together by some kind of string.

Jen Kelchner, Badass Woman

For my second Badass Women blog interview, I spoke with Jen Kelchner, a Conscious Transformation & Strategy Leader who runs her own business, Leader 21, and is involved in several other projects (including a personal project she thinks of as “world domination”).

The Real Heroes

Okay, so I’m talking to one of my friends last week about this whole “feminist hero” problem, and she says the following: “Well, you know the real problem, don’t you? It’s that the only true feminist heroes out there are lesbians.” But really, who are the feminist heroines? What do they look like?

Romantic Heroes: Feminist?

So I had the great pleasure this week to have not one, not two, NOT EVEN THREE, but FOUR conversations about feminist ideals. Some of those conversations took place with men who were legitimately interested. Which made me think: why isn’t there a “feminist romantic hero” category for book browsers?