In other words, romance novels. Categorized. Hand selected. This is your holiday present.

Books discussed in this episode:

High Fantasy 



Circe by Madeline Miller
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin



Fantasy Romance



Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
Reign and Ruin by J.D. Evans
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
Radiance by Grace Draven
The Fell Queen by Camille Dwight



Romance Fantasy (Romantasy)

Subgenre: men who are so babygirl

Throne in the Dark (the full trilogy) by A.K. Caggiano
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Halfling & Ironling by S.E. Wendel


Subgenre: possessive, power dynamic, mine mine mine

Captive of the Horde King by Zoey Draven
The Horde King of Shadow by Zoey Draven
Desire in His Blood by Zoey Draven
Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon


Subgenre: Historical Romance (still fantasy because these men don’t exist)

The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne


Subgenre: modern workplace romance

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood



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This one's about my period coming back and Project 2025.

Sources referenced in this episode:

vote.gov
votesaveamerica.org
Hormone therapy for breast cancer (American Cancer Society)
Dr. Jen Gunter on hormone therapy
APA policy on gender-affirming care (American Psychological Association)
WPATH FAQs (The World Association for Transgender Health)
AAP policy statement on gender-affirming care
Trevor Project

Something kinda sad: when you go to the Trevor Project page, it lets you know that quickly pressing the ESC button three times will exit you out;


Child marriage is still happening and here's a study on it
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf (2025 Mandate for Leadership, The Conservative Promise)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/race-mass-incarceration-and-disastrous-war-drugs (Brennan Center for Justice)
https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/the-war-on-drugs-as-structural-racism/ (The War on Drugs as Structural Racism)
Using the latest available data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Violent Death Reporting System, Davis and colleagues (2021) found that between 2007 and 2018, nurses were 18 percent more likely to unalive themselves than the general population.


Why down ballot voting is important:

Majority of Arizonians support abortion (Prop 139 will protect abortion access up to viability), but judges in the state can still block it;
Tarrant county Texas judge Tim O’Hare has lead efforts to cut nonprofit funding for at-risk children because they endorse LGBTQIA+ rights and recognize racial inequality as bad;

He is, not unsurprisingly, backed by oil companies and evangelical christian organizations predominantly. He also continues to endorse white nationalism;


All this to say, vote, vote local, talk about voting, make a plan to vote, put it on your calendar.



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Buy spreadsheets from my Etsy shop!!!!! I need money for skincare!!!!

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You ready for some more skincare talk? Well I am, and despite the absolute hellmarch that is the current affairs section of the news cycle, my skin shall remain gently exfoliated and well moisturized. Just remember to reapply your sunscreen after sobbing uncontrollably, girlies! Yay!

Check out our website for exclusive stuff like blogs, videos and more

Medication abortion is legal in all 50 states; go to Mayday.health or plancpills.org

Support families in need 🍉

Buy spreadsheets from my Etsy shop!!!!! I need money for skincare!!!!
Thank you for listening love you bye
 

Joselyn and Lauren talk about skincare; everything they use, everything they love and before you ask, yes, there's a spreadsheet for that.

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Long story short, do you have enough money saved to live out your last days aboard a Viking River Cruise? If not, this may be the episode for you.

Get a heavily discounted budget spreadsheet from my Etsy shop here

My fave finance people:

Tori Dunlap

Vivian Tu

Rose Han

Nischa

Remit Sethi

Today we are talking about money, about the cost of being sick with a cancer or other chronic illness, how it affects your entire life and your potential to make and save money. Join us as we laugh through the devastation, which we have to do to keep from crumbling under the crushing weight of it all. FUN!

Here's my Etsy shop where you can buy a budget spreadsheet (discount applied through this link)

Financial Feminist is a good pod listen

So is Your Rich BFF's pod Networth and Chill

Some stats on the financial burden of a cancer diagnosis

Detailed stats on the economic burden of a cancer diagnosis

We're back! and better than *ever.

*Breast Cancer Is Boring is not liable for this claim as this episode contains fairly average conversation about New Years Resolutions that, let's face it, don't stand a chance of being fulfilled but you may actually enjoy listening so GET TO IT!

Dr. Amy Morris joins us to discuss whether you can have cake and still limit your chances of a cancer recurrence...too. She's got the evidence-based answers, and they're not as bad as you think.

Follow @dramymorris on socials

Follow us @breastcancerisboring

We're all for cancer research, but could we please focus more attention on developing a Dr. Who fourth dimensional phone booth situation into a carry-on suitcase?

Here we go a-fucking-gain, another Pinktober on the horizon. You could scream into the void, or you can listen to our Dos and Don'ts list. Or both. Go wild.

If you thought breast cancer was boring, wait 'til you hear about sarcoma. Join special guest and honorary co-host Brandi Thompson as we explore some of the fun ways in which our bodies are out here trying to un-alive us. Yay!

Reconstructed titties have been kept in the dark (or in very, very bad lighting) for too long! It's time to free the (no)nipples! Who's with us?

If you've ever been diagnosed with breast cancer (or any other kind of cancer), you are very familiar with the above phrase. In this episode, join Lauren and Joselyn as they talk through the lasting impact of a cancer diagnosis, from the soul crushing certainty of metastasis to the manic energy of the "fuck it, let's go to Europe" era. In either case, we're gonna have some fun.

Oooh it's that time of the pod year again! A time where we let The Lord loose and lose a view listeners (probs). It's the god, God and gods episode. Enjoy.

The League of Women Voters (but, like, everyone can join)

The Seven Tenets (but, like, don't click if you believe in an actual Satan because there's, like, skulls and dragons and stuff)

In this long awaited B Side, Rebecca Handler (award winning author of Edie Richter Is Not Alone, podcast alum and general Person of Note) and Joselyn discuss the merits and myriad flaws of big ass churches erected in the name of that one guy who famously told everyone to sell all their shit.

Buy Edie Richter Is Not Alone on paperback!

Rebecca Handler's blog!

Special guest Rebecca Handler, award winning author of Edie Richter Is Not Alone (novel), One Woman Party (blog) and one hell of a cool woman, is here to talk breast implants, update us on Cancer Jane and tease her next novel. There's laughter, singing and porn metaphors! What's not to love!?

Rebecca Handler iykyk

Perfume ("Ew da Toilet") Joselyn bought in Paris (ships to lots of countries, including US)

Joselyn went to France that one time, so here she is to dole out indispensable advice on how to France.

First they came for your skinny jeans, now they're here to pry those Lulu leggings right out from under your errand-running ass. It's workout wear, Gen Z style.

In our first ever LIVE-ish show, someone needs a vacation and it's not not Lauren.

Vacation Planning Spreadsheet

Ginny and Joselyn discuss the finer points of sexual dominance, the structures surrounding the human vagina, and why so many people don't know what (or where) they are.

#findom