Where are all my sci-fi babes at?

Are you feeling like changing the course of history through time travel to make sure your abortion rights are safe… all while listening to punk music from the 90’s? Because SAME!

Okay to be fair, I do not listen to punk music from the 90’s (hello riot grrl fans). But, Flip says that I would probably like it because of all my “fuck the patriarchy” modern day music I listen to now. (PLEASE, did I just classify today as modern day making the 90’s what exactly?)

Be prepared to follow multiple timelines because in this version of reality, there are multiple time traveling rock structures. Each in separate countries and open to researchers to search and travel. This particular group of “geologists” are traveling time to understand and protect women's rights, everything from their ability to enter college up to their freedom to get an abortion (this is your cue to leave if you don’t believe in people having equal rights and access to medical care).

You follow Beth who is 17 and Tess who is a professional time traveler, geoscientist, and secretly a member of the Daughters of Harriet (Tubman), who are working to make the future better for women. My favorite part of this book was reading it in August of 2022 although, it was released in 2019.

In this books reality, abortion is illegal in 2022 - which is what they are trying to change. Obviously, abortion has only just become at risk this year (now 2022) with the falling of Roe V. Wade, so reading this felt like a little time capsule in itself. This book had a shocking amount of deaths in it… the feminist rage became so real. Warranted, but definitely chaotic and destructive.

Today we face the same parallels - here in America and across the world. We cannot change the future and disrupt the past but, we can use this information to understand the places in which we're heading. Our freedoms as women are at stake. Here we fight for the right to basic healthcare, in Italy we’re holding onto our rights while a Mussolini-candle-holder prime minister “swears” to protect abortion, our sisters in Iran have been in protesting since the murder of Mahsa Amini who was killed by the morality police for improperly wearing her hijab. Today, this book means more now than ever, I advise you read it to understand the long fight we have now entered.

“That’s when I decided that the point of travel was not to observe history, but to change it”

To changing history,

Jessica