We're knee-deep in the holiday season, where love is gift wrapped in snow flakes and crucifixes. I love obsessing about my favorite people and showering them with small tokens of my affection*, but there's always someone I simply cannot shop for because their life is completely foreign to me. (Usually, it is my stoic, spartan brother. He is getting a salami for Christmas, along with the gift of me not burdening him with sentimental moments of prolonged eye contact.)

If that person in your life is a feminist, you're in luck! I have plenty of fun gift ideas for feminists, because I spend approximately 20 hours a day online window shopping with my vagina, Patsy. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it includes lots of good, reasonably-priced gifts for the progressive women in your life, courtesy of me and other Stranger feminists.

Books:
Anna Minard recommends Rookie Yearbook Two, Jen Graves says a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves is vital a must-have reproductive science book for women of all ages, Paul Constant recommends Kate Zambreno's Heroines, and I cannot sing higher praises for Peter Bagge's illustrated biography of Margaret Sanger, Woman Rebel, which is beautiful, funny, and fascinating.

And, if you have a lady with a romantic streak on your list, here's a list of empowering romance authors.

Shirts n' shit:
Minard makes all the other feminists swoon with envy when she struts around in her The Moon is Feminist Art t-shirt. "It makes you feel like your menses controls the tides!" she says. Here's another favorite: It Votes vagina shirt. Minard also reps these cool Salt-n-Pepa decorative pins (which include some dudes you've never heard of).

For Seattle Feminists:
A Reel Grrls class would be awesome for budding feminists ages 9-19 who are interested in media and film, and Mary Traverse and I agree that ladies of all ages would find passes for GirlGeekCon 2014 to be a motherfucking delight.

If your favorite feminist lives in Michigan, consider writing her an IOU for rape insurance. (Or simply purchase her a durable pair of anti-rape underwear.) Then again, you could just buy her a one-way ticket to Seattle. Same goes for feminists in Idaho, Texas, North Dakota, North Carolina, and every other state that actively works to undermine the rights of half its residents. What I'm saying is, Washington welcomes feminist transplants!

Other Neat Gifts:

You can't go wrong with a Snapped dvd set. Each episode is like a morality tale for the whole feminist family!

Or how about a pair of classy vagina earrings? Nothing says "I love vaginas" more than book-ending your face in pussy.

If the feminist in your life is a country music lover, consider buying her Brandy Clark's debut album, 12 Stories. Clark smartly addresses real problems women face (in rhyme!) and her voice is simply stunning.

I have a few of these lady heroes of science wood ornaments and I think they're lovely. And, since I regularly drink coffee out of an old pickle jar, I'm salivating over these feminist coffee mugs from Bitch magazine. (You could also buy your favorite feminist a Bitch subscription.)

Gifts You Can Make:
If you're a crafty sort of person, buy a glue gun, a poor king's ransom of rhinestones, and some bulk canisters of pepper spray, and then bedazzle the shit out of them. I did this one year and everyone loved it.

Another year, I was hoping to buy a few of those anti-rape condoms that were all the rage in South Africa for a few of my globe-trotting friends. I couldn't find any, so I made my own out of antique bear traps and recycled shower caps. Such fun!

Of course, not all feminists gift ideas should revolve around ways to prevent rape. That would be depressing. If you have a lot of hair (head or body, nobody's judging!), consider harvesting some of it and braiding ornamental hair jewelry for your friends. I, for one, would never turn away the gift of someone else's braided body hair.

If you're not blessed with an abundance of body hair, Emily Nokes suggests you make a calendar for all your lady friends out of these awesome photos (NSFW, probably).

Or you could always make cookies. Feminists love cookies.

Donate, donate, donate:
Finally, there are so many great organizations you support in the name of friends who eschew physical gifts. Slog is currently running a fundraiser for YouthCare's young adult shelter at the Orion Center. Then there are local nonprofits like New Beginnings and Dawn help support survivors of domestic violence, Planned Parenthood does awesome work for women's reproductive rights on every level, as does NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, the aforementioned Reel Grrls needs your help keeping the cost of their awesome programs accessible to young women of all socioeconomic backgrounds, and then there's PAWS Cat City. Feminists also love cats.

All that said, I want to stress how incomplete this list is. If you have other great ideas for what to make or buy the beloved feminists in all our lives, please leave them in the comments.

*Mostly, my gifts are handmade and edible, because I am poor and love to snack. This year, I made bitters and fermented hot sauce, both of which turned out pretty fucking delicious.