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From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic …
From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic …
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of …
I'm not a cynic," Maya protested. "I admit the beauty of this city. It has a beautiful beating heart. It cares for its own, and for the stranger. Its streams run with clear water, and the trees that line its pathways bow under the weight of fruit anyone is free to pick. And yes, we had a hand in shaping it. But what does that mean if it can't survive?" "It means it existed once," Rio said, "and so it is possible. Undeniably possible."
— The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (Page 325)
From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic …
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first …
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. …
Rather than pursuing the comparatively easy task of critiquing trans-hating texts, in this section I instead assess the work of people whose political and theoretical work on gender transformation I respect
— Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Page 357)
Get their ass, Shotwell
An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first …
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from …
This is an anthology of short essays about the importance of community, environment, and centering oneself, which I'd normally be super into, but the quality varies wildly. You can finish up the most profound essay on how connection with nature is essential to connect with your community and how both make life better, followed up with an essay about how Singapore's dictatorship isn't that bad actually because they make the trains run on time. Overall, I'd recommend it, but only just, because the highs tend to outweigh the lows.
This is an anthology of short essays about the importance of community, environment, and centering oneself, which I'd normally be super into, but the quality varies wildly. You can finish up the most profound essay on how connection with nature is essential to connect with your community and how both make life better, followed up with an essay about how Singapore's dictatorship isn't that bad actually because they make the trains run on time. Overall, I'd recommend it, but only just, because the highs tend to outweigh the lows.
Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful …
Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of …
They [White people] looked at us as though we were zebras -and, you know, some people like zebras and some people don't. But nobody ever asks the zebra.
— If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Page 9)
Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful …
Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes …
This is a fantastic January read for when the weather's bad and you're curled up inside. The plot is very slice of life focused, and it's as warm and cozy as the drinks described in the novel itself. Highly reccommend for anyone who feels they need to escape from real life for a couple of hours.
This is a fantastic January read for when the weather's bad and you're curled up inside. The plot is very slice of life focused, and it's as warm and cozy as the drinks described in the novel itself. Highly reccommend for anyone who feels they need to escape from real life for a couple of hours.
The rest of the book so far has been good (It's an anthology), but the essay I'm reading now is almost laughably bad. It's about the South Vietnamese experience trying to resist assimilation to American culture, which could be interesting, but the author is talking about the things they've lost like "Oh, those evil commies stole my manor house where I extracted rent from like 500 tenants, killed my father who fought in the South Vietnamese army, and stole my servant who literally had to work the day after giving birth at 5:00 AM" (that last one is literally said by the author as though it shows her dedication to her work and not her exploitation). The "happy ending" that the author settles on is that a South Vietnamese exile married a Belgian noble and became royalty of her own. Like I understand that immigration is a brutal process, and …
The rest of the book so far has been good (It's an anthology), but the essay I'm reading now is almost laughably bad. It's about the South Vietnamese experience trying to resist assimilation to American culture, which could be interesting, but the author is talking about the things they've lost like "Oh, those evil commies stole my manor house where I extracted rent from like 500 tenants, killed my father who fought in the South Vietnamese army, and stole my servant who literally had to work the day after giving birth at 5:00 AM" (that last one is literally said by the author as though it shows her dedication to her work and not her exploitation). The "happy ending" that the author settles on is that a South Vietnamese exile married a Belgian noble and became royalty of her own. Like I understand that immigration is a brutal process, and especially immigration to the USA, but let me play a sad song for the author on the world's smallest violin.
