Denise Mochid rated Laziness Does Not Exist: 4 stars
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, …
Good way to start the year :)
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Bi, Asian-European, trans woman, she/her, cybersec student, surviving and thriving in the Balkans. Very interested in developing thoughts and ideas about the relationship between tech and oppression/liberation. Mainly reading either political books from a queer-feminist anarchist/leftist perspective, IT and cybersecurity books, and self-help. Hopefully regular book reviews :)
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Denise Mochid rated Ur-Fascism: 4 stars
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco
"Ur-Fascism" or "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" (in Italian: Il fascismo eterno, or Ur-Fascismo) is an …
Denise Mochid finished reading Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco
"Ur-Fascism" or "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt" (in Italian: Il fascismo …
Denise Mochid wants to read Understanding Cryptography by Bart Preneel
Cryptography is up to now my most interesting subject in cybersecurity.
Denise Mochid reviewed Ain't I A Woman by bell hooks
An examination of the politics of racism and sexism from a feminist perspective, looking at …
How multiple axes of oppression work together to marginalize black women
5 stars
No one group is safe from bell hooks' substantial critique in her in-depth exploration of the oppression black women have to struggle against in the United States.
This book contains several essays, which deal with black women's struggle from the time of slavery to the time of publishing (1981). In them the author shows how time and again black women have been marginalized or excluded not only from patriarchal mainstream society, but also from white feminism and black liberation movements.
Nearly a decade before the term intersectionality was coined, bell hooks describes how the multiple axes of oppression black women have been struggling against work in tandem to silence, exclude, and marginalize groups of people; how liberation movements are split along lines of gender and race and ultimately loose their radicalness and strength while granting some of its leaders entry to the white patriarchal hierarchy.
If you're in any way …
No one group is safe from bell hooks' substantial critique in her in-depth exploration of the oppression black women have to struggle against in the United States.
This book contains several essays, which deal with black women's struggle from the time of slavery to the time of publishing (1981). In them the author shows how time and again black women have been marginalized or excluded not only from patriarchal mainstream society, but also from white feminism and black liberation movements.
Nearly a decade before the term intersectionality was coined, bell hooks describes how the multiple axes of oppression black women have been struggling against work in tandem to silence, exclude, and marginalize groups of people; how liberation movements are split along lines of gender and race and ultimately loose their radicalness and strength while granting some of its leaders entry to the white patriarchal hierarchy.
If you're in any way interested about liberation, I highly recommend reading "Ain't I A Woman". It is not very long (less than 200 pg) and not academic, but shows clearly the multiple lines of oppression working in tandem in Western capitalist society.