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Mia does an excellent detailing her journey through transition, and explaining the trans experience to people who might be unfamiliar. I’d recommend this book to anyone - cis, trans, or questioning - who wants to better understand what it means to be trans.
A provocative manifesto, Whipping girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman …
I thought this book was phenomenal for the author’s clear explanations of the realities of her experience as a trans woman and her deft dismissal of the many misconceptions popular culture promulgates about trans people. I think everyone should read this book, especially if they are questioning their gender, or trying to better understand the trans people in their life.
Some of the terminology is outdated (as the author notes in the foreword), and some of the examples are a bit outdated as well, but it’s not a significant issue, and many of the same broad points are still unfortunately all too accurate.
I did find some of the discussion about the nuances of feminist theory and the internal politics of the queer movement a bit inaccessible, but I’d chalk that up to my own lack of familiarity going in, than any shortcoming on the author’s part.
A provocative manifesto, Whipping girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects …
A tiny American town’s plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a …
Why resisting climate change means combatting the fossil fuel industry
The science on climate change …
What this book is not - a field guide for industrial sabotage.
What it is - a well-reasoned argument in favor of a radical flank of the climate movement.
I found it surprisingly hopeful, in a good way, with his skillful takedown of deep ecology and climate fatalism. I come away feeling reinvigorated that a mass movement with a broad diversity of tactics is still capable of making humanity change our ways fast enough to avert catastrophe.
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
I hope this turns out to be less prescient than it feels, to start reading this book on this day.
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …
Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They’re high culture, …
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …
I enjoyed this book, and I think the author did a great job laying out the history of cooperatives and the fertile ground for a modern resurgence. I was disappointed by his enthusiasm for cryptocurrencies, however. That said, this book was written in 2018 - peak crypto-hype. I’d be interested to see how the author’s thoughts have changed in the years since, where crypto has been brought down a peg in the eyes of most, and a pandemic has offered more case studies on decentralized organizing.
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and …