Reviews and Comments

A very quick and easy read to get an introduction about trade unions in the UK, what they are & do, the challenges faced and how & why you should be in one!

This book hit very close to home, both on a professional and personal level. Chapman provides a great overview over the historical forces that shape neoliberal capitalism in the 21st century and how the "Empire of Normality" co-evolved alongside it thanks to eugenics and how an increasingly narrow definition of what is "normal" is shaped by capitalist production.

As @pdotb@wyrms.de outlined in their review, the concluding chapters into a way forward are quite broad, but dismantling neoliberal capitalism & "neuro-thatcherism" are grantedly quite big and in a sense far beyond the scope of what one book can provide.

Julia Shaw provides a good, high-level summary of many of the current challenges surrounding bisexuality, both in face of the majority heterosexual society as well as amongst queer culture due to "monosexual privilege". I'm not sure that the book is necessary what I'd have wanted or expected – as a lot of it mirror's Shiri Eisner's points already made in "Bi: notes for a bisexual revolution" (which I would recommend both for the political stance it takes as well as the contributions to queer studies).

At the same time, I do appreciate the efforts in making the topic accessible to a potentially broader audience and the points haven't lost their relevance at all (and are something I personally still struggle with in the form of "bisexual impostor syndrome").