Book nerd, cat person, tree hugger. Intersex, queer & disabled. Pronouns: ze/zer or she/her
I appreciate book recommendations of: 1. Futuristic sci-fi books where we actually mitigate climate change. 💚 2. Hard sci-fi but with queer/feminist gender politics. (I want more Expanse 😭 ) 🛰️🏳️⚧️ 3. Stories with quality intersex representation that do not contain sexual violence. 💜
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Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped …
Read as part of QueeReads Montreal. Cute but I was frustrated by the conflation of being "truly in love" with "wildly in love" especially coming from an aspec character :\
Per the title. The genre isn't really my cup of tea. The book bills itself as stories about marginalized scientists and only a couple of stories actually fit this bill. It's run of the mill sci-fi short stories. Don't go in expecting stories about Rosalind Franklin, you will be disappointed. If you want that, "Woman Scientists in America" by Rossiter is what you should be picking up instead.
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and …
It took me ages to finish but I'm glad I read it! I learnt so much cool stuff!
Read as part of QueeReads. Not a plot-oriented book. VERY canlit-y. Still enjoyed it and it was very much the right kind of book for the state I was in (brought cat to the ER and waiting around to see if she'd pull though (and she did))
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. …
Guessing at the start/end dates. Started strong but petered out in a way that was rather than unsatisfying. Found it on a list of books with intersex rep, and I think this is inaccurate - Swan is trans/altersex (she intentionally transitions to mixed sex characteristics). She is not intersex. Some of the other characters /might/ be intersex but it would really more accurately be varsex representation than intersex because they're not really specified as intersex, just that they have variant sex characteristics. I did appreciate reading a book where being varsex was so normalized that the cause of the sex variation (i.e. natural genetics, intentional transformation, etc) wasn't worth mentioning in the bulk of the cases.
This month's pick for Intersex Book Club. A little nervous because I've been told there's SV at the beginning, but thinking I should get reading anyway.
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic …
Overall enjoyed it. Read as part of Intersex Book Club. I found the time jumps rather jarring, and the ending felt rushed. Will probably read the others in the series though.
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it …
Another theory book I had high hopes for that I was disappointed by. :\
"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her …
Start/end dates approximate. Read as part of Intersex Book Club. Another fast read that needed so many content warnings
Ashley "Ash" Bishop has always known who he is: a guy who loves soccer, has …
Fast read, but oh boy this needs like all the content warnings. Read as part of Intersex Book Club
Fell out of the habit of tracking my reads and am trying to backdate things. Read this for Intersex Book Club. It's a run of the mill collection of science fiction, very little was relevant to the premise of "stories of marginalized scientists" :\
Went in with big hopes and was rather disappointed.
The intro has me jazzed. It really is frustrating how so many #intersex people will try to distance our community from disability and then are surprised Pikachu that we continue to have problems with pathologization, bodily autonomy, epistemic power, eugenics, etc. Positioning intersex as "not a disability" reinforces the medicalizing ableism that hurts both intersex and other disabled people.
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of …
I learnt a lot but came out with a bad taste in my mouth. The book was too often uncritical in ways that were frustrating. Like his discussion of agriculture in the Amazon: he couldn't just do the logical thing and promote landback. Also disappointing how he doesn't take indigenous sources of information like oral history seriously. Also also disappointing to see him treating Jared Diamond like a legitimate source 😬
