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(she/her) I've started a lifelong phase focusing on books written by women of colour
=============== 2022 stats ===============
50% of the authors I read were women of colour 41% was nonfiction 60% of the fiction was SFFH 28% were published in 2022 83% were published in the last 10 years Read approximately 1675 pages over 34h from 165 abandoned books
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2023 Reading Goal
10% complete! kab has read 10 of 100 books.
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kab rated Vilaines filles: 4 stars

Vilaines filles. Les travailleuses du sexe, les clientes et la journaliste by Pauline Verduzier
La classification sociale des femmes en fonction de leur sexualité réelle ou supposée opère une distinction entre les « convenables …
kab reviewed Eleven by Patricia Highsmith
kab rated The Hacienda: 2 stars
kab rated The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction: 4 stars

The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction by Francesca T. Barbini
The Evolution of African Fantasy and Science Fiction is the second Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm …
kab rated Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.: 4 stars

Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the …
kab reviewed The Power by Naomi Alderman
kab rated Hood Feminism: 4 stars

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic …
kab rated Stone Butch Blues: 5 stars

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s …
kab rated The Haunting of Tram Car 015: 4 stars

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark's short fiction, where humans live and work …
kab rated You Have the Right to Remain Fat: 3 stars

You have the right to remain fat by Virgie Tovar
Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two …
kab reviewed Miss Buncle Married by D. E. Stevenson
kab rated Year of the Tiger: 5 stars

Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey …
kab reviewed Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
kab rated Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: 5 stars

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. …