Much more about her own journey of growing up gay and poor among southern pentacostals, and the lifelong reckoning with all of it, than about the intended subject of the documentary she was working on
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left_adjoint reviewed Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks
Not what I expected, but good
4 stars
left_adjoint finished reading Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
left_adjoint rated Picture This: How Pictures Work: 5 stars
left_adjoint rated The remedy: 4 stars
Zena Sharman: The remedy (2016)
The remedy by Zena Sharman
"To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to …
left_adjoint rated Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands: 5 stars
left_adjoint reviewed Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Hits incredibly hard
5 stars
This was an incredible memoir about the grind of isolation and misogyny. I don't really want to talk too much about what happens but, like, there's a reason Carmen Machado is the first back-of-the-book blurb praising it.
left_adjoint wants to read The Future Is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The Future Is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disabled. Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about the last …
left_adjoint rated Upgrade Your Teaching: 2 stars
left_adjoint finished reading Upgrade Your Teaching by Jay McTighe
Not great. Despite being recommended to me as a book that applies neuroscience to education it mostly consisted of rather obvious points you would have noticed if you'd ever taught or learned anything (being upset makes it harder to learn? shocking!) but with vague bits of "and here's why neuroscience explains this thing we already knew since piaget"
left_adjoint rated Capitalist Realism: 2 stars
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …
left_adjoint rated Capitalist Realism: 2 stars
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …
left_adjoint wants to read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …
