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Learned soooo much about soooo much, 4real

Very interesting journey into the shaping of !!!western!!! mindsets and approaches to nature from the 20th century to today. It's quite a deep philosophical question really, where we are set at the start of the book: what is the position of humankind in this planet we find ourselves in? how do we then relate to all other beings, to the non-human? are we, in a cartesian way, unique and different from all automata out there, and thus need to use nature to our whim to preserve our special human ingenuity? (the wizard) or are we just a being equal to any other, part of an interconnected, balanced system that must be honored and preserved? (the prophet)

it's crazy to see how this dichotomy is the underlying mechanism that will shape so many opinions and attitudes to the way societies should work! the author spends a lot of the book explaining how these 2 attitudes have shaped the advance of food, water, and energy technology in the 20th centuries and how they've been at odds with the other.

by the end i was a bit bored but it was a verrrry interesting read!!! so much relevant info about recent history and modern advances in science that i can't reproduce anymore dammit why does this always happen!!!

Sí sí sí más contenido crítico sobre el turismo! Un tema tan peliagudo, con tantas implicaciones políticas, económicas, y filosóficas, y qué difícil desenredar un poquito tal lío para poder sacar alguna conclusión satisfactoria.

Realmente no sé si es incluso posible sacar alguna conclusión satisfactoria, pero Anna Pacheco consigue desenredar un aspecto del temazo para que lo veas con un poquito más de claridad y para que te hagas más preguntas - and honestly that's the best we can ask for!

Muy interesantes reflexiones sobre al aspecto aspiracional de viajar y hacer turismo, y cómo fue parte de la manufacturación de la clase mediana (I came here to have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now!!). Además muy fuerte que para la investigación de este libro se coló en reuniones de gestión vs trabajadores de grandes hoteles de lujo en Barcelona y realmente parece ficción, parece SÁTIRA joder. Hace que quieras organizar la maldita revolución socialista que nos fue prometida contra los burgueses pero esque además el personal de gestión ni siquiera owns the fucking means of production!!! La ideología capitalista nos ha comido el cerebro y tenemos que hacer una reconcienciación de clase para sobrevivir la era de los millonarios!!!

I shit you not when I tell you this has become my Bible. My sacred text. I'm so moved. Dare I say spiritually shook.

This is a collection of 3 essays that show different ways in which indigenous language, knowledge, and wisdom allow humans to form a gratitude-, reciprocity-based relationship to the more-than-human. The author is a scientist herself and, while acknowledging the scientific language as a helpful tool, urges us to interact with the world in this intuitive way that we experience when truly immersed in nature. Urges us to see nature not as "it" but as a complex web of life buzzing with wisdom that must be respected and honored. Urges us to take mindfully, and to find the ways in which we can give back.

Honestly I find it hard to put into words how beautiful this worldview is, how much it spoke to me, how I want to embody this, spread the word (truly I sound like a convert!!). Like this book features the rules of the Honorable Harvest and I swear this will become my Our Father. As a secular late-stage capitalism girlie I feel like this is the kind of stories and narratives of the world that fill my spirit with meaning, gives me a sense of communion and belonging, inspire me, give me direction. This truly IS my Bible, fight me!!!!!!

A ver... Nunca no me va a gustar un texto sobre bolleras intensas siendo bolleras intensas. Y el libro es una buena reflexión sobre las formas diferentes en las que se vive el deseo, la relación intimísima e inseparable entre desear a la otra y percibirte a tí misma, y por supuesto, la (potencialmente confusa) interacción y aproximación de dos seres deseantes: la seducción.

Pero debo decir que me costó conectar con la prosa poética que forman los pensamientos de la protagonista, o con la historia. No sé, quizás había mucha poesía-ensayo y poca tensión? Y aún así las partes de poesía-ensayo no incitaron mucha respuesta emocional en mí, no sé por qué. Lo que más me movió fue quizás las partes en las que se deja ver los momentos de pésimo autoestima de la protagonista, lol (we can all relate!)

Pero bueno, sigue siendo una historia de bolleras intensas viviendo en un paraíso mediterráneo sin trabajo ni precariedad; un buen acto de escapismo y un must para la mitología e historia lésbica española!

Very very impressed by the beautiful writing in this book. An often heartbreaking, often inspiring, revision of hegemonic interpretations of the Quran to enrich them with new perspectives that consider queerness, womanhood, and overall the "other" that has been forgotten, e.g. women in the Quran that are mentioned just in passing.

It's beautiful to see the Quran, a text that is open to being reinterpreted over and over again, being looked at from the perspective of a queer Muslim woman. What is beautiful is that now queer Muslim women are starting to have a voice, a platform; they're starting to emerge from the darkness of oppressive history. Slowly, they are allowed to exist - enough to give their own interpretation of their sacred text, to reconcile their being and their faith. More of this please!!!

Last and also least... (white woman voice) As a white woman,,,,,, it is ALWAYS good to hear voices of other, less privileged women. This story is a humble reminder that my activism and solidarity must extend to "the other", that my experience doesn't equate to the experience of other (queer) women. I am in fact NOT every woman, Chaka Khan!!!