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Siem

Siem@wyrms.de

Joined 3 years, 2 months ago

Hiya, I'm Siem (they/them). Also @heliotrope@weirder.earth

I'm very much a queer, feminist and ecological bookworm that's into nonficiton and SF so expect that from me :)

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Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah: Radical Dharma (Paperback, 2016) No rating

"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays …

Lama Rod: We're not here to reproduce comfort. You can go to a country club for that. (...) What we are seeing now, instead of folks owning that confusion, is that we try to bypass the chaos of the mud or the confusion because we see sanghas as being this really nice place we can relax, but it doesn't serve us actually. Like I said, you can relax anywhere. We wast sangha and community when we choose not to engage in discomfort associated with liberatory practice.

Radical Dharma by , , (Page 171)

It's good to hear it this straight, and this is totally not the message I got when I was introduced to meditation at first through more mainstream white teachers.

Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah: Radical Dharma (Paperback, 2016) No rating

"Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays …

Radical Dharma is insurgence rooted in love, and all that love of self and others implies. It takes self-liberation to its necessary end by moving beyond personal transformation to transcend dominant social norms and deliver us into collective freedom.

Radical Dharma by , ,

It starts of with this quote by Rev, angel Kyodo williams,

quoted Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy)

Jeff VanderMeer: Acceptance (2014, Macmillan) 3 stars

From the publisher---

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied …

Content warning Acceptance spoiler

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015) 4 stars

What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet

Matsutake …

I love this one, I read it in Paris (so romantic)

As much as it is about mushrooms, it is about trees, people, and systems (mostly capitlaism). And beyond thinking about what lives in the ruins of destruction, and in disturbed spaces, this books has been making me think about social translation or work as a form of translation, and about what it means to salvage.

reviewed Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach, #2)

Jeff VanderMeer: Authority (Paperback, 2014) No rating

"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, …

wowzers!

5 stars

This book really pulled me in. It's not just horror, it's not just mystery, it's weird and eerie. There's a tension and unease that makes this book hard to put down, sucking you in, making you want to know more about what's going on, but never quite delivering any a real answer to the eerie agency of Area X...