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Carmine Conelli: Il rovescio della nazione (Paperback, Italian language, Tamu Edizioni) 3 stars

"La negazione dell’altro interno, meridionale, nel processo di unificazione (...) ha notevolmente contribuito all’identificazione tra …

necessario e interessante

3 stars

anche molto bene e ben scritto e credo sia importantissimo, ora come ora, riconoscere come il colonialismo sia stato ed è uno strumento usato sia per incentivare problemi interni che per mascherare alcuni aspetti della nostra cultura.

e che, come sempre, le napoletane e i terroni hanno più in comune col sud del mondo che il nord.

ci sono stati rallentamenti nella lettura dovuti ad alcuni capitoli un poco troppo pesanti teoria. gramsci con la pala e quindi mi scendeva quella uallera che solo gli accademici di sinistra so capaci di farmi scendere.

per fortuna, il libro non è tutto così. <3

Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta: The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Paperback, 2019, Nightboat Books) 5 stars

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by …

inspiring

5 stars

it is a very fun and interesting reading. it is a playful joy to read it and you can easily do it in one session. it also really inspired me narratively because both storytelling and the language are uniquely queer. i would love to find more quirky speculative fiction like this.

Aph Ko, Syl Ko: Aphro-ism (Paperback, 2017, Lantern Books) 3 stars

In this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks …

transpositions are never easy

3 stars

i love the ko sisters and i love everything they say and talk about and also the way they write and basically i love what's in this book.

what doesn't work for me is that it isn't really a book. it is more transferring a blog onto pages and well calling it a book lol.

which can work or not i guess. and it didn't really work for me this time.

it could and should have been a way smoother reading especially because im into everything they say and because the writing is super accessbile.

but i just was never fully engage and i dread finishing this sometimes.

now i need some cool fiction for detox.

Aviah Day, Shanice McBean: Abolition Revolution (Paperback, Pluto Press) 4 stars

George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive …

a good intro book with a nice twist in the end

4 stars

yep, as i said, it's a good book to gift to that friend of yours who just realised they were living in the matrix. it's uk focused and it has a nice intersectional historical analysis of "the movement".

the last two chapters are a surprise being slightly more "radical" and "direct" than the rest of the book saying that, you know, there is only so much we can talk about. at some point, we got to do shit.

Carmine Conelli: Il rovescio della nazione (Paperback, Italian language, Tamu Edizioni) 3 stars

"La negazione dell’altro interno, meridionale, nel processo di unificazione (...) ha notevolmente contribuito all’identificazione tra …

libro interessante e necessario per comprendere, imparare e/o ricordare meglio la nostra storia (parlo alle terrone) e ripulirla da quelle macchie di malato neoborbonico orgoglio che per quelche motivo ha preso piede negli ultimi anni.

ma aiuta anche a far riflettere estremiste come me sulla differenza tra "questo tipo di colonialismo" e quello meglio conosciuto che ha dato vita al concetto di razza e tutte le altre cose brutte che conosciamo.

insomma, se sei terronu, leggilo e magari ne parliamo alla fine.

Cindy Barukh Milstein: Try Anarchism for Life (2022, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness) 5 stars

Try Anarchism for Life revolves around a thought experiment: What are some of the many …

very very cute

5 stars

good and cute. nice little essay to help already-anarchists think more, but that could be also a nice little introduction for people who are not yet familiar with this way of life. and the illustrations are all so good! it would be amazing to wheatpaste them all around our dirty grey cities!

reviewed The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin (The Inheritance Trilogy, #1-3.5)

N. K. Jemisin: The Inheritance Trilogy (EBook, 2014) 4 stars

The Inheritance Trilogy omnibus includes the novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, The …

wow

5 stars

that was long. and beautiful and exciting. i want to be a queer deity now and make love with chaos and death.

i think i might have read of a canon short story called "not the end" somewhere. does anyone know if that's true? and where to find it?

commented on The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin (The Inheritance Trilogy, #1-3.5)

N. K. Jemisin: The Inheritance Trilogy (EBook, 2014) 4 stars

The Inheritance Trilogy omnibus includes the novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, The …

Content warning spoiler for third book

Amruta Patil: Kari (Paperback, 2008, DIABLE VAUVERT) 5 stars

They were inseparable – until the day they jumped. Ruth, saved by safety nets, leaves …

shouldn't be a fast read

5 stars

because of the format (tiny chapters of 4/5 pages) and the total number of pages, it kind of goes fast, but it def need a re-read or a slower-paced reading in the first place.

biopic with a hint of magic realism, our new fave comic book genre.

commented on The Inheritance Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin (The Inheritance Trilogy, #1-3.5)

N. K. Jemisin: The Inheritance Trilogy (EBook, 2014) 4 stars

The Inheritance Trilogy omnibus includes the novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, The …

oh, mate, such a sad ending. i enjoyed the deeper diving into the lore of this universe.

although, im a bit sad the "jump in time" between first and second book was so small. i would've love to see something more like an inter-generational saga lilith's brood's style. but, well, it is super good indeed anyway.

so excited to start the last book!