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white queer anarcha-something migrant of worlds my reviews tend to be rants generally they/them

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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 …

wow, the last chapter on the first book is so wholesome. really, wasn't expecting that.

evemn though, as i must overthink, i feel there is one could be classified as a tansformative justice/accountability process right before a sentece to death in cold blood? that was odd?

Ben Tarnoff: Internet for the People (Paperback, 2021, Verso Books) 3 stars

In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet …

guess not what i was expecting

1 star

not saying the book is bad, more like pointless. despite the title, it just tells you about how the internet is NOT for the people (anymore?) has it ever been?). there's mentione on some good alternatives on different levels, but noting more. the seems vaguely radical, but the total lack of any mention of praxis or discussion around praxis make him sound just like any other reformist at the end of the day. so, yeah, disappointed.

Clarrie Pope, Blanche Pope: Welcome Home (Paperback, Autonomedia) 5 stars

Graphic novel about squatting, unrequited love and lost struggles, written with humor and driven by …

it kind of grows on you

5 stars

like, i wasn't totally sure about it at the beginning, but the story capture you no matter what and well it surprises you alright. also, i could relate a lot only to the shitty stuff happening to the ain character. lol. sad.

Sara Alfageeh, Nadia Shammas: Squire (Hardcover, 2022, Quill Tree Books) 4 stars

Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the …

not sure

3 stars

i mean, loads of anti-fantasy and anti-imperialist talk, but this story doesn't really do much beside changing the ethnicity of the characters. the key problems are still there and they dont seem to have been dealt with. there is almost an reformist vibe as well in the whole book. not sure what i've just read tbf.

Laura Gao: Messy Roots (Paperback, 2022, Balzer + Bray) 5 stars

After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, …

got to love the migrant experience

5 stars

nothing to say beside read it. beautiful. migrant life. blood family issues. home questioning. all kinds of identity journeys.

mate, i need to read more biopics. they're so good.

Jessi Zabarsky: Coming Back (Paperback, 2021, Random House Graphic) 4 stars

Preet is magic.

Valissa is not.

Everyone in their village has magic in their bones, …

good...

4 stars

... but not too good. if you're looking for something uplifting and cute, go for it.

i picked it up because it was in a list of "queer" graphic novel, but the only queer narrative i've seen was right at the end, so, yeah, not too queer neither.

Robyn Smith, Jamila Rowser: Wash Day Diaries (2022, Chronicle Books LLC) 5 stars

Wash Day Diaries tells the story of four best friends—Kim, Tanisha, Davene, and Cookie—through five …

i am davene, but without ride-or-dies

5 stars

beside the sad title, this books is very good, although too short for its own sake (or mine at least). despite being a self-contained story with a very nice ending, i feel this characters deserves way more pages than what they've got.

davene and nisha stories in particulare are just two set-ups that never paid off (davene more than anyone). and it would be also nice to see a no-police-related response to the kim's stalker situation.

anyway, loved it, i will keep an eye out for more from these authors in the hope they will bring these stories with them. :)

Ben Tarnoff: Internet for the People (Paperback, 2021, Verso Books) 3 stars

In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet …

so, the internet, although its research started for us military reasons ofc, it has been created through public fundings, global efforts, with an open-source politics in mind and used mostly for education and research purpose.

then, when its request skyrocketed and the us private sector started being interested, a bunch of politicians said "you know what, we just give everything up to the free market" without any condition and/or restriction whatsoever.

and here we are.

yeah, it might be a common story, but it's always infuriating to read in any shape or form. #eattherich

Blue Delliquanti: Across a Field of Starlight : (a Graphic Novel) (2022, Penguin Random House LLC) 4 stars

This graphic novel is an epic science fiction romance between two non-binary characters as they …

not on a sunbeam

3 stars

it's not nice to compare, but i always think of that when i see queer space opera in comic book format. nothing i can do.

love the characters, the setting and the queerness in it, but i feel like everything is wasted in yet another war story.

i feel like we could have narrated the same story from the civilians point of you, starting from the commune, and everything would have been much more compelling and interesting.

i like that it was a friendship story also, i guess voluntarily playing on the fact that we always automatically ship the main two characters just because that's how we are educated. well, i did at least, and i was happy to have been proven wrong.

Maia Kobabe: Gender Queer (GraphicNovel, 2020, Oni-Lion Forger Publishing Group) 5 stars

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics …

biopic done right

5 stars

the "prologue" is about em saying (at some point in eir life) that e would never work on an autobiography and you think "haha fun", but, well, jokes on us because there is so much untold in this book. and trust me when i say that, im an expert in hanging out with people for years without them really know much about me lol.

anyway, jokes aside, havent read a biopic in ages and this was a great come back. loved everything about it. also, it's so nice to follow other queer people identity journeys to discover traits in common, but also find out about things you never thought before.

highly reccomended, als if you're cis and straight. it's a very friendly and non-conflictual book so your fragilities won't be felt attacked. eheh!

adrienne maree brown: Grievers (Paperback, AK Press) 3 stars

A tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost …

still terribly confused

2 stars

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Margaret Killjoy: A Country of Ghosts (Paperback, 2021, AK Press) 5 stars

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. …

short and bittersweet

5 stars

it is still a story of war, but i like the attempt of showing how a "country" following anrchist principles might look like. this scenario, although fantasy, is much closer to us that the alien and very pragmatica annares (sorry, le guin, but that's true).

Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Talents (Paperback, 2001, Women's Press Ltd,The) 4 stars

Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage …

scientology origin story lol

3 stars

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