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A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your …
This book is essentially the transcription of a lecture Coel gave a couple of years ago you can find for free online:
The only extras are a little introduction and a little afterword. Nice, but not essential. Not sure why this books physically exist to be honest, but, well, whatever.
We are The White Pube and this pamphlet presents our✨ideas for a new art world …
I mean, they say "radical" things, but nothing new really. But they do it in a enjoyable and very readable way. It would be much nicer if this little pamphlet would be distributed freely both digitally and physically though. But, well, maybe they're not "that" radical, aren't they?
Cabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that’s …
So, in my opinion, the novel format kind of fails her. But, you know, I guess it's a matter of taste. Would suggest to read an excerpt first. Would appeal you more if you're a migrant or of migrant background and if you live in the UK.
Ever since the Zapatista’s shook the New World Order with their uprising in 1994 they …
the EZLN were amazing storytellers? This communiques smell of magic realism.
Available for the first time in a single volume, the two influential and well-circulated pamphlets …
I wasn't expecting to be so mindblowned by it. I've learnt many things and understood better many others. This is a short and necessary reading for everyone. And for you in particular. Yes, you.
What does it mean to “queer” the world around us? How does the radical refusal …
The introduction already hooked me soooo much! Love it.
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive …
However, I can't really see the necessity of inserting the police in it...
In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by …
I mean, I love them and I was waiting for this book soooo much.
But it ends up being letters to family and friends in which they discuss many personal things. Things we already know because they inevitably became part of their previous books already.
On top of that, we sadly get to know more of them. A darker side in my opinion. One that is so attached to money and capital and possessiveness of all sorts.
It made me feel very uncomfortable sometimes. Especially given this is a book covered in magic written by a god.
I would say read anything else from Emezi but this.
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In Mask Off, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned into. Using examples of non-Western …
"Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they are not taught the art …
In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by …
So, pretty early to do a comment, but I don't know what to think.
I read Freshwater maybe a month before this was announced. I felt mesmerised by the book and was so happy to know Dear Senthuran was going to be a spiritual sequel, the non-fiction book they were meant to write when working on Freshwater.
But.
I just read a chapter when they share a magic spell with all of their readers who want to be writers. A spell to make... money? I felt like being 15-year-old again and getting hyped while watching Grant Morrison saying the exact same thing.
Problem is I'm a bit over that shit.
Then, in the next chapter, they keep talking about money adding stuff like "you have to put the work, work hard, work every day, I had already two books ready before publishing the first one". All of that motivational crap …
So, pretty early to do a comment, but I don't know what to think.
I read Freshwater maybe a month before this was announced. I felt mesmerised by the book and was so happy to know Dear Senthuran was going to be a spiritual sequel, the non-fiction book they were meant to write when working on Freshwater.
But.
I just read a chapter when they share a magic spell with all of their readers who want to be writers. A spell to make... money? I felt like being 15-year-old again and getting hyped while watching Grant Morrison saying the exact same thing.
Problem is I'm a bit over that shit.
Then, in the next chapter, they keep talking about money adding stuff like "you have to put the work, work hard, work every day, I had already two books ready before publishing the first one". All of that motivational crap "experienced" writers tell to aspiring one.
And I'm even more speechless.
There are still beautiful passages about family relations and their spirit affirming surgery. I'm confused nonetheless.
Am I being just a huge asshole?
Would love to hear from other fan of Emezi. Especially if you've already finished this book.
Peace.
Lola Olufemi explores state violence against women, the fight for reproductive justice, transmisogyny, gendered Islamophobia …
The book doesn't actually really say anything new. But the way they say it. Oh mama! Please radicalise me all, radicalise me now.
"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese …
The first story was terminally boring. I left it on my virtual shelf for a while now.
Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin …
Again, an amazing speaker, an unbelievably good performer, a tremendously boring book. I mean, most of the stuff mentioned in here you can find it in their talks or drag performance (which I strongly advise you to attend somehow in the future). But, well, then it becomes a book because I guess "it's one of the step of every human being nowadays" and it's so difficult to reach the end of the page...
Written by sex educator and body-positivity advocate Ruby Rare, Sex Ed is the practical and …
I love Ruby Rare and I've been to many of her workshops as well as constantly following her instagram page. And the book itself is very informative and interesting.
But I took ages to read it all with moments I had to push myself to go through because it's not engaging at all.
And I know she is personally super engaging. But maybe not in a writing form? She could've made a series of 30 video essays and I would've probably binge-watched them all overnight.
But it seems like publishing a book is a must for everyone nowadays so...
Sad. Lost opportunity in my opinion.