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white queer anarcha-something migrant of worlds my reviews tend to be rants generally they/them
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What does it mean to “queer” the world around us? How does the radical refusal of the mainstream codification of …
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive …
Some of them will decide that they also want to be beautiful and free, like you. Some will fight for this, if they must. Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time.
— Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin (Forward Collection, #3)
In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by …
But the thing is, they don't see us. So, in using their eyes, not only do we unsee ourselves, but we also stop existing even for ourselves, which is such a cruel thing. What kind of looped violence? Fuck their eyes, may they bleed out of their heads. We deserve so much better, my love. I hope we find it all, and more. I can't wait to see what you turn into.
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...
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning …
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 three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, …
In Mask Off, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned into. Using examples of non-Western …
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 …
"Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they are not taught the art …
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"Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they …
There's a lot here that I have direct experience with or is adjacent to my experiences, and the cutting descriptions help crystallise my thoughts on masculinities and the issues around them, and how it relates to feminism. Well worth reading, particularly if you're struggling with your own masculinity. Sometimes it felt a little vague or hopeful without focus, which is probably useful for some people, but seemed a distraction to me.
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In Mask Off, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned …
A practical and honest book covering personal experiences but also speaking more widely about UK and more global masculinities. Overall a warming book. It's heartening to see records of similar experiences among men written about in such an open way. Well worth reading.
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In Indigenous Writes, Chelsea Vowel, legal scholar, teacher, and intellectual, opens an important dialogue about the wider social beliefs associated …
@pixouls@bookwyrm.social It looks like a very interesting reading.
