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

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Lilah Sturges, Meaghan Carter: Girl Haven (2021, Oni Press, Incorporated)
adrienne maree brown, micha cardenas: Atoms Never Touch (Paperback, AK Press Distribution)
Philip Gabriel, *removed*: Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Hardcover, 2022, Erewhon Books)

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Lia Taylor: Sigil Craft (Hardcover, 2023, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.)
Margaret Killjoy: We Won't Be Here Tomorrow (2022, AK Press Distribution)
Beth Maiden: All Of Our Stories (Paperback, little red tarot)

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Mark Jackson: Sigils (2021, Green Magic Publishers, Green Magic)
Sim Kern: The Free People's Village (2023, Levine Querido)
Becky Chambers, Emmett Grosland: Prayer for the Crown-Shy (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Macmillan Audio)

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commented on Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi: Dear Senthuran (Paperback, Riverhead Books)

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 …

quoted Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi (Outspoken by Pluto)

Lola Olufemi: Feminism, Interrupted (EBook, 2020, Pluto Press)

Lola Olufemi explores state violence against women, the fight for reproductive justice, transmisogyny, gendered Islamophobia …

Feminism can no longer remain a rhetorical tool: it must have teeth. It must fight back by providing us with a way of analysing global violence and laying the foundations to combat it.

— Feminism, Interrupted by  (Outspoken by Pluto)

reviewed Life as a Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi

Amrou Al-Kadhi: Life as a Unicorn (Paperback, 4th Estate)

Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin …

Similar issues I had with Ruby Rare's book.

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...

reviewed Sex Ed by Ruby Rare

Ruby Rare: Sex Ed (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)

Written by sex educator and body-positivity advocate Ruby Rare, Sex Ed is the practical and …

A series of video essays might have been better.

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.

reviewed The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy (Danielle Cain, #2)

Margaret Killjoy: The Barrow Will Send What it May (Paperback, Tor.com Publishing)

Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle …

Still good, but you know.

I love a queer family. I love a good demo hunting. Still, would be nice to see more of that community we encountered in the first book. I understand that Americans are still stuck with their road trip adventures, but, you know, they could potentially find different stories on the way, couldn't they?