harun el rashid reviewed The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
super enjoyable queer feminist foray into science fiction and time travel. I won't spoil it but I just love how embodied the time machine is.
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harun el rashid reviewed Leaves of grass and other writings by Walt Whitman (A Norton critical edition)
4 stars
harun el rashid reviewed The problem with work by Kathi Weeks
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged …
5 stars
The Future of Another Timeline is a 2019 science-fiction novel by Annalee Newitz. The feminist …
Review of 'The Future of Another Timeline' on 'GoodReads'
4 stars
super enjoyable queer feminist foray into science fiction and time travel. I won't spoil it but I just love how embodied the time machine is.
harun el rashid reviewed The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Review of 'The Beauty Myth' on 'GoodReads'
3 stars
honestly some of the insights are helpful. i think a lot of trans exclusive works that try to talk about gender dynamics actually suffer a lot theoretically from failing to consider trans examples. Wolf unpacks how the pressure to be beautiful affects cisgender women in their work life, in culture, and in their self image. But one thing that is not adequately unpacked is how gender itself is defined and policed by the idea of beauty. This is a situation where a consideration of trans lives is important. Wolf mentions how the pressure to perform beauty properly is enforced by violence, but how does that pressure manifest differently if you are a woman who is 6' tall and has 5 o'clock shadow? How does the pressure to perform beauty manifest differently in trans men or nonbinary people, or intersex people for that matter? Beauty, and the hang ups people have …
honestly some of the insights are helpful. i think a lot of trans exclusive works that try to talk about gender dynamics actually suffer a lot theoretically from failing to consider trans examples. Wolf unpacks how the pressure to be beautiful affects cisgender women in their work life, in culture, and in their self image. But one thing that is not adequately unpacked is how gender itself is defined and policed by the idea of beauty. This is a situation where a consideration of trans lives is important. Wolf mentions how the pressure to perform beauty properly is enforced by violence, but how does that pressure manifest differently if you are a woman who is 6' tall and has 5 o'clock shadow? How does the pressure to perform beauty manifest differently in trans men or nonbinary people, or intersex people for that matter? Beauty, and the hang ups people have around it, tell us a story about more than the domination and objectification of women (though that is part of the story). It tells a story about how gender is created, performed, and enforced.
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and …
4 stars
harun el rashid reviewed The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
A collection fairy tales for young wizards and witches, with each story followed by observations …
1 star
harun el rashid reviewed Hiroshima by John Hersey
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on …
3 stars
4 stars
harun el rashid reviewed Kick-Ass by Mark Millar
harun el rashid reviewed Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Collection Ciboulette)
From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within …
5 stars
harun el rashid reviewed The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive …
4 stars
harun el rashid reviewed Batman Volume 1 by Scott Snyder (Batman Volume 2 (2011-2016), #Vol 1)
1 New York Times Best Seller!
Following his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective …
3 stars
harun el rashid reviewed Superman by Mark Millar
Strange visitor from another world who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel …
4 stars
harun el rashid reviewed Paper Girls. Vol. 3 by Brian K. Vaughan (Paper Girls, #3)
After surviving the strangest night of their lives in the Cleveland suburb of Stony Stream, …