reading account of @unsuspicious@anarchism.space
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and …
Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A world where overgrown forests are …
Wer in der Ost-West-Debatte mit Schuldbegriffen operiert, ist schon auf dem Holzweg
Von der Rettung jüdischer Kinder bis zur »Liquidierung« von Gestapospitzeln, von der Herstellung falscher Papiere bis zum Transport von Waffen …
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The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. …
Living well might feel impossible, and certainly living purely is impossible. The slate has never been clean, and we can't wipe off the surface to start fresh -- there's no "fresh" to start. Endocrine-disrupting soap doesn't offer a purity made simple because there isn't one. All there is, while things perpetually fall apart, is the possibility of acting from where we are. Being against purity means that there is no primordial state we might wish to get back to, no Eden we have desecrated, no pretoxic body we might uncover through enough chia seeds and kombucha. There is not a preracial state we could access, erasing histories of slavery, forced labor on railroads, colonialism, genocide, and their concomitant responsibilities and requirements. There is no food we can eat, clothing we can buy, or energy we can use without deepening our ties to complex webs of suffering.
This book champions the usefulness of thinking about complicity and compromise as a starting point for action.
— Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Page 11 - 12)
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
Inspired by Octavia …
The Eyre Affair
Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet …
It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox …
It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in …
this is beautifully written; I read the german translation and I imagine the original is even better. it talks mostly about love, in a heteroromantic way, but also love for a mother, life and music. I'll definitely read more by toni morrison.
Eine Lektüre, die an der Körperwahrnehmung und an den eigenen Gewissheiten rüttelt.
Die Erzählfigur in Blutbuch identifiziert sich weder als …
»Im Orgasmus vergehen Generationen.« Was passiert, wenn 18 Autorinnen aus mehreren Generationen sich gemeinsam über Sexualität und Begehren austauschen? …
Vor einigen Jahren ist in der radikalen Linken in Deutschland eine Strategiedebatte darüber entbrannt, wie die politische Arbeit von einer …
Means and Ends is a new overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between …
omg war das kitschig... aber trotzdem unterhaltsam, obwohl es sehr lang ist!
@tastytea@bookwyrm.social ahh I remember this, I listened to the identically named podcast once. where did you get it?
