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Gersande La Flèche

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💬 they/them ; iel/lo

🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc. English, French, and many translations.

📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction, de fiction littéraire, de poésie, de classiques, de spéculatif, de réalisme magique, etc. Lecture en anglais et en français, et beaucoup de traductions.

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Gersande La Flèche's books

2023 Reading Goal

92% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 13 of 14 books.

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Because Internet (2019) No rating

When we thought of language like a book, perhaps it was natural that we were worried and careful about what we enshrined in it. But now that we can think of language like the internet, it’s clear that there is space for innovation, space for many Englishes and many other languages besides, space for linguistic playfulness and creativity. There’s space, in this glorious linguistic web, for you.

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Love the conclusion of this book!

Operation Mindfuck (2022, OR Books, LLC) 1 star

Mind control. Satanic rituals. Unspeakable sexual perversions. Supervillains eating children’s brains. A divine mandate to …

Content warning CW for QAnon; Conspiracy Theories

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Park Cruising (2023, House of Anansi Press) 4 stars

Queer people know that risk is a continuum and not a binary. We know the activities that bring us joy and fulfillment can turn, in a moment, to danger, violence, ridicule. Many of the things we do are on a spectrum of risk: holding hands on King Street, coming out to our colleagues, booking a stay at a bed and breakfast. Even ordering a cake carries the risk of rejection and shame. One of the great gifts queer people have given the world has been to translate our intimate knowledge of risk into public health policy. The spectrum of risk was visible from the early days of the AIDS crisis, when we started distributing condoms and refusing to preach abstinence. It is equally visible in the work of drop-in centres, needle exchange programs, sharps boxes, and supervised injection sites.

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We Do This 'Til We Free Us (Paperback, 2021, Haymarket Books) 5 stars

A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer …

Remember again, the systems live within us. The punishment mindset is very hard to get out of. And it's normal and healthy often to want vengeance against people for causing you great harm. That's not going to get addressed in an accountability process. If you are the one who is rushing after that, and that's really what you're seeking, an accountability process really would not help. You're always going to be feeling as though it's "not working" because it's not doing the thing that you really would like. And I really want to make people understand that. Not everything should be in an accountability process. Not everything can be resolved in an accountability process. Accountability processes often feel terrible to the people while they're in it. It's not a healing process. It might put you on the road toward your own personal healing.

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Going Clear (2013, Vintage Books) No rating

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …

Content warning CW: Scientology; High-Demand Religious Movements and Cults

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Going Clear (2013, Vintage Books) No rating

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief is a 2013 non-fiction book about …

Content warning CW: Scientology; High-Demand Religious Movements and Cults

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Palestine Laboratory (2023, Verso Books) No rating

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine

Israel’s military industrial complex uses …

Content warning CW for the US and Israeli killing of civilians (including children) with drones

Palestine Laboratory (2023, Verso Books) No rating

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine

Israel’s military industrial complex uses …

"Battle-tested over Gaza" was a badge of honor. Canada under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau purchased Elbit-made Hermes 900 drones worth US$28 million in late 2020. This drone was first tested during the 2014 Gaza war. Canada claimed that the drones would be used for surveillance purposes in the Arctic "to detect oil spills, survey ice and marine habitats." The equipment would help "to keep our waters clean and safe." The deployment of the Hermes was for civilian purposes, but a leading Israeli arms manufacturer benefitted from the deal.

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Quick mention of a Canadian connection to the Palestinian occupation, muddying Canada's claims to being "a big friendly green" country.

Palestine Laboratory (2023, Verso Books) No rating

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine

Israel’s military industrial complex uses …

The unstated goal of the IDF information strategy is weaponizing Jewish trauma in the service of perpetuating occupation. Through countless posts and memes, the IDF believes that highlighting the sacrifices that Israel makes in its never-ending battles with the Palestinians is a winning way. In this logic, Palestinians have no right to be angry about their plight and their trauma is nonexistent. Resisting the occupation is thus rendered illegitimate. (...) There was hope at the birth of the digital revolution that being able to film and disseminate photos and videos of Israeli abuses in Palestine might help the Palestinian cause. There is no doubt that global awareness of the occupation has soared, and that this has been partly assisted by the raw, unedited vision of Palestinians interacting with settlers or the Israeli army. Yet there is also a large body of evidence that hard, visual imagery has been co-opted by the Israeli state to deny the reality of what Palestinians say they are experiencing. The Israelis claim that Palestinians are lying about their circumstances despite what we're all seeing. Being able to see Israeli atrocities against Palestinians doesn't work with people who do not view Palestinians as human beings (...). As the Israeli population has moved to the right, moral discomfort is rare.

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Dehumanization starts by morally wounding oneself, morally hindering one's senses.