Gersande La Flèche wants to read Gender Trouble (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Judith Butler
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender …
I think I have this somewhere. I need to read this.
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Gersande La Flèche wants to read The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman
This is actually a book I've been meaning to read for a while, since I took a feminist epistemology course in undergrad (checks time piece err, a few centuries ago now). It popped up in a recent Philosophy Tube video and the name of the author, Carole Pateman, reminded me of reading excerpts of her a million years ago. She's a second-wave feminist, so there is a lot to criticise too (I mean, let's not kid ourselves, Pateman hates sex workers, trans people, and a lot of queers), but I also think the book is an important puzzle piece in the philosophical discussion around what we owe each other as humans and deconstructing big time the ideas behind the Enlightenment-era social contract theory that, among other things, our legal system is arguably built on.
Gersande La Flèche finished reading The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar
Archived at Strange Horizons here: strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-truth-about-owls/
This story was first published in Kaleidoscope, edited by …
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She swallows them down, all of her good wants, how much she misses her father and how much she misses just talking, in any language, with her mother, and how she misses the light in Riyaq and the dry dusty air, the sheep and the goats and the warmth, always, of her grandmother and uncles and aunts and cousins all around, and she makes an anthology of them. She gathers the flowers of her wants all together in her throat, her heart, her belly, and trusts that they are good.
Gersande La Flèche started reading The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar
Archived at Strange Horizons here: strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-truth-about-owls/
This story was first published in Kaleidoscope, edited by …
Rereading again (read for the first time in 2020: gersande.com/blog/reading-log-on-the-truth-about-owls-by-amal-el-mohtar/) because this short story has been on my mind recently.
Gersande La Flèche started reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the …
I've been thinking so much about the ethics of true crime (not necessarily as a positive force for society, is the chief thought there) as a genre lately that it occurred to me that I still haven't read any of Truman Capote's work. This is an attempt to fix that.
I am now on page 75 of this book, and as I leaf through the pages and see my progress since April I am noticing so many scribbles in the margin. I'm very far from being a legal scholar myself but this book is very interesting and well-written. I need to get back to it!
Gersande La Flèche started reading Banning Transgender Conversion Practices by Florence Ashley
I am now on page 75 of this book, and as I leaf through the pages and see my progress since April I am noticing so many scribbles in the margin. I'm very far from being a legal scholar myself but this book is very interesting and well-written. I need to get back to it!