Why can't I read all these books!? 🍋🟩
🍵 Lots of nonfiction, literary fiction, poetry, classical literature, speculative fiction, magical realism, etc.
📖 Beaucoup de non-fiction et de fiction, de poésie, des classiques, du spéculatif, du réalisme magique, etc.
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91% complete! Gersande La Flèche has read 11 of 12 books.
In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest …
Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.
The notion that everyone wants sex—and that we all have …
"Wait-what's wrong with rights? Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people …
Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology …
Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.
@battlepoet Hmmm, okay. I am kind of tired of love as the primary motivation in books (...that sounds wild when I write it down but I think it's true?) but I'm definitely down to try reading The Sorceress and the Cygnet. Adding it to my... far-too-tall TBR.
@battlepoet Do you have a favourite amongst the ones you've read? Maybe I'll start with that one!
Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.
Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.
The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of …
Don't mind me I'm currently running through the Philosophy Tube Transhumanism episode bibliography and adding pretty much everything I haven't read to my TBR.
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.
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.
Archived at Strange Horizons here: strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-truth-about-owls/
This story was first published in Kaleidoscope, edited by …
Content warning Includes a quote from the story, do not click if you have not read this sublime short story yet.
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.
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.
@battlepoet Why is this author ringing a bell? 🤔
@battlepoet Yes please!
