I just joined a BIPOC book club that is starting up in Kjipuktuk, and this is our first read. I’ve been meaning to read it for a while now, so I definitely appreciate the added push!
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Doctorant et travailleur social basé à Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Profitant d'un mode de vie à l'abri des algorithmes manipulateurs des géants du web.
PhD student and social worker based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Trying to live a life less controlled by the algorithmic manipulation of the tech giants.
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Vincent Mousseau started reading Unapologetic by Charlene A. Carruthers

Hi all, here’s a little #Introduction post since I just switched instances to social.coop.
Bonjour! I’m Vincent (they/them). I’m a #Black, #queer and #trans social worker, #PhD student, and activist based in #Kjipuktuk, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq colonially referred to as #Halifax, NS.
You’ll find me kicking around the #fediverse and the rest of the internet:
Web: vincentmousseau.net
BookWyrm: @vmousseau@millefeuilles.cloud
PixelFed: @vmousseau@metapixl.com
WriteFreely: @vmousseau@paper.wf
Vincent Mousseau started reading Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney

Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney
A powerful, experiential journey from white cult to Black consciousness: Harrison Mooney’s riveting story of self-discovery lifts the curtain on …
Vincent Mousseau quoted Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
A study by the Pew Research Center found that if you fill your Facebook posts with “indignant disagreement,” you’ll double your likes and shares. So an algorithm that prioritizes keeping you glued to the screen will—unintentionally but inevitably—prioritize outraging and angering you. If it’s more enraging, it’s more engaging.
— Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Page 132)
Vincent Mousseau replied to Gersande La Flèche's status
@gersande Yes, I’m glad! Super down to discuss it once you get around to it!
Vincent Mousseau finished reading Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
This was an interesting read, and I’m still processing it. This book had a surprisingly poignant emotional impact on me, especially with how it deals with feelings of belonging, sense of self, and structure. I’m looking forward to ruminating over it a little more.
Also, yay for a single-day read!
Vincent Mousseau started reading Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
A passage in Johann Hari’s “Stolen Focus” really stuck with me. To paraphrase, they cited a study that showed that people who read fiction are often more empathetic than people who don’t. While I consider myself an empathetic person, I don’t really read a lot of fiction, even though I would like to. It can be hard for me to let go of all of the stresses of the world to wander into a fictional world. But I’ll be damned if I don’t try!
I went to my local bookstore and asked one of the workers for their recommendations in terms of fiction, and they shared that this book really made them think after finishing it. I can’t think of a more glowing recommendation. Excited to start reading!
Vincent Mousseau quoted Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
Empathy makes progress possible, and every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.
— Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Page 89)
Vincent Mousseau started reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
Is your ability to focus and pay attention in free fall?
You are not alone. The average office worker now …
Vincent Mousseau replied to Gersande La Flèche's status
@gersande At just over 100 pages, it's also a short read! You could finish it in an afternoon... I did the first time I read it! 🤓
Vincent Mousseau replied to Gersande La Flèche's status
@gersande Right?! This whole book is EVERYTHING!
Vincent Mousseau finished reading On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
Vincent Mousseau quoted On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
At the heart of Black people's calls for abolition is the desire to bring to a close the racial terror that we are subjected to and have been subjected to on a continuous basis since Columbus's initial voyages to the Americas. It is out of those epochal crossings, which led to the colonization of the Americas and to the large-scale, forced movement of Africans to its colonies, that many of our current attitudes, prejudices, ideas, and practices of property, contract law, insurance, banking, government, city planning, travel, customer service; indeed, all the networked elements of modern society arose. Foundational to all of it is property—private and public. It is property and our liberation from it that sets abolition apart as a philosophy capable of transforming our understanding of how to live differently together and how to reimagine what life and living can and should mean for all humans. Abolition as both an idea and a practice, then, is as epochal for the future as Columbus's voyages were for our collective past.
— On Property by Rinaldo Walcott (Page 86)
Du coup, dire de quelqu’un qu’il est un « homme noir », c’est dire qu’il est un être prédéterminé biologiquement, intellectuellement et culturellement par son irréductible différence. Il appartiendrait à une espèce distincte. Et c’est en tant qu’espèce distincte qu’il devrait être décrit et catalogué. Pour la même raison, il devrait faire l’objet d’une classification morale elle aussi distincte. Dans le discours proto-raciste européen dont il est ici question, dire l’« homme noir », c’est donc évoquer les disparités de l’espèce humaine et renvoyer au statut d’être inférieur auquel est consigné le Nègre, à une période de l’histoire au cours de laquelle tous les Africains ont un statut potentiel de marchandise ou, comme on le disait à l’époque, de pièce d’Inde.
— Critique de la raison nègre by Achille Mbembe (Page 112)