by Angela Y. Davis
★★★★
Monthly archives: August 2020
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
★★★★
Trickster Drift
(Trickster #2)
by Eden Robinson
My favourite of the trilogy. I laughed and smiled often. Eden Robinson does an amazing job at warmly folding you into the lives of these characters.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
by Becky Chambers
★★★½
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
by Bethany C. Morrow (Editor)
★★★★
Son of a Trickster
(Trickster #1)
by Eden Robinson
Harrowing, one of a kind, full of humour. I snickered (like Ernie) at the exchanges between Jared and Sarah.
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
by Lola Olufemi
An incisive work of Black feminism in Britain covering reproductive justice, trans inclusionary feminism, supporting sex workers, prison abolition, and—excitingly—art as witness. I would have been bowled over if the chapter on food concentrated on food justice with inspiration from Vandana Shiva. Olufemi envisages a living, breathing practice … Read more
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
by Vandana Shiva
First off, Shiva cannot seem to write without clobbering repetition. The heart of her ideas and activism, however, are galvanising and foundational. She has transformed the way I think about food justice and agroecology. She questions the sanctity of science and development and [reveals] that these are not … Read more
Axiom’s End
by Lindsay Ellis
** spoiler alert **
Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love
by Houria Bouteldja
She talks about colonialist principles being applied to Europe in WWII (Césaire), conditional absorption into whiteness, and revisionist histories—in riddling analogies and immoderate irony. She writes more straightforwardly about internalised racism and white men in Europe claiming to stand up for women only when they can pin patriarchal … Read more
Monday’s Not Coming
by Tiffany D. Jackson
★★½
Everything Belongs to the Future
by Laurie Penny
★★★
Or What You Will
by Jo Walton
★★★½