by Sarah Gailey
★★½
Monthly archives: October 2020
Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
by Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang
★★★★½
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
by Lindy West
★★★½
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
by Zen Cho
Not half a sneeze of subversion in this recreated patriarchy. Body shaming and threats of genital mutilation serve as comedy.
Finna
by Nino Cipri
★★★
A Spectral Hue
by Craig Laurance Gidney
★★★★
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by Angela Chen
★★★★
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
by Vandana Singh
★★★★½
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall
★★★½
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe
by Akwugo Emejulu (Editor), Francesca Sobande (Editor)
Highlights:
“Those Who Fight For Us Without Us Are Against Us: Afrofeminist Activism in France” by Cyn Awori Othieno and Annette Davis on behalf of Mwasi Collectif In France self-labelled antiracist organisations along with the status quo cry ‘reverse racism’ not just when trying … Read more
The History of White People
by Nell Irvin Painter
The history of fragile white men stroking each other’s egos with pseudoscience, insisting too much. The book is drily informative with interspersals of bemusingly casual commentary, ironic speech, and belaboured listings of abuse-as-scholarship. The last chapter jumps sixty years, promotes exceptionalism, and asks naive questions for the … Read more