by Julian K. Jarboe
★★½
Monthly archives: December 2020
2020 Reading Stats
- I read 126 books plus 33 short stories from 19 countries
- 73% of the fiction was SFFH
- 77% of the authors were women
- 80% of the authors were people of colour
Authors
- ⬤ Women of Colour 89 (56%)
- ⬤ White Women 24 (15%)
- ⬤ Nonbinary POC 1 (1%)
- ⬤ Nonbinary White
Black No More
by George S. Schuyler
Unsubtle satire on the wages of whiteness, in pace with the ’30s in its portrayal of women
Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
by Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker
★★½
Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us
by C.N. Lester
★★★½
Jackalope Wives and Other Stories
by T. Kingfisher
★★★½
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
by Ijeoma Oluo
★★★★½
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
by Ava Homa
★★★★½
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
by Joshua Whitehead (Editor)
★★★
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
★★★★
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
★★★½
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
★★★★
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
by Alice Wong (Editor)
★★★★½
Heimat
by Nnedi Okorafor
★★
You Exist Too Much
by Zaina Arafat
★★★★★
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All
by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, Jamia Wilson
The audience in mind swings back and forth between middle grade and middle aged. It’s lean in activism that is specifically not anticapitalist. There is a fair amount that is useful but the moments of cringe are overpowering. A selection:
- ‘Standing up for