by Jackie Wang
★★★★★
Category archives: read
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
by Mona Eltahawy
★★★★½
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
★★★
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
by Rhonda Magee
My ambivalence about mindfulness took a dive exactly during her example of taking care of the feelings of a racist instigator (Dan) with equanimity.
The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
★★★★½
Kuessipan
by Naomi Fontaine
★★★
We Had No Rules
by Corinne Manning
★★★½
Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany
★★★★
Turtle Island: The Story of North America’s First People
by Eldon Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger
★★★★
Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism
by Himani Bannerji
I glazed over on the more academic chapters, which in general by my definition are too diffuse. When Bannerji writes of the personal, it’s harrowing and electric, to read about the everyday trailblazing of the author and of X.
Eczema Detox: The Low-Chemical Diet for Eliminating Skin Inflammation
by Karen Fischer
★★★★½
Radiant Voices: Feminist Storytelling for Rising Up
by Carla Bergman (Editor)
★★★★½
Polar Vortex
by Shani Mootoo
Frustrating and enveloping at the same time. The conflict is bewildering and the author slides in a few questionable ideas, but her writing and the way she builds the story draws you in—she writes male entitlement and whiteness cracklingly.
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
by Vandana Shiva
★★★★
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream
by Blair Imani
★★★★★
Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory
by Lise Vogel
Beyond this being a work of talking about talking about the subject, Vogel advances no paradigm shifts, away from the white supremacist- and imperialist-friendly conception of progress nor away from including slavery in the equation in the reproduction of labour-power. In 1983 she reviews thoughts from the late … Read more
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution
by Susan Stryker
★★★
Exhalation: Stories
by Ted Chiang
Many of the stories are glaringly built around a fixed idea so that the notes at the end are redundant—or are more interesting than the stories themselves. The surrounding texts are more filler than breathing worlds. “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, and … Read more
Flight
by Sherman Alexie
★★★
Songs for the End of the World
by Saleema Nawaz
Broadcasting the photo of a possible patient zero is alarming and hopefully agreed upon as unethical. Owen has professor-equivalent status and conducts himself grossly with students throughout; the sympathy he gets, which is expressed literally, makes him come across as an author stand-in. The women characters revolve around … Read more