★★½ – Page 3

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

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

The Vanished Birds

by Simon Jimenez

★★½

Upright Women Wanted

by Sarah Gailey

★★½

The Only Good Indians

by Stephen Graham Jones

★★½

Woman on the Edge of Time

by Marge Piercy

★★½

How the Chinese Created Canada

by Adrian Ma

A casual and loosely informative read with moments of appealing to the colonialist state. The humorous asides are painful.

Axiom’s End

by Lindsay Ellis

** spoiler alert **

Monday’s Not Coming

by Tiffany D. Jackson

★★½

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race

by Jesmyn Ward

“Black and Blue” by Garnette Cadogan is the highlight ★★★★★

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

by Amanda Montell

There is a lot of repetition of the linguist’s mantra describe don’t prescribe. Chapter eight includes a wincing mess about how we have rebellious sexist insults because our mothers were our first examples of authority figures who restricted our freedoms.