Mwasi Collectif Afroféministe
★★★½
In The End, It Was All About Love
by Musa Okwonga
Righteous Migrants: The poetic mythologizing is punctuatedly endearing while also infrequently connecting. My decade aligned most with “Today, Berlin Punches You In The Stomach” although the acts of racist aggression weren’t its most disturbing facet. Berlin is a self-righteous busybody gleeful to run you over to teach you … Read more
Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World
by Kate Johnson
★★★
Ghost Forest
by Pik-Shuen Fung
★★★★★
Afterparties
by Anthony Veasna So
★★½
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
★★★★½
A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
★★★½
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
by Amelia Horgan
Well intentioned but not damning nor transformative. There’s a flash of technosolutionism and ‘A taxonomy of slacking off’ in chapter 7 is embarrassing. Paraphrased: Some people take up smoking so they can take smoke breaks. Another thing you could do is learn a rare skill so your boss … Read more
We Do This ’til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
by Mariame Kaba
★★★★½
Boy Parts
by Eliza Clark
That broad church reinscribes racist, misogynist, ableist thought, while the pettiness appears authentic to the author. It is wry and vivid, too.
Migrations
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: History of Women Healers
by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English
★★★★½
Slippery Creatures
(The Will Darling Adventures #1)
by K.J. Charles
★★★½
The Futures of Feminism
by Valerie Bryson
In the introduction, after talking about trans rights, the overrepresentation of wealthy white women, and anticapitalism, she promotes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Emma Watson, and Sheryl Sandberg. Despite arguing for coalitions and solidarity in difference, Bryson gives immoderate space to anti-trans fearmongering in chapter 4. There’s a school report … Read more
Moi les hommes, je les déteste
by Pauline Harmange
Terne. Un chapitre entier est consacré à expliquer pourquoi le sexisme inversé n’existe pas. Le livre ne répond pas aux attentes du titre. Pour un texte résonnant, je lirais à la place un chapitre de Mona Eltahawy, « Violence ».
She Who Became the Sun
by Shelley Parker-Chan
★★★½
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture
by Amelia Abraham
★★★½
Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
★★½
Sorcières : La puissance invaincue des femmes
by Mona Chollet
L’auteure semble très fan du féminisme américain des années 1970. C’est presque en partie une biographie de Gloria Steinem qui est mentionnée 21 fois. Une autre partie est le récit complet d’intrigues tirées de livres, de séries télévisées, de films, d’articles du HuffPost. Sans surprise, elle ne comprend … Read more
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney
DNF 12%
Excruciatingly of another era. Starts from false premises, does not question that man must dominate nature and that progress follows a single inexorable path from hunting communalism to slave-owning states to feudalism to capitalism to socialism. Permanent growth and producing for an anonymous market remain the … Read more