by Jing Tsu
★★★
Tag archives: nonfiction
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
by Lola Olufemi
★★★½
Utopias of the Third Kind
by Vandana Singh
★★★½
Next Time There’s a Pandemic
Identités françaises : Banlieues, féminités et universalisme
by Mame-Fatou Niang
Chapitre 5, ‘De Bande de filles à Mariannes noires : universalisme et décolonisation des imaginaires’, était le plus solide
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by Ed Yong
★★★
An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
This is about working on building up emotional intelligence, including how to apologize, as a prerequisite for abolitionist organising
Sprache und Sein
by Kübra Gümüşay
Das erste Kapitel ist das stärkste, weil es persönlicher ist. Das ist auch tatsächlich mit der Linguistik verbunden. Die Museumsmetapher in Kapitel drei ist ellenlang. Der Rest besteht hauptsächlich aus handzahme Übersetzungen von Ideen aus englischsprachigen Texten.
Big Girl
by Meg Elison
★★★½
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
by Michaela Coel
★★★½
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
by Ibi Zoboi
★★★
Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
by Shakil Choudhury
★★★★
Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World
by Carolyn Steel
DNF 8%
She invokves fucking Malthus in chapter 1, extending the idea that reproduction rates and the ‘lack of infrastrucutre’ are responsible for hunger and food waste in the Global South, deflecting blame from neo/colonialist capture, wealth extraction, and exploitation. She has some puzzle pieces with decent stats … Read more
People Change
by Vivek Shraya
★★★★
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
by Derrick A. Bell
★★★★
Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself
by S. Bear Bergman, Saul Freedman-Lawson (Illustrator)
★★★
Know My Name
by Chanel Miller
★★★★
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
by Crystal Marie Fleming
★★★½
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction 1948–1985
by James Baldwin
★★★★
Je ne sais pas quoi faire des gentils blancs
by Brit Bennett
★★★★