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Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell

nati314's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

finalgirlfall's review against another edition

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3.0

interesting read. i kind of disagree with some of her points, but i also see where she’s coming from. tough stuff!

cianarae's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative

3.5

i appreciated the way this made me look at purity and my own attempts at it but damn is it wordy, theoretical, and jargon-y

tabbiecat's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

belovedsnail's review

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challenging slow-paced

3.0

A really good base idea, but it swiftly wanders into the unbearably academic and the thread isn’t really visible. Dttongest for the chapter on colonialism.

bailey_the_bookworm's review

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Really good and interesting stuff, just not the right read right now

emmaconstantly's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

c_genify's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

The beautiful cover art was really the icing on the cake with this one. I think this is about as accessible as theoretical writing on ethics can get. I enjoyed it a lot. 

wordnerdknitter's review against another edition

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I might come back to it someday! But it's quite academic and I just don't have the brain for it right now, and don't imagine picking it up in the super near future.

lizshayne's review

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced
…apparently this book took me over a year to read. 
Mostly because I had to highlight and think about and process it. And then keep going. 
I’m still thinking about it, what it means to do rather than (just) think and acknowledge the ways that we are all always already entangled. And impure. 
The bit about speculative disability futures got me. But then again, so did the frogs. 
It’s a book for thinking about and with, even if it’s written in what I think of as “high theory”. 
I finished it, but it’s not done with