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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
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Dang, this was boring. Loved the cover and was drawn to that and the subject. But the author just made it so uninteresting to read. Someone else compared it to a very boring lecture about an interesting topic, and that's accurate. I started reading Mike Dash at the same time, and the way Mike Dash writes about history (in an incredible and enticing way, basically writing like it's fiction, but all accurate and true) made me DNF this one.
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Really important and radical analysis and argument about understanding “the failure of homosexuality as an identity and a political project” as part of a project of and movements towards a revolutionary queer future.
My biggest takeaway, apart from the transient definition of queerness, is that for most people whiteness is above all.
Intersectionality is more important than any single movement or else you'll find people who can slither under a single identity and then crush others to elevate themselves.
Intersectionality is more important than any single movement or else you'll find people who can slither under a single identity and then crush others to elevate themselves.
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I went into this book thinking that it was primarily an account of actually bad people in history who happened to be gay as opposed to simply gay people in history who were deemed bad by the societies they lived in. I was surprised to find that it is a mix of both. The writing is funny and engaging and the authors go to great lengths to add both humor and sincerity in the more discussion sections of this book. I am not usually a non-fiction person but this book has inspired me to look into more non-fiction and history books.
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This was really great! I wished there'd been more chapters on women but I learnt a lot not just about the individual people, but about the time periods they lived in too and how their sexualities and lives were shaped and differed in part due to the time they were living.