A review by katymul
x+y by Eugenia Cheng

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I was expecting something a bit more like Invisible Women, talking about ways that statistics and numbers can be manipulated to exclude gendered data. This book was something even more radical and accessible, though less targeted and practical. It was wonderful to live for awhile in this reimagined world where desirable and undesirable human behaviors were not only considered on a separate axis than gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. etc....but also considered separately from what behavior our culture CURRENTLY rewards to whether or not, on reflection, we should encourage those behaviors for better outcomes as a community. As a civilization. The book makes this new frame feel powerful, transformative, and possible. I hope she's right, and I appreciate the sections designed to help me do my part in small ways until we can figure out bigger institutional change.