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43 reviews
The Hole We're in by Gabrielle Zevin
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry and Racial slurs
Moderate: Abortion, Infidelity, and Pregnancy
It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US by Alexander Laban Hinton
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Racism, and Racial slurs
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine
medium-paced
1.5
A decent introduction to the concept of neurosexism and the falsity of the "Testosterone Rex" theories of sexual dimorphism for those completely unfamiliar with them, but I was left wanting. This book was published in 2017 and managed to go 194 pages before mentioning trans people, once, in an easily overlooked single sentence at the very end of the book that doesn't even use the word "trans". Arguably, trans people are eluded to (and still not mentioned explicitly) in "a note about terminology", but only to say that they are not included or accounted for in this book. If your 200 page book on neurosexism and how the line between "male" and "female" is much blurrier than most people think can't account for the existence of trans people outside of excluding them (and can't even mention them til the end, and still only in a way that most people will miss), your book has, at best, painted an incomplete picture of its topics.
Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel W. Drezner
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
Stopped reading at page seventeen when the author — who ought to be familiar with what these things actually are — wrote “This project is explicitly prohuman, whereas Marxists and feminists would likely sympathize more with the zombies. To Marxists, the undead symbolize the oppressed proletariat. Unless the zombies were all undead white males, feminists would likely welcome the posthuman smashing of existing patriarchal structures.”
I wouldn’t describe myself as a Marxist, but a Marxist view of zombies would more likely view them as the bourgeois (literally leeching off of humanity and human work), or view them as an analogy for the impossibility of infinite capitalist expansion (you cannot have infinite growth of a planet with finite resources). The author’s view of feminism is especially wrong and frames it as “anti human” in contrast to this project’s “prohuman”. In my view, you cannot be truly prohuman without being a feminist.
I wouldn’t describe myself as a Marxist, but a Marxist view of zombies would more likely view them as the bourgeois (literally leeching off of humanity and human work), or view them as an analogy for the impossibility of infinite capitalist expansion (you cannot have infinite growth of a planet with finite resources). The author’s view of feminism is especially wrong and frames it as “anti human” in contrast to this project’s “prohuman”. In my view, you cannot be truly prohuman without being a feminist.
The Barrow Will Send What it May by Margaret Killjoy
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0