trying to get back into reading after burning out on it in grad school, + brain fog.
probably art and queer stuff and music/sound design and disability justice (and pratchett). I have pretty bad ADHD and reserve the right to not finish stuff or read multiple things at once. You're not the boss of me.
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From the author of Fun Home—the lives, loves, and politics of cult fav characters Mo, …
It's fun to have these all in one book because the way the panels are written, it's like an endless scroll of plot
It's fun to have these all in one book because the way the panels are written, it's like an endless scroll of plot
In this sharp manifesto, veteran author and activist, Jude Doyle, reunites feminist and trans politics …
i preordered this but i'm recovering from surgery so i just keep looking at the fantastic cover while it sits on my coffee table (the title is glossy and embossed on a matte rainbow background)
i preordered this but i'm recovering from surgery so i just keep looking at the fantastic cover while it sits on my coffee table (the title is glossy and embossed on a matte rainbow background)
A civil rights advocate for people with disabilities describes the congenital neuromuscular disease that rendered …
I wanted to recommend some books throughout Disability Pride Month (July) and realized bookwyrm might be the easiest way to do it.
Too Late to Die Young really changed the way I think about disability and disability justice, and especially disabled activism and rage.
From the jacket: "The author isn't sure, but she thinks one of her earliest memories was learning that she will die."
really really really recommend this one.
I wanted to recommend some books throughout Disability Pride Month (July) and realized bookwyrm might be the easiest way to do it.
Too Late to Die Young really changed the way I think about disability and disability justice, and especially disabled activism and rage.
From the jacket: "The author isn't sure, but she thinks one of her earliest memories was learning that she will die."
really really really recommend this one.
This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and …
So I took a break from the bleakness of Who's Afraid of Gender? for something more fun.
Oh wait, turns out this book is about silicon valley techbros and every chapter makes me madder and madder. Effective altruism, etc.
Yesterday I was sitting at the park and it was a beautiful day. I sat there reading about Ray Kurzweil's vision for humans to colonize the entire universe with nanobots until they kill everything and turn everything into nanobots "and that's when the universe wakes up" and just sat there, horrified. I looked around at all the leaves on the elms, the blades of grass, thinking, all of this would just be gone. But that's okay, you'll still be around, with your brain uploaded to a computer. As if that's really you. Oooof. And Kurzweil doesn't understand the brain. "It's what, a terabyte? How hard can it be?"
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So I took a break from the bleakness of Who's Afraid of Gender? for something more fun.
Oh wait, turns out this book is about silicon valley techbros and every chapter makes me madder and madder. Effective altruism, etc.
Yesterday I was sitting at the park and it was a beautiful day. I sat there reading about Ray Kurzweil's vision for humans to colonize the entire universe with nanobots until they kill everything and turn everything into nanobots "and that's when the universe wakes up" and just sat there, horrified. I looked around at all the leaves on the elms, the blades of grass, thinking, all of this would just be gone. But that's okay, you'll still be around, with your brain uploaded to a computer. As if that's really you. Oooof. And Kurzweil doesn't understand the brain. "It's what, a terabyte? How hard can it be?"
The singularity is just an apocalypse fantasy.
And then he says obviously every civilization would end up here so that's why there is no other intelligent life. So everything is ours for the taking.
I hate this so much! How have so many people been lapping up his guy's bad ideas for so many years?
if i don't finish this book it's because I got too enraged. i probably won't write an annoyed rant about every chapter but >_<
Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably …
i have been kinda taking a break from this book because right now Louis is having a great exploratory time in the 70s and i want him to have a good time for a little while longer </3
Tarot is best used as a tool for self-discovery, healing, growth, empowerment, and liberation. Tarot …
i liked how this gave alternative readings to cards, especially around masculine and feminine in reads of the court cards and some of the major arcana. i do wish it had a chapter at the end with some suggestions of spreads and queries. felt like it kind of ended abruptly. also the example deck was a bit of an odd choice. i was glad i had a more traditional set of cards in front of me to reference.
wow i was starting to think i was never going to finish a book ever again
i'm stewing a bit on the repeated apparent contradiction in the oppressive movements described in the book between "they are trying to control you with gender ideology", that academia etc is trying to control people into believing dogmas; and the idea that the ability to transition or have reproductive rights are based on an "excessive" liberty that people don't actually have a right to...
i know the contradiction is often the point but to see it laid out plain. "freedom" is only for certain people.
i'm stewing a bit on the repeated apparent contradiction in the oppressive movements described in the book between "they are trying to control you with gender ideology", that academia etc is trying to control people into believing dogmas; and the idea that the ability to transition or have reproductive rights are based on an "excessive" liberty that people don't actually have a right to...
i know the contradiction is often the point but to see it laid out plain. "freedom" is only for certain people.
need something to read to temper the judith butler that is very upsetting
Republishing Allen Strange's Electronic Music: System, Techniques and Controls, has been a four-year project since …
Strange's writing is extremely approachable and all the concepts are applicable today. Many of the modular synth examples are even still commonly used. It's like having a (really technical) conversation about synthesizers with a friend.
Strange's writing is extremely approachable and all the concepts are applicable today. Many of the modular synth examples are even still commonly used. It's like having a (really technical) conversation about synthesizers with a friend.
Join Stuart Little on his adventures and some misadventures! as he grows up (not too …
I hadn't read this before and a friend sent it to me. I loved the illustrations. Also Stuart's brother George is extremely ADHD and I am in this novel and I don't like it. (don't like relating to George, do like book)
I hadn't read this before and a friend sent it to me. I loved the illustrations. Also Stuart's brother George is extremely ADHD and I am in this novel and I don't like it. (don't like relating to George, do like book)
I read this before I send it off to my mom who has been kind of struggling with my transition stuff and needs help learning about it. I don't know how it'll go over. This might be hard to read for folks like me who need their parents to read it as the mother in the story takes SO LONG to come to terms with her son's transition. But it is based on a true story and I think that it's all pretty genuine and raw. The artwork in it is gorgeous.
I read this before I send it off to my mom who has been kind of struggling with my transition stuff and needs help learning about it. I don't know how it'll go over. This might be hard to read for folks like me who need their parents to read it as the mother in the story takes SO LONG to come to terms with her son's transition. But it is based on a true story and I think that it's all pretty genuine and raw. The artwork in it is gorgeous.
