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2024 Reading Goal

12% complete! Rayne has read 2 of 16 books.

Jules Gill-Peterson: Short History of Trans Misogyny (2024, Verso Books) 4 stars

This book is scathing to say the least.

The subject introduced as the topic of those affected most by transmisogyny is not the transfemme, transfeminine person, or the trans woman, but rather the trans feminized, which seems to offer an interesting peek as to where this analysis is going to go.

This book might require sitting with some discomforts to my own complicity in trans feminizing people who aren't trans feminine, and thus complicit in trans misogyny myself. But, those discomforts are often a good thing.

I'm so excited to read more!

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Angela Chen: Ace (2020, Beacon Press) 5 stars

Spero arrivi in italiano

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Ho scoperto questo libro da alcuni post nel fediverso e letto inizialmente una traduzione del capitolo In sickness and in health, che tratta dei rapporti tra asessualità e disabilità, sul blog del collettivo Carrodibuoi. Purtroppo non esiste ancora una traduzione in italiano. Fra i libri sull’asessualità è quello che mi ha colpito di più. Idealmente si pone a metà strada tra i saggi accademici che ho letto su quel tema, testi a volte illuminanti ma spesso troppo impersonali, e le raccolte di storie vissute da membri della comunità, in cui potevo trovare qualcosa in cui riconoscermi, questo è certo, ma spesso mi lasciavano confuso per la quantità di esperienze diverse che trovavo. Credo che il libro abbia tre scopi. Il primo, naturalmente, è descrivere l’asessualità a qualcuno che non conosce l’argomento, sia che il suo sia un interesse personale sia che sia spinto dalla semplice curiosità. Il secondo è evitare …

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reviewed A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea (Paperback, 1984, Bantam) 4 stars

Satisfying ending, but kind of a slog to get there

2 stars

I think I would've liked this more when I was 14.

I don't know what I was expecting with this, but I guess it wasn't a pretty bog standard fantasy wizard novel with all the trimmings, and more than a few tired tropes.

I suppose you could point out that this novel was written at a time when modern fantasy novel basically meant Lord of the Rings, when a lot of these tropes were new, and with this book Le Guin literally invented the young wizard coming of age subgenre.

You might even excuse the patriarchal society of Earthsea — including the shockingly unchallenged assertion that "women's magic" is weaker than "men's magic" — as a reflection of the patriarchal 1960's US society Le Guin wrote it in. Certainly, in the afterword of the edition I read, Le Guin talks about how she felt writing about a young brown-skinned teen …

Julia Serano: Sexed Up (Hardcover, Seal Press) 4 stars

Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering …

Julia Serano never disappoints.

I was compelled to read it from an interview I saw on this Khadija video, where Serano discussed derivitization: youtu.be/sBfU-6l8m78

I found the idea discussed throughout this book about the Predator/Prey model dictating the sexual script of our society, and the unique way in which Serano outlined how this is significantly different from previous feminist theory of objectification.

This is a profound roadmap to sexual liberation in an intersectional way, and a "must-read" if you're asking me about it honestly.