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But What If Instead You Didn't Read Another White Dude

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So it’s Women’s History Month, and you’d like to read some female authors. “But where do I start?” You cry. Your high school reading list was a long line of white dudes and your college syllabi weren’t all that different, and you can only reread Pride and Prejudice so many times. It’s okay: we’ve got you covered. As a starter pack, here’s a few famous books by male authors, paired with a book by a female author you could read instead.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road → Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Kerouac’s famous stream-of-consciousness ode to the beat generation is one of the classic travel narratives of American literature. Solnit also contemplates travel, but from a very different perspective. Her book addresses the issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown. Less a work of theory than a conversation with a friend, Solnit draws to the heart of what compels us to wander - “a series of peregrinations, leading the reader to unexpected vistas.” (New Yorker) 

Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms → Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

Ernest Hemingway’s first novel is about the romance between an expatriate ambulance driver and an English nurse, thinly based on his own experience during World War I. Nightwood, published in 1936, is also a modernist novel focusing on Robin Vote and the American Nora Flood, two women seeking inner peace in their relationship with each other. Djuna Barnes dwells on both the glory and isolation that come with being an outsider, and her novel is also based partly on Barnes’ own life.

Jonathan Franzen, Purity → Rachel Cusk, Outline

Franzen’s most recent novel focuses on the journey of young woman Pip (real name Purity) and her journey to figure out her identity. Rachel Cusk’s novel, told in ten conversations, draws a spare portrait of a novelist teaching creative writing in Athens, seeking to come to terms with a tragedy in her past. Her elegant prose and highly intelligent writing create a compelling portrait of how we hide ourselves from others.

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian → Gil Adamson, The Outlander

Like Cormac McCarthy’s dark, hyper-violent Western, The Outlander takes place in the early 19th century in southern Alberta. About a woman who flees into the wilderness after murdering her husband, Adamson also dwells on the hardships and brutality of the American West, but from the point of view of a female protagonist trying to escape her vengeful pursuers, retreating ever deeper into the wilderness of both the mountains and herself.

John Updike, Rabbit, Run → Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton

Updike is well known for writing portraits of the lives of the small town middle class. My Name is Lucy Barton is a book about the relationship between an estranged mother and daughter and the complicated love between them. Her style is undramatic and never sentimental, focusing on that which is often unspoken and only implied to create a subtle portrait of two small town women.

Norman Mailer, An American Dream → Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

Frequently both called authors of “creative nonfiction”, Norman Mailer’s book follows a decorated war-hero as he descends into murderous insanity, while Joan Didion writes about an unfulfilled New York actress telling her story from a psychiatric institute after a mental breakdown. Joan Didion dwells compellingly on themes of alienation and the breakdown of the elite, and the disintegration of American culture and morals.

Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned, Poems 1951-1993 → Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

Anne Sexton’s deeply personal, confessional poetry can be compared with Bukowski’s writing on his relationships with women, alcohol, and writing. Anne Sexton’s poetry was frequently daring, dwelling on taboo topics such as abortion, menstruation, adultery, and drug addiction in a dramatic, sometimes rough voice.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath → Carola Dibbell, The Only Ones

In the 30s, John Steinbeck addressed economic injustice in his story of a family of Dust Bowl migrants struggling to make their way. Carola Dibbel writes a modern day story grappling with modern inequality, set in a near future plagued by disease and disparity, centering around a woman who finds herself at the mercy of dubious experimentation just to survive.

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land → Octavia Butler, Lilith’s Brood

Instead of picking up Robert Heinlein’s science fiction story about a strange man from Mars who teaches Earthlings his customs, try Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy (published in one volume as Lilith’s Brood) about Lilith Iyapo and the Oankali, an alien race seeking to save the Earth by merging with mankind, and the struggles of humankind of maintain their own culture and identity while mercing with another species. Lilith’s Brood exhibits all of Butler’s deep understanding of human strengths and flaws.

George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire → Robin Hobb, Farseer Trilogy

An epic fantasy that, like the A Song of Ice and Fire series, features complex and treacherous politics and deeply flawed characters, Robin Hobb’s series tells the story of a prince’s bastard son, trained as an assassin, who finds himself caught up - and overwhelmed by - the intrigues of the powerful people around him - all while the strange menace of the Red Ship Raiders continues to threaten the Six Duchies.

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LGBTQIA YA Novels Where the Focus Isn't On Coming Out

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While I believe “coming out” narratives are important, they cannot be the only narrative queer people see themselves in. So, I started this list of LGBTQIA YA books that aren’t about coming out.

This list is a work-in-progress, and I cannot personally vouch for every book on this list. If you believe a book shouldn’t be on here, or if you have a suggestion, please message me and I will look into it.

I have four criteria:

The novel must be young adult/for teens.

This is the last time I will say this, as I am only taking suggestions for YA. Song of Achilles is an adult novel and will not be added.

Coming out could be a part of the plot but could not be the whole focus 

The protagonist/MC had to identify as queer/LGBT. 

The story could not be known to be biphobic or transphobic (which is why The Bermudez Triangle isn’t on here, also before you ask. Also bisexual-books has a great response to that book in particular, but this is not the place for that discussion.)

Realistic Fiction: Lesbian MC

Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

Girl Mans Up by M. E. Girard

The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jess Verdi

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield (TW: self harm and sexual abuse)

If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

Starting from Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner

Gravel Queen by Tea Bendhun

What We Left Behind by Robin Talley (also contains genderqueer MC)

This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Realistic Fiction: Gay MC

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour

Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz

Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg

Sprout by Dale Peck

One Man Guy by Michael Barakiva

Here’s to You, Zeb Pike by Johanna Parkhurst

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa

Realistic Fiction: Asexual MC

This Song Is (Not) For You by Laura Nowlin

Realistic Fiction: Transgender MC

Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

Realistic Fiction: Bisexual MC

Far from You by Tess Sharpe

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan

Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz

Run by Kody Keplinger

Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Hepperman

How To Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

Speculative Fiction: Lesbian MC

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld

Valhalla by Ari Bach

Speculative Fiction: Bisexual MC

Love In the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

The Island of Excess Love by Francesca Lia Block

Ash by Malinda Lo

Adaptation by Malinda Lo

Inheritance by Malinda Lo

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

Coda by Emma Trevayne

Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis

Pantomime by Laura Lam (also includes an intersex protagonist)

Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

Fire by Kristin Cashore

A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith

27 Hours by Tristina Wright

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Speculative Fiction: Gay MC

Proxy by Alex London

More Than This by Patrick Ness

Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

More Happy than Not by Adam Silvera

Chicken by Chase Night

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

Historical Fiction: Lesbian MC

Wildthorn by Jane Eagland

Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Queer/Not Otherwise Specified MC:

The Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea - Speculative Fiction

Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate

Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Cary -

Brooklyn Burning - Steve Brezenoff

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MOONLIGHT (2016) dir Barry Jenkins - The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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Queen of Katwe (2016), dir. Mira Nair

Directed by Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala) and starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo, Queen of Katwe tells the true story of Phiona Mutesi, a young girl from Uganda who dreams of becoming a world chess champion. In cinemas now

Metacritic score: 73 RT score: 91% Trailer here 

Fences (2016), dir. Denzel Washington

Directed and staring Denzel Washington as well as Viola Davis, Fences is a movie set in 50s Pittsburgh about an African-American father dealing with race relations in the US and the events of his life. Out on December 25

Trailer here

Moonlight (2016), dir. Barry Jenkins

Moonlight is the heartbreaking story of a young gay black man living in Miami struggling to come to terms with his identity, told across three different chapters of his life, from childhood to adulthood. Directed by Barry Jenkins and starring Mahershala Ali, Andre Holland, Naomie Harris. Out on December 21st

Metacritic score: 98 RT score: 98%  Trailer here 

13th (2016), dir. Ava DuVernay

Directed by Ava DuVernay, 13th is a beautifully constructed and essential documentary which offers an in depth look at the prison system in the United States and explores the country’s history of racial inequality. Available on Netflix now

Metacritic score: 91 RT: 98%  Trailer here

Hidden Figures (2017), dir. Theodore Melfi

Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octovia Spencer and Janelle Monae, Hidden Figures is the untold story of three women working at NASA who were responsible for making the program’s first space mission a success. Out on January 13

Trailer here

A United Kingdom (2017), dir. Amma Asante

Directed by Amma Asante, A United Kingdom is the first movie directed by a Black British director to open the London Film Festival. Based on true events, the movie focuses on the interracial relationship between Seretse Khama, the King of Botswana, and Ruth Williams, a white London office worker and the consequences this relationship will have on both their countries. Out on February 17

Metacritic score: 67 RT: 90%

“I Am Not Your Negro” (2016), dir. Raoul Peck

From the Toronto International Film Festival website: “Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck (Moloch Tropical, Murder in Pacot) creates a stunning meditation on what it means to be Black in America.” Samuel L. Jackson narrates the documentary.

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If you’re interested in reading Assata Shakur’s Autobiography you can download the full PDF version here

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White people are more likely to get hired because their names sounds white.

White kids are punished less for the same behavior than black kids

White convicts are more likely to get a job than black people without records.

A white person with no college degree is just as like to get hired as a black person with a college degree

All white juries (it’s starts on page 11) are  more likely to convict black criminals than white ones.

Black people are more likely to be stopped and frisked than white people even though they have a higher drug usage than us.

White people (majority of doctors) think that black people feel less pain

Black people get longer sentences than white people

White people use the majority of drugs but black people go to jail longer. This talks more about why our jails and prison are full of black and poor people

White people push for harsher laws when they think it will affect black people

Black people are more likely to get death penalty if their victim is white vs white people if their victims is Black. (Really it applies to all races. Any race that isn’t Black is less likely to get the death penalty if their victim is Black.)

Since this is much longer than the others if you scroll down to figure 5 and read the information about it that’s where this is detailed but the whole thing is a good read.

Reblogging this to here because I can never find examples of white privilege and systematic oppression when I go searching for it in our blog or my personal one.

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Whatever happened to no taxation without representation? Gabe’s got the story on Puerto Rico: