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[foreverlostinliterature]

6/22 Book Deals

Hey guys, happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend and that your week is off to a great start. It’s gonna be another rough one for me, but I’m just trying to get through it the best I can. :) There is another huge book sale going on it seems, so I’ll be sharing those throughout the week--there are some super good books on sale so definitely have a look. The House in the Cerulean Sea is one of my favorite books of the year and I cannot recommend it enough! I also recommend The Way of Kings, A Darker Shade of Magic, and The Great Hunt (but you should probably read book #1, first! ;) )! I want to read so many of these, haha! Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful day and happy reading!

Here is the link to find resources on how you can help out with the BLM movement! Keep the momentum going!

Today’s Deals:

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin - https://amzn.to/2V7BuAk

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray - https://amzn.to/31bLOeJ

Privilege by Mary Adkins - https://amzn.to/31bLP2h

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune - https://amzn.to/314vfBa

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - https://amzn.to/3dqc4o3

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson - https://amzn.to/3178rB0

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu & Ken Liu - https://amzn.to/3fKIxHa

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab - https://amzn.to/2V8l2jj

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal - https://amzn.to/2Brgq0X

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey - https://amzn.to/316iPZq

The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time #2) by Robert Jordan - https://amzn.to/2Z0P2i6

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - https://amzn.to/2YWSPNz

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty - https://amzn.to/2NnNucA

NOTE:  I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!)  commission on any purchase made through these links.

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Many sports fans consider Jim Brown to be the best American Football player to have ever been in the game. Brown left football at his physical prime and went on to become a political activist and actor (the latter of which payed him much more than being an athlete in the early 60s). But like so many other public figures, Brown has had darker moments, too. Journalist Dave Zirin writes about the highs and lows of Brown’s life in his nuanced and comprehensive biography, Jim Brown: Last Man Standing, published by Blue Rider Press.

[keithboykin]

Debating Ben Ferguson about NFL players’ protest at the Cleveland Browns preseason game on Monday Night Football.

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7 Shows to Listen to this Women’s History Month

We’re knee deep in Women’s History Month and and Making Contact we’re celebrating the best way we know how: highlighting the stories of women making change and fighting for a better future for ourselves and all those around us along the way.  Check out these stories from Making Contact featuring the often untold stories impacting women everyday: 1.Don’t Let Them See You Bleed: PERIOD From period…

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[arcticdementor]

How DEI Programs and Liberal Politics Are Failing Gaza

Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, as they exist in education, are failing, because they emphasize personal feelings over the need t

The operative word in high school and college faculty meetings is fear. If you say anything about Gaza, if you criticize the Israeli military or display any anguish about an ongoing genocide, you risk retribution. For many teachers, there is an even greater fear of raising the issue of Gaza in class, where a student armed with a cell phone camera could brand you as an antisemite to the administration and beyond. So the default choice is usually silence.

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The first part that must be acknowledged is that this fear is based in the reality of a new McCarthyism. There is a middle school teacher in my liberal community that was suspended for using the Palestinian independence slogan “From the River to the Sea” as a tagline on an e-mail. The redefining of that popular phrase as something antisemitic and even exterminationist has been a propaganda coup for those who defend the shelling of Gaza.

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College students also feel under a microscope with administrators banning clubs, canceling rallies, and trying to enforce campus placidity rather than inquiry. A few college presidents are now on the unemployment line because they—quite clumsily, one must say—refused to bend the knee before rabid Trumpists in Congress. The resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard has both AIPAC and anti-Black racists crowing. It feels like any statement, any question, any protest of Israel’s military incursion will be met with a fusillade of poisonous accusations. Across all levels of education, heads are down, and mouths are understandably shut. But fears of heavy-handed punishment are not the only factor stifling discussion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that train faculty in both secondary school and higher ed must be also held to account. DEI is proving to be woefully inadequate as a project to challenge a brutal and, yes, racist war The right wing is trying—and often succeeding—to ban DEI departments and other programs that discuss the realities of oppression in the workplace and beyond. The first act of Governor Ron DeSantis and his baldly racist apparatchik Christopher Rufo in their hostile takeover of the New College of Florida was to abolish the school’s DEI department. These programs should be defended because they strive to create space to discuss societal inequity and are in the crosshairs of the radical right. But defending these liberal DEI programs from statehouse goons should never be the same as endorsing them as a method to fight racism. DEI, as it exists in most institutions, holds sacred, in the words of one teacher, “the idea that all experiences are valid and your personal pain or trauma must be centered and validated.” This fails Gaza on multiple fronts. First, it provides a false equivalency that allows supporters of Israel to speak about feeling attacked whenever so much as a Palestinian flag is displayed on a Trapper Keeper. The DEI process provides space for people to claim that any critique of the Israeli state rises to the level of antisemitism. In many DEI circles, the weaponization of the charge of antisemitism has proven to be effective. An individual’s feelings that a criticism of Israel is antisemitic is often weighed as a view just as valid as those of people distressed by the IDF’s shelling of Palestinian civilians. But it’s not just about process. DEI arises from mainstream liberal politics, a cornerstone of which for decades has been to be progressive except for Palestine. In the face of this, when the choice is silence or being branded an antisemite, it’s understandable why fear would rule the day.

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The solution lies in something far easier said than done: collectively organized courage. During McCarthyism, it was the small acts of a brave few in education that first punctured its power. Today we don’t just need similar heroes willing to break the silence. We need networks of support and solidarity. The moment demands organization, open speech, and love for the Palestinian people. The alternative is we go about our lives as if everything is normal: haunted with the knowledge that future generations will ask why we did nothing.

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The Nation:Dave Zirin: Taking Back The Los Angeles Dodgers?'

The Nation: Opinion: Dave Zirin: Taking Back The Los Angeles Dodgers? This post was originally posted at FRS Daily Journal on WordPress I’m not a Socialist in any form, even though I do read The Nation Magazine and I’m in favor of a limited safety Net. Limited form of a safety net being the key words there. But as a Liberal I’m also not a big fan of centralized power, whether it comes from the…

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Behind the Shield is Compelling, Courageous, and Commendable

Behind the Shield is Compelling, Courageous, and Commendable

By: Zachary Draves Dave Zirin, Sports Editor at The Nation, has been telling a people’s history of sports for almost twenty years. His work takes a hard thorough look at the intersection of sports and politics that often gets overshadowed by the glitz and glamor. He has taken powerful institutions such as the Olympics, the World Cup, and team owners to task that would make the likes of Lester…

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