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here are some books i think everyone should check out
Click here to see our Anti-Racism Reading List for Young Readers
A guide with educational resources about antiracism and the history of police brutality, anti-Black racism & discrimination in the Twin Citi
Internet archive links to books I've started to recommend if you care about indigenous people and anti-colonialism.
The Wretched of the Earth
Discourse On Colonialism
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
Red Skin, White Masks : Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Borderlands/La Frontera
As We Have Always Done
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Books I couldn't find on the archive but still recommend you purchase or check out at the library:
Come on, fellas. Let's get it together.
It’s incredible how much women do behind the scenes. I know a realtor who relies strongly on his girlfriend’s charisma, beauty and personality to gain clients.
I’ve just been reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, about the Harvard women who supported the bulk of astronomy research there over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many of them did receive public and academic credit as well as pay - although the university always resisted making any of them faculty until the 1950s - almost all the male astronomers featured were married to accomplished women in their own right, many of them scientists, and you can bet their husbands weren’t putting them on all their papers.
Which has bled into the modern academic world, where many people are expected to do what was essentially a two-person job (filled by male academic + wife) by themselves, or while married to someone else trying to do the same thing. The lack of acknowledgement of women’s work fucks everybody over.
#people who want a return to the mythical prior era #when women did not work #do not want women to stop working #they want them to stop getting credit and pay for it
This reminds me of how early film history, it was always the male director’s wife who did the editing of the films, because the cutting and connecting of film strips was considered a lot like sewing. Of course, anyone who knows anything about film and editing can tell you it changes how good a movie is very easily.
Don’t believe me? Look at the differences between the famous Jaws as the public’s release of it (insisted upon by the female editor) and spielberg, the male director’s version of it (missing basic suspense methods, shows the phony shark too much, etc). Same goes for almost every tarantino film. Editing makes or breaks a film and even today, you can bet your socks editing “the invisible art” was pioneered and is still pushed by women.
^^^^^^ This is so true! And once film editing began to be recognized as an actual art form, women were shoved out of the editing room so that men could be artistic or whatever.
Also Tarantino referred to his favorite editor as being kind of like his mom or something and I swear to god the more I see of him, the less I like him.
The “female editor” for Jaws was Verna Hellman Fields, who cut many other notable films, including American Graffiti along with Marcia Lucas.
Tarantino’s “favorite editor” was Sally JoAnne Menke who edited all of Tarantino’s films until she died.
Because naming and credit is important, especially when you’re talking about women not getting credit and recognition of their work as named individuals.
If you want to know more about women in early filmmaking (emphasis American) and the sociology of how different roles were divided, gendered, and re-gendered in the first decades, I highly recommend Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood by Karen Ward Mahar.
There are a number of other books to follow that, but it’s 2am and I’m tired so hit me up later for them.
You know what happens when women type? They EDIT. It is a service they are expected to provide invisibly - not to let a mistake or imperfection show to their husband’s audience, but also not to intrude upon his sense that this is all his ideas and his labor. Wives are the unacknowledged story and script doctors, and often co-authors for so many supposedly male-authored works.
Also, I second Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Mahar was my history prof for three or four courses and she is incredibly knowledgeable and engaging.
> read library book
> it's good
Thank you library
> read library book
> it's bad
Thank you library for saving me from buying it :)
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Okay so. The 2nd half of Return of the King is basically just The Longest Epilogue Ever. Got it 👍
periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW
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I've gotta say, I just LOVE Olivia Dade books. One of my top authors for this year!! Her writing is so eloquent and so funny, and I like how much development the main characters go through in each of her stories! I can't wait to listen to Zom Rom-Com
That's actually hilarious.
I think I also require an "intelligent criticism" folder.
Ria, our part time bookseller and full time student at Wellesley College made a book display. She calls it “Anything You Can Write We Can Write Better- Works by alumnae of historically women’s colleges.” It’s full of some fantastic books.
Ria's List
Wellesley College Madam Secretary - Madeleine Albright Mr. Churchill's Secretary - Susan Elia MacNeal Last Night at the Telegraph Club- Malinda Lo The Sweet Spot - Amy Poeppel Heartburn- Nora Ephron Dear Wendy- Ann Zhao Pieces of Blue- Holly Goldberg Sloan Barbara the Slut- Lauren Holmes Good Grief - E.B. Bartels We Have Always Been Who We Are- Sofia Romero Nancy Drew- Carolyn Keene (aka Harriet Stratemeyer)
Barnard College Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh The Vulnerables - Sigrid Nunez The Death of a Jaybird- Jodi M. Savage Making It in America- Rachel Slade
Smith College The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan The Cliffs- J. Courtney Sullivan A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara Ariel- Sylvia Plath Mastering the Art of French Cooking- Julia Child The Starless Sea-Erin Morgenstern The Babysitters Club- Ann M. Martin
Bryn Mawr Crying in H Mart- Michelle Zauner The Trouble with You- Ellen Feldman The Brightwood Code- Monica Hesse Necessary Trouble- Drew Gilpin Faust
Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor
trans actual uk - trans led and run advocacy, education and empowerment organisation
fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes
gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org
mermaids - supports trans youth
akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity
loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england
not a phase - for trans adults
Obviously, the modern reader knows the plot twist in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The content of the story was so influential as to become an idiom, a sort of short hand for an alter ego or identity. But still, imagine reading this back in the day and getting to the end of the penultimate chapter and finding out holy shit they are the same person
Why have I not thought of using parentheses in dialogue?
So, excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson:
"You stay too much indoors," said the lawyer. "You should be out, whipping up the circulation like Mr. Enfield and me. (This is my cousin—Mr. Enfield—Dr. Jekyll.) Come now; get your hat and take a quick turn with us."
What a great way to show an aside in dialogue! I have not seen any other author do this (though I have not read as much stuff from the late 1800s as I would like), but! Damn. If this isn't common, then what an inspired way to do this that automatically makes sense to the reader!
This is why reading the greats is important if you want to expand your own writing.
Oops, my hand slipped and now I have 9 books in my "currently reading"
The way some people get all haughty that they don't ever read nonfiction... The anti-intellectualism is in the fucking walls, guys, gals, and nonbinary pals.
Piping hot take -- Anthony Palmini is a terrible narrator.
The Assassin's Blade is just dripping with Sarah J. Maas's hatred of women sex workers. The way the female courtesans are ALWAYS degraded every time they are mentioned... It makes me sick to my stomach every time. Especially because the language around Archer in Crown of Midnight is way more sympathetic when it comes to his being a male courtesan. Gives me the fucking ick.
this kinda goes for aedion too. sjm RARELY mentions it but he had been a sex worker for some time. when it is finally about to be mentioned, she throws it off to the side and doesnt mention it until the end of the same fucking book (empire of storms) when all of us have forgotten about it. she never even puts it out there again to tell aelin or the rest of the cast because what? its not like they know? he hasnt told any of them, why is this not brought up again
I have only gotten as far as Heir of Fire so far (that's as far as the audiobooks go on Libby -- I will have to read the ebooks for the rest), so I haven't gotten to that point yet.
Taking this into account then shows a strong pattern of SJM showing sex work to be something only ever shameful and traumatizing when it happens to people she likes (ie men, such as Rhysand, Archer, and Aedion). We can argue she frames it as something that garners sympathy because these three were forced into it -- but so were all the women courtesans that disparages with every word.
