3/7/22 to 3/13/22
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🤼♀️ Feminism is for Everybody Readation 📚
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3/8 - The group read is Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks. I am already listening to the audiobook on Hoopla. I am about 50% through. I really love how hooks holds women who uphold patriarchy or prefers class/race elitism to liberation accountable. I also really appreciated her section on child abuse and how we raise kids really matters and women are not exepmt. I've just seen too much feminism that makes women perpetual victims and what's the point? Probably to avoid taking responsibility from helping to create this world. bell hooks doesn't accept this and constantly takes it to task. 👏
3/9 - Aaand I'm done. I will probably have a re-listen since its short, easy listen. But overall thoughts, I liked it and thought it was well worth my time. Probably one of the biggest let downs was zero mentions of disability. But this is a greater social justice issue, not even just feminism or bell hooks.
And of course I'm reading zines too. Climate Zine: Feminist Journeys and MATAI/Frings - COVID 19 IN NORTHEAST INDIA. I definitely want to put more of a focus on Global South stuff as I usually don't.
3/10 - I started Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (and also narrated by her) and its so good and accesible.
Here are my chapter notes but I already want to reread a physical copy to get a better idea of some words, and especially names and programs referenced.
Chapter One/Care Webs
- 15% - slower but long term investment in people required, short bursts of support aren't great in the big picture
- 17% - not being able to accept help in school because only rich white boys get tutors. Immigrants/poc need to be twice as smart without help
- 17% - guilt about equivalent exchange, almost a dollar for dollar mentality, hard to get into mutual aid mindset
Chapter Two/Crip Emotional Intelligence
- 22% - Femmescience - femme skills, look up how to spell person's name!
- 22% - compassion, patience
- 23% - recognizing body language like pain
- 25% - desirability politics, very easy and accessible way to phrase this
Chapter Three
- Bad moods but still being loved
- Great books referenced here but will need to look at physical to get
- Overlap between prisons and psych institutions
3/11 - Found some feminist zines and archives, here you go.
I recommend: Women's Health in Third World Countries, Under Western Eyes, Rape Schedule, The World is Pro-Ana,
Glitch Art
📖 Other Reads 📖
Children of the Whales by Abi Umeda
I read volume 1, which were all of the ones my library had. There are currently 21 volumes so I have a way to go!
The art is atmospheric, I really liked the main characters and the mystery of this world.
In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past.In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.
Chakuro is the archivist for the Mud Whale, diligently chronicling the lives and deaths of his people. As one of the short-lived thymia wielders, he knows his time is limited and is determined to leave a better record than his predecessors. But the steady pace of their isolated existence on the Mud Whale is abruptly shattered when a scouting party discovers a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about their home than they do...
Volume 1, ending spoilers
Starts slow, atmospheric. The story sets up certain characters, then ends up killing a lot of them with a cliff hanger ending. Wow! Also this story has an interesting perspective, even from the start it feels like a unique story.
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