My friend Mary gave me this the other day, a queer king Lear set in the end times due to climate disaster? Yes please. I enjoyed this even more than IMy friend Mary gave me this the other day, a queer king Lear set in the end times due to climate disaster? Yes please. I enjoyed this even more than I did “our wives under the sea,” which I also loved. Eerie and sinister aren’t my go-tos these days as, well, life is rather dystopian at the moment, but the emphasis here is on connection and love while everything falls apart....more
Beautifully translated and written, this is a dark comedy/satire about corporate life, and indeed the meaning of life, centering around a 30 somethingBeautifully translated and written, this is a dark comedy/satire about corporate life, and indeed the meaning of life, centering around a 30 something protagonist in Madrid. The sense of place is incredible; one feels like they are in Madrid, walking through the Prado, stopping at the grocery stores and feeling the unbelievably oppressive heat of August in Spain. Under the laughs, though, is an desperate search for connection. I loved, loved, loved this one. Thanks, D!...more
3.5 In honor of banned books week that just passed, I read this, one of the most frequently banned books in the US over the last several years. I can s3.5 In honor of banned books week that just passed, I read this, one of the most frequently banned books in the US over the last several years. I can see why it has been so controversial, particularly as the scenes that are oft cited as pornographic are (infuriatingly) taken completely out of context. This book has nothing to do with pornography in the slightest, and for readers seeking a glimpse of themself in its pages, or of a loved one who is going through something similar, I imagine this this book is a lifeline.
That said, this is not my favourite account of transness/non-binary acceptance. But I love that it exists....more
I found this in the stacks of my school library the other day, and I was about to put it in the weed pile (I don't think it's been touched since the 1I found this in the stacks of my school library the other day, and I was about to put it in the weed pile (I don't think it's been touched since the 1980s) when something about the cover caught my eye, and I opened the book to read the flap...first female to run for president in the USA...in 1872? Ran on a platform that included legalizing prostitution and radically restructuring marriage and family life to bring equality to men and women? OK, Victoria! I need to know you.
In her own words: "Who will dare to unlock the luminous portals of the future with the rusty keys of the past?....I have an inalienable, constitutional, and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can, to change that love every day if I please. And with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere." QUEEN VICTORIA, I love you.
She was the first woman who owned her own brokerage firm on Wall Street...the first woman to speak to Congress, and her address ended up giving women the means to get the right to vote, though the feminist leaders of the day, Susan Anthony et all, hated her - and she owned her own publishing company, writing articles in her own newspaper that exposed the hypocrisy of the powerful men that blamed women for promiscuity and lewd behaviour whilst engaging freely in their own sexual indiscretions. She was against wealth disparity, advocated for revolution and rewriting the constitution to make it more equal for all, and she paved the road for feminists of the 1960s - almost 100 years later - who successfully argued that women can't really be free without reproductive freedom.
Her party was the Equal Rights Party, and her vice president was Frederick Douglas.
I am yours, Victoria Woodhull. I apologize to everyone who knows me in advance, as I will be talking about this queen for months. Or years....more
One of the teachers i work with heard me and another colleague talking about our shared love of “the awakening” and “Addie LaRue,” and he came into thOne of the teachers i work with heard me and another colleague talking about our shared love of “the awakening” and “Addie LaRue,” and he came into the library later with this book, saying if I loved those, I might love this, too. And I do. This is not only one of the most beautifully illustrated graphic novels I’ve ever read, but it is a modern retelling of Hindu mythology that asks the question- much like Addie - what is the meaning of a life? And like “the awakening,” it also asks, “what are the parameters in which one can truly live?”Easily my favorite GN I’ve read all year, and one of the best I’ve read, period....more
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