Kirstie’s Comments (group member since Nov 16, 2018)

Kirstie’s comments from the Open as in book group.

Ah! I didn’t realise it was so expensive.... hmmmm - maybe better to find a paperback? Ping your suggestions or endorsement for paying for the Design Justice book (£15 - £20 I think)

Here’s the Goodreads link! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Hey everyone!

I’d really love to have another discussion with you all!

I’d love to read Design Justice - what do you think? https://smile.amazon.com/Design-Justi...

Happy to doodle or collect book recommendations if folks want to suggest different ones.

Hey everyone!

I’d really love to have another discussion with you all!

I’d love to read Design Justice - what do you think? https://smile.amazon.com/Design-Justi...

Happy to doodle or collect book recommendations if folks want to suggest different ones.

Thank you Anna!! See you all there :)

I only started the book yesterday but I’m already 100 pages in - I’m absolutely loving it. I think every other page has a sentence highlighted for discussion or reflection!

I’m not 100% confident that I’ll make the call - I’ll be at a residential winter school with really bad signal. Do we ever record them? I’d really love to hear all your thoughts if we can?

Happy new year to you all. And huge thank yous for the motivation to read these books. Like Naomi I’d never have know about this one and I so appreciate the historic context. 🎊🎊🎊

These all sound great to me!!

I’m happy to drop Handmaids Tale & The Testaments from the list (I suggested them). It’s probably a bit of a big ask to read two novels, and definitely not great if folks don’t like them :)

Can we have this decided before MozFest? Or maybe just having the doodle poll is fine to promote (then new members can vote too!)

Thank you for organising Anna!!

I can take notes Naomi! See you online in a little bit :)

(I didn’t finish the book - I got around 2/3 of the way through - but if you all “spoil” the ending then hopefully I can still join in!)

Heya! Happy with all three. Preferred would be #1, then #3 and #2 last (I’ve read it and I found the second half a little disappointing) but delighted to join for any of the books 🌺

I love this idea!! 👍🏻👍🏻

Hey folks! I just want to make sure that everyone is aware of this objection to the author, Caroline Criado-Perez: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0jb.... This just popped up in a twitter thread today: https://twitter.com/abebab/status/112...

The open letter is 5 years old, so I think it’s probably reasonable to read this book, but maybe keep in mind Criado-Perez’s history of excluding BAME and trans women? We can always discuss that aspect when we meet. Alternatively we could pick another book if anyone in the group would prefer not to spend time with this particular author. What do you all think?

I love all the suggestions!!

I think the Reddit book and something about the origins of capitalism would get my particular votes 💖

Thanks Ashley!!

I’ve just downloaded Prisoners of Geography to read so I’d love that one to discuss: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I listened to Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and freaking LOVED IT so I’d recommend that too: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I feel I also have to read/listen to Invisible Women at some point soon, so if there’s appetite for that then let’s do it! (I think it might be a bit similar to Algorithms of Oppression in terms of themes, but that isn’t a bad thing!) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

Just getting the conversation started. There are a very small number of books on the shelf that I’d say “prefer not” to, but almost all of them are 💯💯💯

See you soon!

It’s at the top of the agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13...

Totally agree with making a call - 2pm eastern, lets do it!

Hey folks! I think we might have a daylight savings problem!! 2pm Eastern Summer Time is 6pm UTC (Europe haven’t changed their clocks yet!)

What shall we go for 14 EDT / 18 UTC or 15 EDT / 19 UTC?

I’m on a long car ride and we’ve been slowed by snow (!!) so I’ll be joining from my phone in the car either way!

Maybe comment below to say you’ve seen this message so we don’t get too confused ❤️

Tomorrow evening!! Sorry - yes - Sunday! 😬😬 I knew that!

Awesome! Thank you for organising Zoe! See you all online this evening (my time 😉)

Sorry for the slow reply Eric! Have you been to the conference? How was the talk?