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Joy is Currently Reading

Joy is currently reading

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

by Daniel Brook (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025, current-library-checkouts, non-fiction, gender-sexuality-relationships, biography-and-memoir, germany, history, currently-reading

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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

by Mayukh Sen (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025, owned, non-fiction, film, asian-american-studies, india, biography-and-memoir

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Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (From a Certain Point of View, #1)

by Elizabeth Schaefer

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Joy’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman

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They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.

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“There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love—exerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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“I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it’s a shitshow.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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“My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that’s not a future I want to live in.”
― John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

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“Feminism is really just the long slow realization that the things you love hate you.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

tags: feminism

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“Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.

Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.

(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")”
― Cameron Awkward-Rich, Transit

tags: gender, poetry

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