Status Updates From Tainted Witness: Why We Dou...

I’m not retaining anything. I’m reading it and it’s just going in one ear and out the other. I’m highly tempted to DNF this except that I want to kill a little bit more time until the end of the year. I want to start off 2025 with three bird-related book titles in a row and I don’t want to begin too early. But yeah, I don’t know, I’m not into this at all and even if I finish I’ll write a bad review.

I’ve read more. I don’t have anything to say. Part of the reason I chose this book was I thought it would slow me down… I wanted to give myself time to write 2 reviews. I did do the reviews over the weekend and I AM being slowed down by this book, which I am reading infrequently. So I guess in that respect it’s been successful so far.

I bought this book at the library book sale in February. Now seemed like a good time to read it since I recently finished PRIMA FACIE, which is partly about the fact that women aren’t believed about their experiences of sexual violence. Keep the theme going! I read a 2-star review on GR before I began which complained that the book is overly academic. Already I see what they meant: it’s almost incomprehensible.

Tying the evolution of #BlackLivesMatter primarily to its responses to a series of killings of African-American men and boys...obscures the feminist focus on {B}lack lives broadly. By refusing a presentist framing of the event, #BlackLivesMatter is not, as its founders make clear, only about what happened but about how to frame it, how to bear witness to histories of the present....
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Effective. Not elegant.