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terrifying how NOT out of the ordinary violence against black americans was (and is). it's not even foregrounded but it's too profound to move on from!!! you genuinely cant talk about it enough

if time permits i will continue reading this. i dont want to make premature judgements but ilaiah makes broad claims with nothing much to back it up. confused

i love his journalism. i cant believe such good ground report work used to be routinely published and available for reading in the times of india. the postscripts are a goldmine. they show the implications of publication of such groundwork. sometimes highlighting issues and advocating for the rights of india’s poorest leads to action, sometimes to firing of those who participated and unfortunately, sometimes death

im back to shitting on him. whats with kakkar’s incapacity to engage with a myth for more than 3 lines and come up with something new? judith butler in gender trouble challenged psychoanalysts’ whole thing of men being scared of women’s sexuality, so a large part of kakkar’s work on bad mothers falls apart. really genuinely crazy how many Indian MHPs pick this book up uncritically

I used to shit on sudhir kakkar in sem 3 but he’s good im afraid

“Hence, the strange, the incoherent, that which falls "outside," gives us a way of understanding the taken-for-granted world of sexual categorization as
a constructed one, indeed, as one that might well be constructed
differently.” ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Jesus christ

Butler is evaluating and critiquing psychoanalysts and feminist theorists on what theyve written on gender while also presenting their ideas by challenging theirs. it’s a great experience to read this

Trust me James Baldwin, what you wrote of New York “If any place is worse, it’s got to be so close to hell that you can smell the people frying.” Applies to Delhi too

im reading this horribly and not doing even the remotest justice to this book

it’s nice to see kerouac finally have some agency and voice and activity after on the road

“In that moment, too, he looked so exactly like Franklin Delano Roosevelt-some delusion in my flaming eyes and floating brain-that I drew up in my seat and gasped with amazement. I saw streams of gold pouring through the sky, and sensed God in the light just outside the car in the hot sunny streets.”

I rose to Neal's defense and leaned forward to talk to them. "He's not crazy, he'll be allright, and don't worry about his driving, he's the best in the world."
summarises the book

“they wanted some of my sandwiches. i told them no.” 😭😭

burroughs is compared to ivan karmazov…. hmmm….

something v funny about how the mother pays for a lot

hmm… jack’s method to peace… haha

allen ginsberg’s room being like a russian saint’s lmao