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The content is deeply critical and interesting in its emancipatory framework. It’s relevant today in MANY ways. Some of the language/terms and framing has changed in intersectional feminist discourses now, but there’s a lot of terms in this 80’s book that is still newer to the dominant discourse! Some of the writing is challenging for me, but overall it’s a solid book, especially for a white author.

Ch.26 is highly inappropriate. Just another audacious moment of white authors making up scenes of “Indians”, projecting their cultural (mis)interpretations into a story of their death. This asymmetry in which white authors write about of nonwhite folks, especially Indigenous Peoples, but don’t write about white families the same way is a gross form of objectification & consumptive behavior.

As the yts talk to Indigenous Peoples to gather stories of tsunamis and earthquakes, the author notes how their accounts have been disregarded as “out there myths”. I think the author tries to humanize the whites who are now listening, but continues to objectify the different Indigenous people and groups. not once do they offer any reciprocity to the folks who are advancing western science! Smh yts be whiting.

Things I like: learning about geology & Oregon’s geologic history

Would do without:
- superfluous descriptions of pale male scientists & overly drawn out “scenes” of their offices/insignificant scenes
- casual ableism
- dropping that Japanese scientists had knowledge before white scientists, & generally excluding nonwhite scientists
- casual militarism & acting as if oil industry is neutral field of geology

Ummm… WOW. Another book I wish I could read all day. So humbling, educational, and connective.