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This book is kicking my ass in the best way

This is a collection of silly stories that center around lies different female characters tell. I doubt I'd ever read this kind of fluff in English, but it is good reading comprehension practice for Brazilian Portuguese study.

This book is overly convoluted in places but I love that she refers to butch femme as a social and economic arrangement and a surrender to the hegemonic contingent on material reality not just some "born this way" true identity thing. Hallelujah. Finally. Sheesh.

I love this collection of semi-autobiographical stories. Rechy is poetic yet raw.

The culture and practice of cruising is a source of unending fascination for me. The ritual and the revelation connect people to the larger kingdom of living beings yet it remains/ (must remain?) so hidden and taboo. This is definitely one of those library finds I'm gonna just purchase so I can take my time to savor the writing

My passion for service delivery and customer care is not just because I want people to get better service, it's because I want people to be empowered and informed so they can live free and dignified lives. This book was referred to me by a colleague after I griped about several bad experiences in doctor's offices. Medical service delivery is fraught with issues, all are rooted in who has the power in the dynamic.

Are you an adult or just the grown version of the person you had to be to survive your childhood? Read this book to find out.

Highly recommended to those raised by narcissists.

I am reading this with a group of well-meaning white liberal ladies from my church. As usual, I am there to be the foil. Mariame Kaba, Ruth Gilmore, and this whole squadron of nonprofit and academia-adjacent so-called radicals are dangerous counter-revolutionaries. So I think it's important that people who are actually serious about shit look at their work and develop critiques and clapbacks.
Abolition is a lie.

This book is about WAYYYYYYY more than sex.

Yes. I'm that middle aged wine mom reading about love. Don't @-me.

After just a few minutes in to the audiobook, I knew this is one I needed on my bookshelf. Deschooling Societyis an absolutely razor sharp treatise on the statist and classist lie that is modern schooling.

This book is unnecessarily dense. I never thougjt Dylan was a particularly good writer but this book sorta confirms the feeling I've had for 20+ years. It's a shame, because the central argument that most efforts to resist white supremacy tend to just feed back into white supremacy is a good one. Maybe he'll make it into a graphic novel or something more accessible. Does that count towards keeping tenure??

I've never used a dating app and Sales's documentary Swiped plus everything I know about surveillance capitalism makes me fairly content to never use any of them, but this book is more good fuel for the flame of disdain for extractive, socially-destructive, corporate tech.

I just started reading this and I'm blown away. This is amazing

This definitely feels like a played out storyline. I saw Little Fires Everywhere and Big Little Lies and also read Rumaan Alam's great Leave The World Behind. Dag, White Ladies, people are tired of y'all :(

I disagree with Scott Galloway on a great many things but I respect him immensely. This would be a nice gift for a young person just getting started in life, especially young men.

I'm gagging at how good Okomolafe's intro is. So delicious!

Maybe it's because I'm a black person in tech and am familiar with this world, but this book feels corny, stale, and unimaginative. The reality is more absurd than this fiction.

I am floored. This book is vital for anyone who wants to truly plumb the depths of black suffering. Western liberal folklore often implores people not to persecute people based on "the color of their skin" ("I don't even see color!") but the truth is that oftentimes texture of hair is the major "marker" of difference. Since hair is more malleable, kinky haired blacks are thus implored to "fix it" or accept our fates.

I wanna like this. People that I like loved this. I find the central conceit cute but the story itself is fuckin boring so far. Is there a movie I could watch instead?

Wow, I was gripped from the beginning. To read something from MY (Ghanaian Ewe) culture is such a thrill. I can smell the smells, see the beads of sweat dripping, hear the voices because they are my aunties and uncles and cousins' voices. I don't know how this plays to others but it is so delicious for me!

I like this but it's long and I can't help wondering if I've already got the point already. Listen to indigenous ways yadda yadda. Is it worth reading all the way through?

This is me trying to read fiction. We'll see how this goes. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Frank is one of the most frustrating, funny, brilliant, and inspiring people I have ever known. He is an enthralling storyteller and a divine theorist of the harsh truths of Blackness in the world. I got this galley copy in the mail yesterday and cracked it open for a little peek and now I can't put it down. I'm a fairly slow and distracted reader but I'm pretty sure I'll finish this this week.

There are parts of this I wish I'd read years ago and other parts that are silly or repetitive. My library loan is almost up so I'm gonna fast forward through this last third.