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Might be my favorite book in the universe right now idk idk

in my rereading books that have profoundly changed my life and left me feeling run over era apparently

"As far as i'm concerned, "liberal" is the most meaningless world in the dictionary."

"There is no doubt, however, that it needs yet more interruption, however traumatic to those who have spent decades congratulating themselves on their ethical subjectivity while aiding and abetting—through their sheer denial—the attempt to run roughshod over an entire people"

i need a goodreads but for academic papers like this is getting out of hand

sensing an impending slump (my fanfic to book ratio is about to get scary)

"kinning is figured, materialized and lived through highly commodified and marketized relations that are produced through securitized privileged access to the law, technology and the market" i truly can never be serious bc i keep thinking about this in terms of 12 year olds on tiktok kinning anime characters instead of transnational family adoptions LOL

"Jesse was chattering on about different types of dykes as different types of dairy or non-dairy milks" and this is what lesbianism means to me

"Many who celebrate the transformative potential of communication networks are oblivious to the oppressive forms of human labor and environmental ravages on which their fantasies of virtuality and dematerialization depend" literally snapped my fingers in the air to no one like

"Sleep poses the idea of a human need and interval of time that cannot be colonized and harnessed to a massive engine of profitability, and thus remains an incongruous anomaly and site of crisis in the global present"

authors of "sapphic" books vs saying the word lesbian

cool book so far but the parts where it talks about SA/rape/etc. in relation to sex and sexual content are phrased and argued so fucking weirdly ??

“Many people feel unattractive and undateable without believing that others owe them sex or resorting to murder.” this is so real

this book is reminding me of that one video that's like Imagine a World Where Being Gay is the Norm & Straight the Minority

getting the impression that this will be some surface level analysis of why we should use reusable bags and nothing about capitalistic overproduction and overconsumption but we will see

“The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish it these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe.” like jesus christ man

19 pages in and i've already highlighted half the passages in this... i'm getting scared

the inherent homosexuality of epistolary novels simply cannot be denied

“And so, Styopa groaned.” he’s just like me

“Did you see the overalls? The hair? Total soft butch.” overalls and hair are the butchest sapphic romcom love interests can get before everyone starts freaking out

the reylo fanfic bestseller author liked this book so i’m not sure i will. Let’s see

“Gavin tried to ask me to homecoming junior year and instead of rejecting him like a decent human being, I ran into the bathroom and locked myself in a stall” this book captures the lesbian urge to run into a bathroom and lock yourself in a stall very well

these bitches r sooo gay it’s embarrassing for them

lesbians will hit someone with their car and go omg she’s sooooo pretty <3 i can’t confirm this but i’d do it probably

"I knew it was wrong to compare my experience at a prep school in New Jersey to that of a disadvantaged person in an actual prison. Still, I compared it." it's true... when i say i want prison abolition i'm talking about the abolition of new jersey as well

“I felt a grown man trying to get my attention. Doom washed over me.” this is so me

i just love this book so so so so SO much oh my god :(((

okay i was willing to let it go this far but i just don't think they were using terms like "narco-military state" in the 1800s.

lesbians (me) will read over 1 million words just Because