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ReviewsSeptember Favorites
Hi! Not sure if there is any kind of recurrent post about monthly favorites, but I thought it would be fun to ask!
Did anyone have any reading stand outs from September?
I really enjoyed The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush. I'm at a cross roads with potential motherhood and my anxiety for the future of the planet, so appreciated reading about someone else's perspective on this. I'm a big fan of narrative non-fiction, this one was a nice blend of memoir, the history of exploration of Antarctica (and the male dominance of this), plus what the scientist are finding out about climate chance from the melting ice.
Hoping there's some interest in maybe having a monthly thread to discuss what was memorable!
“And smokebomb lesbian conferences, call black women the same as men, punch pensioners in the face, threaten to rape with our girldicks, usurp the word woman and then reduce it to a feeling, an abstract concept, and spinny dresses, then usurp the word female while also making it meaningless, claim that sex is a spectrum, make sexual orientation about gender and not sex…”
And threaten to beat, maim, or kill you if you disagree with any of this.
And IGNORE and refuse to recognize and treat any co-morbid conditions (like PTSD, depression) because your gender specialness is much more important and valid.
I would add: Letting mediocre male athletes cheat in sports. Deny women and girls language and that spaces to describe our unique sex based reality. Chemically castrate children.
and rigidly enforce gender roles and fashions and behavioral expectations, and hobbies and interests.
and mess up medical statistics, crime statistics, population statistics.
and appropriate other peoples rights movements, organizations and flags/symbols.
and rewrite history to centre trans and trans historical events and figures.
and appropriate medical conditions like DSD.