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Eloquent rage book review6/23/2023 Eloquent Rage is an ode to the power and ferocity possessed by women of color and the ways they have built and saved the world around us. Anthony but with Maria Stewart, a Black lady abolitionist,” (34). She writes that her “feminism begins not with Susan B. In Cooper’s book, she focuses primarily on the ways Black feminism (an intersection of feminism and race focused on Black women and their experiences) has saved her and given her a platform to express her rage and experience. This is called intersectional feminism, or fourth wave feminism, which centers around advocating for all marginalized groups and fighting oppression on every level, according to The Guardian. Eloquent Rage explores the complicated relationship between feminism as a woman and feminism through a multiplicity of perspectives. However, Brittney Cooper’s Eloquent Rage argues that this fails to explore feminism that serves social justice beyond just advocating for the rights of women she writes that “feminism can give us a common language for thinking about how sexism, and racism, and classism work together,” (5). These movements cite the belief that there is nothing left for women to be angry about: we can vote, work and drive. Shockingly one has to turn toward organizations like “The Mother’s Movement” of the 1950’s, or the modern day “ Women Against Feminism ,” to see that many of these critiques come from women. Feminism is a word too often condemned as a movement of angry, vengeful women.
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Waterland novel6/22/2023 "You ask," the narrator tells his students, "as all history classes ask, as all history classes should ask, What is the point of history" (92). This novel, which begins with a history teacher who is about to be fired, ruminating upon history and his story in terms of the events of his own life, and he quickly runs up against the young, those without interest in the past, those who quite properly want to know why, why pay attention to what's over and done with. Waterland leads off our survey of English literature, and it teaches us to ask questions. It is also the story of two families, of an entire region in England, of England from the industrial revolution to the present, and it is, finally, a meditation on stories and story-telling - a fictional inquiry into fiction, a book that winds back upon itself and asks why we tell stories. As the bookjacket asserts, " Waterland is a moving meditation on history, on procreation, on destruction, and on our struggles to shore up our small worlds against the onrushing forces of time and nature." Like Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, a book that obviously had major influence upon it, and like Dickens's Great Expectations, Waterland meditates on these matters by pursuing a mystery so the book, like these others, is in part a detective story. Waterland: An Introduction Waterland well begins our course because it concerns itself with so many literary and non-literary issues that appear throughout our reading list.
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It was such a beautiful book, that includes matters that other YA novels lack. “Two strangers fall in love within 12 hours? Oh damn, it’s one of those. The synopsis definitely makes you think that. I won’t lie, I was incredibly terrified it was on of those insta-love stories, if you know what I mean. But who’s complaining, right? So anyways, I dove into this book head-first and finished it in one sitting. And somehow, my best friend got me the book as a belated birthday gift before the official release date, claiming that she just found it at the bookstore and remembered that she saw it on my TBR. I had it on my Goodreads anticipated-releases bookshelf. After reading Yoon’s first novel Everything, Everything, I was ecstatic over this one.
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Cute mutants vol 1 mutant pride6/22/2023 Whitby's dialogue sparkles from the page, layered with delightful snark and pop culture references. "A queerer, wittier Riverdale with a side of superpowers, rolled in rainbow glitter. Xiran Jay Zhao, bestselling author of Iron Widow "A delightfully chaotic and queer spin on the awkward teen superhero experience." Rosiee Thor, author of Fire Becomes Her SJ Whitby is a rare talent, and I'll read anything they write." Hilarious and heartwarming, this pageturner delivers snark, action, and a queer found family you can't help but root for. "Move over, Marvel, Cute Mutants is my new obsession. But things blow up in my face, and the team's on the edge of falling apart. The bigger problem is there's a mysterious mutant causing unnatural disasters, and we're the ones who have to stop him. And there's a whole group of us with strange abilities, including super hot ice queen Dani Kim who doesn't approve of how reckless I can be. One slightly awkward kiss, and now I can talk to objects like my pillow (who's far too invested in my love life) and my baseball bat (who was a pacifist before I got hold of him). Except people and me never got along, and apparently you need social skills to run a successful team.Ĭue Emma Hall's party. "My name is Dylan Taylor, human incarnation of the burning dumpster gif, and this is my life" A BRAND NEW DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITION OF THE CULT INDIE HIT ABOUT QUEER TEENAGERS WITH SUPERPOWERS
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Dualed book6/21/2023 though both have the power to destroy her.Įlsie Chapman’s suspenseful YA debut weaves unexpected romance into a novel full of fast-paced action and thought-provoking philosophy. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love. Stricken with grief and guilt, she’s no longer certain that she’s the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. But then a tragic misstep shakes West’s confidence. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage-life.įifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. Everyone has a genetic Alternate-a twin raised by another family-and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Would you live through the ultimate test of survival?
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August wilson's gem of the ocean6/21/2023 Dearborn, 31,, $25-$80.īut the genius of Wilson, which Smith (who served as dramaturg for the Goodman’s 2003 world premiere of Gem) understands well, is that his characters exist in several places simultaneously: past and present, myth and reality, cities of bones and cities, like Pittsburgh in 1904, of steel and blood and turmoil. Through 2/27: Wed 7:30 PM, Thu 2 and 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM also Sun 2/6 and Tue 2/15, 7:30 PM no show Wed 2/2 or 2 PM Thu 2/10, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Chuck Smith’s current Goodman revival of Gem of the Ocean, chronologically the first in Wilson’s decade-by-decade exploration of Black American history in the 20th century, takes us on a journey every bit as sorrowful and profound as the one Citizen Barlow (Sharif Atkins) makes to the City of Bones-a mystical place in the center of the ocean, built from the remains of those Africans who died in the Middle Passage. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & RecreationĪugust Wilson’s Century Cycle (also known as the Pittsburgh Cycle, though Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is set in Chicago) remains one of the monumental achievements in American drama. Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.
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The Gladiator's Honor by Michelle Styles6/21/2023 But with a wisp of scandal clinging to her stola, Julia is drawn inexorably toward the forbidden danger he represents. He is outside polite society, and Roman noblewoman Julia Antonia knows she should have nothing to do with a man who is little more than a slave. To claim her, he must fight one final time-and win!Ī hardened survivor of more than a dozen gladiatorial combats, Valens's raw masculinity fuels many women's sexual fantasies. For Valens, Julia is a tantalizing reminder of the life he'd been torn from. A hardened survivor of more than a dozen gladiatorial combats, Valens's raw masculinity fuels many women's sexual fantasies.
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Squad maggie tokuda hall read online6/21/2023 Readers who want thrilling carnage, sharp dialogue, and sapphic romance mixed into their teen dramas will devour this transformative tale. Female friendship sits front and center in this supernatural vigilante story, even when plans unravel. ISBN 9780062943149 Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall Publisher HarperCollins Release 05 October 2021 Subjects Comic and Graphic Books Fantasy Young Adult Fiction LGBTQIA+ (Fiction) Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Arianna, the alpha, dons a high pony queer, Asian Becca dresses casually Marley, who’s white, is the bubbly, girly blonde and Amanda, who’s Black, rocks natural hair that is sometimes braided, sometimes springy and cloud-like. Sterle uses her illustrations-rendered in a classic teen style, with stylish outfits and deliberate linework-to differentiate the girls. SQUAD by Maggie Tokuda-Hall illustrated by Lisa Sterle RELEASE DATE: Oct. Every full moon, they hunt predatory dudes-and they need a fourth member to help eat the evidence. Maggie Tokuda-Hall is the author of Also an Octopus, The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea, and Squad.You can read her writing for adults in her column for. When a drunk bro tries to assault Becca at a Bay Area beach party, her new, popular friends intervene, revealing that they are not a squad so much as a pack. After a friendly exchange of menstrual products, cool-girl Marley invites new-girl Becca to join her clique, thus setting into motion a Heathers-esque tale about a smart teen who discovers the darker cost of fitting in.
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Ross gay gratitude poem6/20/2023 Recalling how pleasant it is to sleep in one’s clothes veers off into an unsettling meditation that does not shy away from a certain darkness:īeneath a façade of effervescent joy, subtle defamiliarization is at work here: the tranquil familiarity of sleep is disturbed here by considerations of death and violence. Buttoning one’s shirt leads one to ponder on the fragility of things. Here, the most mundane things acquire profound significance and can convey nuanced reflections on race, gender, and sexuality. Ferociously earnest and jubilant, Ross Gay’s third collection is not simply an ode to finding gratitude for the things we usually take for granted: it is a triumphant declaration of love for the world we live in. There may be effusion in Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, but there’s definitely no mawkishness, no syrupy sentimentalism. |