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makingqueerhistory · 9 months
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A quick round-up of queer nonfiction recommendations that I wanted to share!
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir 
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender 
Sacrament of Bodies
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!
I want to encourage you to request these from local libraries especially right now. If at all possible, it is a great way to support your local queer community and library at the same time!
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rebeccathenaturalist · 7 months
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I have THE biggest, BEST news EVER--
I GOT A BOOK CONTRACT!!!!!!!!
I am exceptionally pleased to announce that I have just signed a contract with Ten Speed Press (a division of Penguin Random House) to publish...
The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go!
It is slated for publication in early Summer 2025, and will be written for anyone who wants to be able to identify the living beings around them regardless of educational level or experience. A HUGE thank you to my literary agent Jane Dystel of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC, and my editor at Ten Speed Press, Julie Bennett!
This isn't just another field guide--it's a how-to book on nature identification that helps you go from "I have no idea what this animal/plant/fungus is and I don't know where to start" to "Aha! I know how to figure out what species I'm looking at/hearing!" Those familiar with my nature ID classes know that I emphasize skills and tools accessible to everyday people. Whether you're birdwatching, foraging, or just enjoying the nature around you, my goal is to help you be more confident in figuring out what living beings you encounter wherever you go--and not just in the Pacific Northwest. 
The Everyday Naturalist will not only explain what traits you need to pay attention to like color, size, shape, location, etc. and how to use them to differentiate among similar species, but will also detail how and when to use tools like apps, field guides, and more. (And given the current kerfuffle about A I generated foraging books, I will of course include information on how to determine the veracity of a given book or other resource.) And my editor and I have already been discussing some great additions to the book that will make it even more user-friendly!
Are you excited about this? I certainly am! I wanted to wait until the pixels were dry on the contract before going public with this (though my newsletter subscribers got to hear about it last month, lucky them!) It still doesn't feel real, but I'm already working on the manuscript so it'll sink in soon enough.
I will, of course, keep you all apprised of my progress because this project is going to be a big part of my life over the next several months as I write and edit and write and edit and wash, rinse, repeat. So keep your eyes on this space for updates (and feel free to add yourself to my monthly email newsletter here, too!)
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godzilla-reads · 2 months
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♥️ Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
“Finally, however we might want to engage in progressive and transformative activism, there is one principle we should remember. This principle is associated with Dr. Martin Luther King and should be the slogan of all our movements: ‘Justice is indivisible. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’”
In this collection of essays, interviews, and speeches, activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminated the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.
Freedom is a constant struggle. It’s something we must be aware about, something that we must put in active effort into if we want to see it come about. One of my favorite sections of this book was a part in Chapter 9 that spoke about generational activism. That we must see beyond our individual selves and fight for a future that goes beyond just our lifetime. That really moved me, as this whole book did.
The dates on the chapters jump around in the book, which I thought was different to follow, but overall this is a brilliant book that holds so much in such a small form, under 200 pages. I recommend everyone read it as a source of intersectionality and the power we have as a people.
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Rearranged the bookshelf! I have so many health inequity and body justice books now that they have their own shelf, so I had to rearrange things for Virginia.
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lesbienyu · 29 days
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pls rb if you post about or have a recommendation for blogs that post about:
-hatchet throwing
-archery
-homesteading/gardening/etc
-foraging
-antique wood restoration (home and furniture)
-darts/tips for playing darts and aiming and whatnot
-yoga
-herbology
-found sculpture
-nonfiction book recs and free PDF libraries
-crochet
-language learning, esp spanish, french, and somali
-prepper stuff
-cooking techniques and gourmet cooking/culinary arts stuff like textbooks, resources, etc (not recipes, wanting to focus on like flavor pairings, knife skills, etc)
just looking for more hobby blogs to follow! looking forward to learning more
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nonbinaryresource · 1 year
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All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T.C. Oakes-Monger
Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and the love and acceptance of their chosen families. Through a series of uplifting, generous and beautifully crafted vignettes, T. C. Oakes-Monger gently leads you through the cycle of the seasons - beginning in Autumn and the shedding of leaves and identity, moving through the darkness of Winter, its cold days, and the reality of daily life, into Spring, newness, and change, and ending with the joy of long Summer days and being out and proud - and invites you to find similar moments of joy in your life. Celebratory and empowering, these stories are a reminder of the power joy can bring.
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tododeku-or-bust · 9 months
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Yeeeeeah boyyy time for some more reading!! It's another thing I'll have some more time to do again, so it's this one up after i finished Evicted
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ilona-mushroom · 2 years
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There’s few books I like more than biographies of authors, and this one has been a delight.
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rockislandadultreads · 6 months
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Read-Alike Friday: African Europeans by Olivette Otele
African Europeans by Olivette Otélé
Africans or African Europeans are widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe, a feature of our ‘modern’ society. But as early as the third century, St Maurice—an Egyptian— became the leader of a legendary Roman legion. Ever since, there have been richly varied encounters between those defined as ‘Africans’ and those called ‘Europeans’, right up to the stories of present-day migrants to European cities. Though at times a privileged group that facilitated exchanges between continents, African Europeans have also had to navigate the hardships of slavery, colonialism and their legacies.
Olivette Otele uncovers the long history of Europeans of African descent, tracing an old and diverse African heritage in Europe through the lives of individuals both ordinary and extraordinary. This hidden history explores a number of questions very much alive today. How much have Afro-European identities been shaped by life in Europe, or in Africa? How are African Europeans’ stories marked by the economics, politics and culture of the societies they live in? And how have race and gender affected those born in Europe, but always seen as Africans?
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.
On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit and others —enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants, traders—the reverse was true: they discovered Europe.
For them, Europe comprised savage shores, a land of riches and marvels, yet perplexing for its brutal disparities of wealth and quality of life, and its baffling beliefs. The story of these Indigenous Americans abroad is a story of abduction, loss, cultural appropriation, and, as they saw it, of apocalypse—a story that has largely been absent from our collective imagination of the times.
From the Brazilian king who met Henry VIII to the Aztecs who mocked up human sacrifice at the court of Charles V; from the Inuk baby who was put on show in a London pub to the mestizo children of Spaniards who returned “home” with their fathers; from the Inuit who harpooned ducks on the Avon river to the many servants employed by Europeans of every rank: here are a people who were rendered exotic, demeaned, and marginalized, but whose worldviews and cultures had a profound impact on European civilization.
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.
Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.
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sakiyaki-sashimi · 6 months
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Get to know you questions!! Tag whoever you like :D
Writing my answers in orange!
1) top 5 or top 10 favorite animals (depending on how many animals you like)
Hermit Crabs, Pigeons, Otters, Anglerfish, Shrimp, Cats, Manned Wolves, Salamander, Sheep, Axolotls :D
2) top 3 Minecraft mobs
Mooshroom, chicken, and parrot!!!
3) favorite vocaloid song or My Singing Monsters island theme and why! (If you don’t like/know Vocaloid/MSM, just name a song or genre you like and why :D)
Fav Vocaloid song is Brain Explosion girl recently, and fav MSM theme HAS to be cold island. Or maybe earth???? Hm
4) favorite and least favorite textures, no why needed :333
Fav is squishy soft things, least favorite is ice in a freezer
5) not your favorite color, but your favorite color palette (bonus points if you have a pic of the specific palette or a photo/artwork of the pallet you like!!)
Purple, Green, Orange, Pink, and Black! Total Halloween vibes!!
6) fav book you had to read for school (fiction or non fiction work lol, and if you don’t like/have any then just name a book or fanfic you like!)
Of Mice and Men was surprisingly amazing! Thought I’d hate it tbh
7) how do you think of the months of the year in your head? Left to right, top to bottom, in specific numbered rows and columns? Tell me :D
I think of it like this:
January, February, March, April
May, June, July, August
September, October, November, December
8) assigned harry potter/ilvermorny house or Percy Jackson cabin or Warrior cats clan something like that lol (if you don’t have anything like that, star sign works too!)
I’ll do em all lol: Slytherin/Hufflepuff, Pukwudgie, Dionysus’s, RiverClan, I’m an Aries sun/gemini rising/pisces moon :D
9) MBTI???? Love those things :33 (If you haven’t taken the test yet or u just don’t wanna cuz it’s too long, are you a solider poet or king?)
I’m an ENFP-T! I thought I’d get king but I got poet lol
10) something “cringe” you actually rly like, no shame here :D
Gacha Life/Club, the styles just so cutesy! Ohhh also K-Pop, I’m a TOTAL stay :33 and DSMP, it’s just rly cool to me
11) characters from shows/movies/games you kin/stan/just adore!! NOT ACCEPTING IRL PPL PLZ AND THANK U :D (unless it’s urself, we like self love in these parts)
For me I currently kin Dazai, Edward Elric, c!TommyInnit, and I completely STAN any Project Sekai character. I mean any of them.
12) 5 people you’d wanna be at a party with and why! (Can be alive or dead, real or fake, celebrities or randos, humans or otherwise :D)
My grandpa to see him again, Roy mustang to see if he’s a bastard irl, Hachi/Kenshi Yonezu just to see how he’s doing, Kanye West to just ask him why, and BeastChild (the YouTuber) just cause I really like his stuff and would wanna meet him!
13) favorite hobby/fandom specific term and its meaning :333
I’m a writer (well, aspiring anyway, I’m not rly that good) and I love the idea of the sexy lamp. Basically if you’re writing a female character that could be replaced with a sexy lampshade and nothing about the story changes then you’re writing a BAD FEMALE CHARACTER XD
Cause it’s spooky season il leave it at 13 ;)
Happy answering!!!
No pressure tags :3 @touratoura @theancientwonder @kneecoal-mooma @citrushomie @skytheamazing @mitski-slope @a-trench-coat-of-confused-worms @dicklesswonder-blog @vicaridoo
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bookishfreedom · 9 months
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I’m officially behind on my “one nonfiction book per month” goal
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Started reading 15/10/23.
Currently reading Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé’s ‘On Palestine’. It’s a reflection on the enduring Palestinian struggle and the role of the international community in addressing human rights abuses by the white supremacist state of Israel, and in light of the recent world events, the need to stand in solidarity w Palestinians has never been more critical.
Chomsky, alongside Ilan Pappé, discusses the road ahead fr Palestinians, shedding light on the historical context of their plight. They emphasise the importance of international pressure on Israel to end its human rights abuses. Overall, this dialogue resonates w the broader global conversation on justice and human rights, especially in the context of Indigenous struggles here in so-called Australia.
The parallels drawn between the Indigenous struggle in Australia and the Palestinian struggle highlight the common threads of settler colonialism, genocide, and the supremacy of certain cultures. Both Australia and Israel have complex histories rooted in colonisation, which has had profound consequences fr Indigenous populations. These logics have shaped the creation and maintenance of these nations and their treatment of Indigenous peoples.
Chomsky and Pappé’s work invites us to reflect on the shared experiences of Indigenous communities worldwide and underscores the importance of solidarity and international pressure in addressing these injustices. It also serves as a reminder that the struggles of Indigenous peoples transcend geographical boundaries, connecting those fighting fr their rights and dignity on different fronts.
I have a good feeling about this book. If you have any other recommendations of books on the Palestinian struggle, please send them my way!
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rebeccathenaturalist · 11 months
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It's Disability Book Week, and I wanted to bring to your attention to one of my favorite trail guides, The Disabled Hiker's Guide to Western Washington and Oregon! While I am not currently disabled, I likely will be as I age, and most of us will end up disabled at some point in our lives whether due to health, age, or circumstance. Also, as a tour guide taking people out onto trails, it's really important for me to remember that not everyone has the same physical capabilities that I take for granted, so I need to take everyone's abilities and limitations into account when planning a tour.
This, then, is an excellent resource, whether you're currently disabled or not. Syren Nagakyrie has written a thorough guide to several dozen trails throughout western Washington and Oregon. Each entry has an exceptionally detailed description of what to expect along the way, as well as important information like whether there's cell phone reception, are dogs allowed, what the trail surface is like, etc. There's also a spoon rating, which gives disabled folks a heads-up as to what challenges may face someone using mobility aids, dealing with chronic illness, etc. And it's a great ways for those of us who are not disabled to understand that what may be an "easy" trail for us isn't necessarily going to be "easy" for many disabled people.
You can get the book directly from the author at https://www.disabledhikers.com/2020/03/19/the-disabled-hikers-guidebook or pick it up from your local indie bookstore!
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godzilla-reads · 5 months
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@wistfulwillowturtle This is the newest crow book I’ve started to read. After finishing the Tony Angell book, I really wanted to see more books on crows, so I found this one on a reading list.
“Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness” by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
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I rowed in college, and I’m excited to see The Boys in the Boat movie adaptation! It’s a fantastic narrative nonfiction and sports story, plus it’s a great depiction of the sport of crew!
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pattytempleton · 11 months
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Hell yeah, a bigass history of goth as reported by John Robb. He focuses on 1980s goth and its impact on music and culture but goes into the future a bit. All of the shit you want to read about by someone who was there.
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