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crimes of the elite: a deep dive
voted on here. (other editions) bold = favourite
corporate harms
behind the smiles at amazon
the long, dark shadow of bhopal (bhopal gas disaster)
how lobbying blocked european safety checks for dangerous medical implants
7-eleven revealed
who controls the world's food supply?
the true cost of tuna: marine observers dying at sea
how a big pharma company stalled a potentially lifesaving vaccine in pursuit of bigger profits
24 years after, some victims not compensated and still can't live normal lives (pfizer's nigeria vaccine trials)
the corporate crime of the century
uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals (the uber files)
the baby killer (nestle infant formula scandal)
2 paths of bayer drug in 80's: riskier one steered overseas (hiv-risk contaminated blood product scandal)
global banks defy u.s. crackdowns by serving oligarchs, criminals and terrorists (fincen files)
the ultra-rich
eliminalia: a reputation laundromat for criminals
the fall of the god of cars (international fugitive carlos ghosn)
a u.s. billionaire took over a tropical island pension fund. then hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly went missing (cyprus confidential)
how the wealthiest avoid income tax (the irs files)
the haves and the have-yachts
madoff and his models (madoff ponzi scheme)
the imposter (blockchain terminal fraud)
the ultra-rich: (allegedly) stolen antiquities
crime of the centuries
stolen treasure traders
a hunt for cambodia's looted heritage leads to top museums (pandora papers)
an art crime for the ages
#studyblr#studyspo#student#university#productivity#reading lists#literature#criminology#crime#mydeepdives#i'm working on the lists for state crime and online crime rn!! coming soon hopefully#i will get to all the poll options eventually
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So I'm reading The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein and I think it's difficult for the layperson--even ostensibly antizionists, passionate antizionists--to fully grasp the extent to which Israel is just a manufacturing plant that exports death and destruction. The extent to which Israel depends entirely on narrative to survive, especially as a nation whose closet of skeletons includes every single victim of genocide in the post WWII world that they could support the externination of. From Argentina to Uganda to Bosnia to Paraguay to Myanmar to Chile to Zimbabwe and Iraq and Lebanon and Brazil; Israel sides with whoever is paying for guns and "anti-terror" training which consists primarily of torture.
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"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it," and those who don't question history's methods, standards, and values are doomed to never learn it. Here are five free historiography essays.
Venus in Two Acts: A scholar of African American history grapples with the problem of writing about a slave when "no one recorded the things she said, or observed that she refused to say anything at all".
Introduction to Agnotology: A historian and philosopher who has spent his life fighting corporate disinformation campaigns writes “about the conscious, unconscious, and structural production of ignorance”.
Introduction to Landmark Thucydides: A contemporary historian evaluates the research methods, and reliability, of a “historian” born around 460 BC. The full introduction is available in the Amazon preview.
Can the Mosquito Speak?: What happens when history focuses on nonhuman forces? How have animals shaped human society?
The Idea of Provincializing Europe: A postcolonial historian confronts his own intellectual “inheritance” of Enlightenment thought: the methods and standards of the colonizers.
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i was scrolling your “life is in your home too” tag, which I love btw, and saw a post about how you learned to be a good dom from experienced expert doms by reading how they dom and some of their best scenes, do you think you could point me in the direction of some resources for me to study that too? thanks in advance, if not, thanks anyway!
(post referenced is here - link 1)
first of all tysm for this ask (+ your incredibly kind follow-up), it was a delight to receive + i’ve been wanting an excuse to talk about a lot of this for a while so i very much appreciate the interest!
as always please keep in mind that i am Just Some Fem, nothing is universal including when it comes to D/s & i can only speak to what works for me. i try to focus on starting points rather than specifics but ultimately my advice will always be limited by what i needed to hear & wasn’t told, which may not be what’s helpful for a different person. with that being said, here’s some suggestions!
i’ve posted a previous reading list (link 2) with relevant recs; particularly the practicality + sex writing sections have the kind of thing you’re looking for. specifically, The New Topping Book (2003) is a solid starting point; i definitely have my issues with it (haven’t read it recently enough to recall many specifics but i have the sense of general pervasive racism & ableism) but it did a good job at making me think & i appreciate the supportive tone they were going for
another book added to my tbr since then is Coming to Power (link 3), released by SAMOIS in 1983
other authors whose sex writing has been influential in my life: Sandra Cisneros, Natalie Diaz, Joan Nestle, Judy Grahn
the fic At The End of His Rope by Letterblade (link 4) is genuinely some of my favorite sex writing of all time & accomplishes the incredibly impressive feat of representing a broad array of dom styles & changes over time in the same piece
my “impurity culture” tag (link 5) houses the building blocks of my sexual ethic
i’ve found many of those foundations by poking around the incredible bodies of work original & archived @newsmutproject @woman-loving @gatheringbones
for me, studying sex is the same as studying poetry – reading for craft is a different process than for pleasure (not that there isn’t a great deal of pleasure to be found in such practice, especially for sadists – perhaps that’s why as a child i never resonated with Billy Collins’ “Introduction to Poetry,” like i love tying poems to chairs & beating them idk what to tell you). so, keeping in mind that these are suggestions not requirements, here’s how i read for + work on craft:
there is no such thing as too much journaling. this can take whatever form you prefer – voice memo, discord message to yourself, the noble notes app, your own personal sexy red string corkboard, a vast & stunning array of other approaches i can’t even begin to imagine. i personally have an elaborate web of spreadsheets & google docs lmao. what matters is developing a collection of ideas you want to play with + a practice of continually reflecting on past experiences.
pay attention to structure, not just content. find a scene you think is disjointed and pick at the seams, brainstorm better transitions. then find a scene that flows so smoothly it carries you with it and figure out what makes it work.
rewrite a scene you’re drawn to or affected by to suit your own preferences. i first did this when i couldn’t shake “Interlude 3” (link 6) from my head after reading The New Topping Book; you can read my variation on the theme here (link 7) if you’re interested.
write or think through a scene fantasy you have from negotiation to aftercare. obviously it’s very difficult if not impossible to fully script a scene in advance; the purpose isn’t planning something you’ll later do but rather getting used to coming up with ideas to get from one disparate moment / act to the next.
revisit a scene you’ve read, written, thought about, etc and list the physical & mental acts that are required / expected of the sub (eg, kneeling for 10 minutes; making eye contact; counting to 30, etc). then rework the scene for a sub who has the same interests & goals who cannot do 20% (or 50%, or any) of these acts.
revisit a previous scene and list the places where you think a sub might safeword & why. then rework it with the sub safewording somewhere that isn’t any of these places.
i also recommend keeping in mind that like… for me, reading about ethical sex can often be a very distressing process for the same reason that it’s liberating: because it proves that things i’ve experienced are not the way sex has to be. i’ll tell this story in its fullness one day but the first time i read S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt i literally had a flashback to events i’d repressed for years, it was devastating, i’m so grateful for it. hell, in the process of compiling resources for this post i cried twice editing this quote (link 8) because between reading that book the first time & now someone did “respond with scorn or ridicule” when i safeworded. so i would really encourage folks to approach this kind of work with as much grace & comfort for yourself as you can muster or borrow – if it’s really fucking hard, you’re not alone in that, & it’s okay to take your time + pace yourself + seek support.
your + others’ interest is definitely motivating me to actually write posts i’ve been tossing around for months so thank you again & feel free to keep an eye out for more shut-in sex tips in my new “tomorrow sexting will be good again” tag. would love to hear your thoughts on any of this post / these or other books / whatever really lol. wishing you all the best & i hope today is kind to you! 💓
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Sports and Politics reading list
(all can be found for free/libgen links)
The ‘Ungrateful Athlete’: Anti-Black, Anti-Labor Currents in Sports Media: Podcast episode from Citations Needed about the coverage of sportspersons in the United States. Interviews professor Amira Rose Davis.
Revolt of the Black Athlete, by Harry Edwards. Remember that fist raised in protest by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics? Sociologist and activist Harry Edwards was the architect of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, which led to the Black Power Salute and called for an Olympics boycott.
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Fan by Jessica Luther and Kavitha Davidson is a set of essays about what complicates sports fandom in modern sports by two journalists.
Beyond a Boundary by CLR James is a history and memoir of cricket in the West Indies and colonial legacies. James is a Trinidadian Marxist best known for writing The Black Jacobins.
Soccer in the Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeanos is a rebellious history of football through an anti imperialist lens. Galeanos is better known for his book Open Veins of Latin American.
Anyone but England: Cricket, Race and Class by Mike Marquesse: A Jewish American takes a look at cricket’s storied history when it comes to race and class, with particular focus on apartheid South Africa.
Marxism, Cultural Studies and Sports is a collection of essays in the Routledge Critical Studies in Sports series. Of interest is Chapter 7 on black Marxism and the politics of sport. Chapter 8 overviews theories of sporting celebrity, class and black feminism in context of the Williams sisters.
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Football by Suzy Wrack is a history of english women's football. If you've heard that women's football was banned by the FA in reaction to its encroaching on the popularity of the men's game, this is a good place to start abt that history to the present day.
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Lonnie Machin/Anarky/Moneyspider: Complete (New Earth) Reading Guide
Who is Lonnie Machin?
Lonnie Machin first entered the post-Crisis DC Universe in 1989 in Detective Comics (1937) Issues #608-609, written by Alan Grant and penciled by Norm Breyfogle. Inspired by the likes of V from Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and Chopper from Judge Dredd, Lonnie would become a relative thorn in the bourgeoisie (and Batman)'s side as the vigilante Anarky, the self-proclaimed 'voice of the people', until 2009. An impassioned young idealist and genius hacker/engineer, Lonnie would often be referred to as an 'anti-villain' by writers and fans alike - though he would remain outside of Batman's general rogues gallery, caring about making Gotham and the world as a whole a better place for the common man.
He would go on to star in two solo series, team up twice with Oliver Queen's Green Arrow, and eventually come to aid Tim Drake (as Red Robin) under the previously established hacker alias 'Moneyspider' from 2009 until the New 52 reboot in 2011.
What does this guide include?
Linked below is a spreadsheet including most/all of Lonnie Machin's comic appearances from his debut up to the New 52 (plus a few post-reboot recommendations). Sorted chronologically, each row features information such as title date and writer/penciller, which identity/mantle is most prominent in each appearance, personal notes on the contents of each issue, and a section for any content warnings that may need addressed.
Happy reading!
The Guide
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Fuck it, you want to read Jackie Napier? Here's how:
So, there's a few ways to go about it. There's reading all of White Knight and there's reading just the stuff that's like, very important to Jackie.
Guide: Important Reads, Jackie Specific Reads, Recommended Reads
Batman: White Knight
Batman: Curse of the White Knight
Batman White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn
Batman Beyond the White Knight
Batman White Knight Presents: Generation Joker
Reasonings under the read more:
Batman: White Knight
In order to understand the overall story of the Murphyverse, you kind of have to start from the beginning. This will establish a lot of what's going on and get you in on the lore and make a lot of things make more sense. A definite must read
Batman: Curse of the White Knight
Explains what happened to the Joker, gives us more background, and is Jackie and Bryce's first introduction! They're just babies but still it's something
Batman White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn
Gives some background to the kid's childhood and also the general past of the Murphyverse. First speaking roles for Jackie and Bryce, even if they're minor because they're just toddlers
Batman Beyond the White Knight
Another must read, especially for Jackie. She's the driving force of this book and this gives us a big exploration of her character and also our first real look at who she is. This is the Jackie Napier book
Batman White Knight Presents: Generation Joker
The newest book in the Murphyverse, but also one of the best and most important in terms of Jackie characterization. Also big in terms of her brother! BIG for both of their growth
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hey, i don't want to put you out or anything, i was just wondering if like off the top of your head if you knew any disability studies articles/books/whatever that center (or even just feature) tic/involuntary movement disorders?
so the answer to this was pretty much no but i spent a bit of time poking around and turned up this 2023 undergraduate honors thesis (link) by a student with tourette’s which seems like a solid starting point for going down the citation rabbit hole!
that piece is “The Embodied Performance of Tics and Tourette Syndrome in the Academic Environment” by Benjamin Allen; i’m only ~1/4th through rn but they argue for a continuum of ticcing + criticize the diagnostic system so i’m comfortable reccing it on that front! the (non-medical) tic-related works cited there are:
Buckser, Andrew. “Before Your Very Eyes: Illness, Agency, and the Management of Tourette Syndrome.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, 2008, pp. 167-192.
Buckser, Andrew. “The Empty Gesture: Tourette Syndrome and the Semantic Dimension of Illness.” Ethnology, vol. 45, no. 4, 2006, pp. 255- 24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20456601.
Curtis-Wendlandt, Lisa. “Time and the Tic Disorder Triad.” Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, vol 27, no. 2, 2020, pp. 183-199.
Curtis-Wendlandt, Lisa, and Jack Reynolds. “Why Tourette syndrome research needs philosophical phenomenology.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 20, no. 4, 2021, pp. 573-600.
Miller, James. “The Voice in Tourette Syndrome.” New Literary History, vol. 32 no. 3, 2001, pp. 519-536. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/nlh.2001.0039.
Trubody, Ben. “Ticced off: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of The Experience of Tourette’s Syndrome.” Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014.
i also searched a handful of disability studies journals for a variety of keywords (movement disorder, tic, tourette’s, involuntary movement, chorea, huntington’s) but didn’t turn up much unfortunately, so all but the first of this next list include someone with tics and/or involuntary movements rather than being about moving involuntarily.
haven’t read these so i can’t speak to the politics / quality (although i’ll make a post if i’m able to read more) but here’s what seemed potentially relevant! also if anything is paywalled please don’t give T&F your money lol, try SciHub or if you can’t find something i can ask around for somebody with institutional access!
Cultural Differences in Reactions to Tics and Tic Severity (2021)
Using virtual reality to implement disability studies’ advocacy principles: uncovering the perspectives of people with disability (2023)
I had every right to be there: discriminatory acts towards young people with disabilities on public transport (2020)
From comedy targets to comedy-makers: disability and comedy in live performance (2015)
From the Case Files: Reconstructing a history of involuntary sterilisation (2010)
i also want to mention “Movements of the Uncontrollable Body Part Two” by Bronwyn Valentine (2019), a creative writing piece about her experiences of embodiment + ableism with spina bifida that i first read pretty soon after it was published & went looking for after developing my movement disorder a year ago because it was so impactful. @fndportal also has some incredibly vital work.
also if you haven’t already read Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Staring: Why We Look, it’s not specifically about involuntary movements but definitely a core text for theorizing any visibilized disability.
i hope some of that is helpful!! if anybody checks any of these out i’d love to hear your thoughts/critiques! all the best to you & i hope these offer some resonance with + understanding of your experiences 💓💓
#tics#ticcing#involuntary movements#movement disorder#disability studies#asks#reading lists#movements of the uncontrollable body
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Who is.... Mia Dearden | Speedy? - A Reading Guide
Mia Dearden (Speedy) is the adopted daughter of Oliver Queen (Green Arrow)- she is introduced in the first arc Green Arrow (2001). Mia's backstory is the definition of tragedy, she's a CSA survivor, a runaway, a human trafficking survivor, and as a result of her childhood trauma has been diagnosed as HIV+. Mia is a loudmouth who will backtalk villains, family members, and anyone she encounters. She fought Oliver Queen for the chance to become Speedy, and took up the mantle of Speedy because her life means something to her and what she wants to do with it is help others.
Reading list under the cut!
The following is a list of Mia's appearances barring those in the N52. As always if multiple issues from a run are listed, only the first issue will be linked as the assumption is that you can navigate to the other issues yourself.
Green Arrow (2001) #2-6, 8-11, 13-15, 22, 27, 29-35, 37-43
Green Lantern Rebirth #1
Green Arrow (2001) #44-47
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #21
Green Arrow (2001) #48
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #22
Countdown to Infinite Crisis #11
Green Arrow (2001) #49
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #23
Green Arrow (2001) #50
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #24-25
Green Arrow (2001) #52
Outsiders Vol. 3 #25
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #26
Gotham Central #34
Green Arrow (2001) #55-56
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #30
Green Arrow (2001) #57
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #31-32
Infinite Crisis #4
Robin Vol. 2 #146
Battle for Blüdhaven #1 (I couldn't find a link for this one T.T)
Infinite Crisis #5
Teen Titans Vol. 3 Annual #1
Robin Vol. 2 #147
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #34
Infinite Crisis #7
52 #10
Green Arrow (2001) #64
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #38
Green Arrow (2001) #65-75
Black Canary Vol. 3 #2-4
Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special
Countdown to Final Crisis
Green Arrow/Black Canary #1-9
Birds of Prey Vol. 1 #119
Green Arrow/Black Canary #10-14
Final Crisis #6
Birds of Prey Vol. 1 #124
Green Arrow/Black Canary #15
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #66
Green Arrow/Black Canary #24-26
Titans Vol. 2 #19
Green Arrow/Black Canary #27-29
Cry for Justice #7
Green Arrow/Black Canary #30
Rise of Arsenal #1
Green Arrow/Black Canary #31
Rise of Arsenal #2
Green Arrow/Black Canary #32
Teen Titans Vol. 3 #99-100
#mia dearden#speedy#arrowfam#reading lists#reading list#reading guide#reading guides#comic books#comics#dc comics#dc
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There's no such thing as a queer murder mystery without bury-your-gays
Winter's Orbit, The Mermaid Murders, Fatal Shadows, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Witchmark
Traditional publishing never publishes queer books by authors of color
Cinderella is Dead, Elatsoe, The Black Tides of Heaven, Black Water Sister, She Who Became the Sun, In the Vanisher's Palace, Black Sun, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Empress of Salt and Fortune, The Ivory Key, A Master of Djinn, The Bruising of Qilwa, She of the Mountains, Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Iron Widow, The Four Profound Weaves
Okay but how about SCREW THE TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING INDUSTRY
Prince of the Sorrows, the Last Girl Scout, In the Court of the Nameless Queen, Hunger Pangs, The Mermaid Murders, Fatal Shadows, Boyfriend Material, Queen of Cups, Check Please!, A Lady for a Duke
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crimes in the online space: a deep dive
voted on here. (other editions) bold = favourite
scams, hacks, & financial crime
the romance scammer on my sofa
the incredible rise of north korea's hacking army
heartbreaker
the fall of the billionaire gucci master
to catch a catfish
for trafficking victims forced to scam others, the nightmare continues even after escape
the great cyberheist
crying spouses and fake profiles: how the ashley madison hack changed everything
the dark web
hunting warhead
inside the fbi takedown of the mastermind behind website offering drugs, guns and murders for hire
merchant of death (pro-suicide forums)
the hunt for the dark web's biggest kingpin
the takedown of a dark web marketplace
the exploitation of women & children
she helped expose girls do porn, but she can never outrun what it did to her
catching the men who sell subway groping videos
how facebook and instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
how police cracked canada's largest child pornography ring
'i log into a torture chamber each day': the strain of moderating social media
the child exchange
#studyblr#studyspo#productivity#academia#university#reading list#reading lists#literature#criminology#crime#mydeepdives
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lists masterlist
my lists don't have any particular structure,, they're just easy ways to get my ideas out without creating entire posts and doing research (sometimes making things understandable is super hard for me, but it's what i strive to achieve in real posts).
my lists❤️
here's one on things to fill your morning with
here's a list of lists
things to be grateful for (a list)
20 traits of an attractive personality
some breakfast ideas
things to include more of in your life
hobbies
positive habit idea's
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#elonomh#elonomhblog#that girl#becoming that girl#chaotic academia#productivity#student life#academia#student#study blog#lists#book lists#reading lists#tier lists#resource#useful#it girl mentaility#it girl aesthetic#it girl energy#pinterest girl#pink pilates princess#girl blogger#it girl#vanilla girl#girlblogging
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The copy of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde I'm reading has an introduction and a timeline that discusses multiple interpretations that were made of the text, most of them psychological and/or sexual in nature. The text is placed into the context of political, socio-economic, psychiatric, and literary studies about the era.
A stage production of the novella was quickly produced and played in the US, but when it travelled to the UK, the actor who played Jekyll and Hyde had to suspend performances after four murders attributed to Jack the Ripper... because his portrayal of Hyde was so convincing that people suspected him of the crimes.
There's also information about a law that raised the age of consent for girls from 13 to 16... and how a rider on the bill outlawed certain acts between men... a few years later leading to the arrest and prosecution of Oscar Wilde.
A mention of "Bloody Sunday" in Trafalgar Square, along with other events of the class wars at the time.
How RLS and some of his colleagues and acquaintances were invalids who spent the greater part of their lives in health resorts in southern England as well as abroad, farther south. RLS himself eventually ended up in tropical Samoa, largely for health reasons. Didn't save him, though. I'm already older than he lived to be....
I haven't even started reading the novella itself, but my mind is reeling from all the information put forth in the introduction. I've barely scratched the surface of it here.
Now I want to put Black Butler into the same context, though it obviously wasn't written then, it's sure set then... and there, in England.
I feel like I need to read a bunch of works from the time, more than I already have. Thankfully, some of the other books I bought when I bought this are in the general category. Some of the authors in this latest major book haul are represented by Snake's snakes: Emily, Brontë, Oscar, Wilde, and possibly others.
I still haven't taken pics of the books I got, but I will. Probably tomorrow.
#black butler#kuroshitsuji#off topic slightly#strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde#robert louis stevenson#gothic literature#victorian gothic#reading lists#aug 26 2023
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Hozier Reading List of Free Texts You Can Finish in Less Than A Week
Another Hozier reading list is floating around the Internet, and it’s very thorough. Huge respect to @notmysophie for putting that together, they put in a lot of effort and research and it really shows. This is an alternative reading list for people who are too busy or tired to read all the entries on a complete list of Hozier’s literary influences. This list is incomplete—even after finishing it, there will be some very prominent literary references in Hozier’s music that might go over your head. But this will definitely help you appreciate the depth of thought in his songs, and if you read just five pages a night, you’ll be able to finish this reading list in less than one week.
ONE: ICARUS
Hozier puts the myth of Icarus to song in I, Carrion. You could very easily argue that Sunlight is also a response to Icarus. Many classical writers have told or mentioned his story, but I’ll let my own personal tastes shape this list, and recommend Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He tells the story of Icarus in Chapter 8 Lines 183–235. If you can afford it, I love the Charles Martin translation. You could consult the free Brookes More translation, or the one by A. S. Kline. Remember, you don't have to read the whole chapter--just find the part named "Daedalus and Icarus"
TWO: DOOMSDAY CLOCK
The title track Wasteland, Baby! is such a gentle love ballad, I almost have trouble remembering it’s about the apocalypse. Wasteland, Baby! finds hope and love in the face of annihilation. Hozier wrote this song as a direct response to the Doomsday Clock moving two minutes in 2018, one year before the album was released.
THREE: GENESIS 1-3
I also recommend reading Genesis Chapters 1-3. You’re probably familiar with the plot, but I think From Eden is such an ingenious twist on the familiar story that you’ll appreciate it even more after consulting the original. Hozier takes the symbols of Genesis 1-3 and uses them to make his own radically different point. The stories of Eden also come up in Be.
My favorite translation is by Robert Alter, but it’s currently not free online, so you might want to check out the Sefaria translation or the New King James Version (NKJV), both of which manage to capture the beauty of Genesis without becoming difficult for the average English reader. The King James Version (KJV) is also roughly the same level of difficulty as a Shakespeare play. I definitely think the KJV is beautiful, but at the end of a long hard day, you might be better off with the Sefaria, the NKJV, the NIV, or the NRSV. You can Google “Genesis 1” followed by any of those names/abbreviations, and you’ll find it right away.
FOUR: A MODEST PROPOSAL
Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, written in 1729, might be the most gutting satire in history. UCLA students put together a very thorough explanation of the economic suffering and the proposed “solutions” that inspired Swift. References to A Modest Proposal form the skeleton of Hozier’s Eat Your Young.
FIVE: SEAMUS HEANEY
Before learning about Seamus Heaney, you’ll need some background information on the Troubles. I recommend this National Geographic article. I also recommend looking through these Chris Steele Perkins photographs of life during the Troubles.
During the Troubles, Heaney wrote a series of poems about bog bodies. His poetry directly inspired the corpse imagery in Work Song, Like Real People Do, and In a Week.
Disclaimer: I cannot read Hebrew or Latin. I am evaluating these translations solely by 1) how difficult they are to read and 2) how beautiful they sound. I cannot independently review them for accuracy. Just know that all the translations I’ve listed are widely respected among academics and/or religious leaders.
Anyways if you liked reading this go check out my Substack where I originally posted it.
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Hi, love your blog, no pressure do you have any sex sociology etc related books or movies you recommended? Sorry if silly question!
not a silly question at all!! i love to read about this stuff & am always happy to talk about it :) i am however not very experienced with film so other than Bound being on my to-watch list since forever i don’t have any recommendations in that area
all of these recs are definitely at different points along a spectrum of how much i ascribe to or agree with; i avoid language of “safe, sane, & consensual,” for example, because i disagree with the requirement for safety and the positioning of sanity as synonymous with not doing harm. a lot of kink writing falls into the habit of trying to justify itself to normative society through language of health, which i find both useless & offensive lol. as far as content notes it’s also worth mentioning that many if not all of these works discuss stigma & trauma, including hate crimes, rape, and incest.
i have a prior list on my disability blog with recs about sex & disability, i highly recommend checking out my favorites from there! Emma Sheppard’s work in particular was life-changing for me. many of these were accumulated through her sources as well as from @gatheringbones ‘s excerpts
in no particular order:
sociology
Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy by Staci Newmahr
Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism, edited Darren Langdridge & Meg Barker
Sex and Disability, edited Robert McRuer & Anna Mollow
The Sexual Politics of Disability: Untold Desires by Tom Shakespeare, Kath Gillespie-Sells, & Dominic Davies
Unbreaking Our Hearts: Cultures of Un/Desirability and the Transformative Potential of Queercrip Porn by Loree Erickson (dissertation)
Dungeon Intimacies: The Poetics of Transsexual Sadomasochism by Susan Stryker (article)
Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex by Pat (now Patrick) Califia
Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice, edited Mark Thompson
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure, edited Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel
practicality
The New Topping Book by Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy
The New Bottoming Book by Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy
The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual, edited Pat (now Patrick) Califia
Fucking Trans Women by Mira Bellwether (zine)
sex writing
S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Skin by Dorothy Allison
Lover by Bertha Harris
Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love, and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary, edited Morty Diamond
Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink by Midori
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