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Sophie

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#Librarian, #archivist, #educator.

Active in oral history, particularly with https://glammr.us/@LouisianaTransOralHistory, https://tech.lgbt/@mappingtransjoy & https://glammr.us/@SolidarityHistory. #Trans, #queer, #parent. Pronouns: they/she

Sharing #kidArt, #dogPics, #parentingStories, general positivity and project updates. #queerHistory #oralHistory #transHistory #transLiberation #protectTransYouth

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Just finished A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA: ANATOMY OF A JERUSALEM TRAGEDY, by Nathan Thrall

This is both a snapshot of the contemporary state of and an approachable of the area wrapped in heartbreaking personal stories, all rotating around a single catastrophe that could only happen in a city built on infrastructure

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Just finished Christina Rivera Garza’s “Lilliana’s Invincible Summer: a sister’s search for justice”

Beautiful reflection on , , , as well as , toxic , and .

Reminds me that perhaps it’s time to grieve some folks in my life too 💜💜

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Just finished “Record of a Spaceborn Few,” by Becky Chambers

Set in the same universe as (and with some references to) her “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet,” and “A Closed and Common Orbit,” this is a another lovely, humane look at community, belonging, history and intentionality.

🔭🚀🪐💜

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@cdfinder @bookstodon I thought I was forgetting one! Can you remind me of the 4th title? I’m honestly not sure I’ve read it yet

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@cdfinder @bookstodon adding it to the TBR list 💜💜

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I’m working on an article for a magazine about the scene in , so I picked back up my copy of “Make a Zine: Start Your Own Underground Publishing Revolution.”

Always a fun read, and I’m always happy to be reminded that: “Passion gets you through times of no technique better than technique gets you through times of no passion.”

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Just finished Kim Ghattis’s “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East”

Ghattis starts with the question, “what happened to us?” Countries once rich in culture and art — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan — are now smothered in religious conservatism. She traces how we all got to where we are, and what hope looks like now.

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Just finished “: and Profit in the City,” by Matthew Desmond

He says it’s not his intent to unduly villainize any particular group, and I believe him. But it brought back a lot of memories from my chaotic youth in trailer parks and I’m pretty ready to hate some fucking landlords

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Just finished “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America”

Learned a lot about the role of the NAACP in criminal cases in the Jim Crow South. So much bravery in the face of klan violence and systemized dehumanization. Will definitely be seeking out biographies of Thurgood Marshall soon.

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@MarvinFreeman @bookstodon I haven’t! Will check it out, thanks!

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@DeborahForPlus @MarvinFreeman @bookstodon Thanks!

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Just finished Kris Manjapra’s “Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation”

Fascinating and heartbreaking analysis of how has always been a means of continuing slavery while pretending to eliminate it (via “indenture periods” and reparations to slavers for “property lost”) and how to move past this for a more world

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@bookstodon some of my favorite

“Reparative justice demands ways of retelling the past that detect the voices previously consigned to the archival void; and of rewriting history in ways that matter to those voices and that make those voices matter to us”

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@bookstodon another

“Certainly, the focus on the long trajectory of slavery in the American South is a convenient narrative, allowing mainstream publics to disavow the active forms of enslavement, and the widespread social and political complicity, of Northern society. For contemporary Northerners, to forget about the North's involvement is also to shirk any need to take responsibility.”

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What I am reading tonight... @bookstodon

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@jimkane57 @bookstodon I’ve been listening to his guest appearances on the podcast “Empire”. This book is definitely on my to-read list.

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Just finished “How to Hide an Empire,” by Daniel Immerwahl

I’m often surprised by how much I don’t know, but this really astonished me with my own ignorance. I’m embarrassed to say how little I knew of US colonialism, territories, and global military bases

Immerwahl explains the post WWII / as a product of technological innovation in a clear (and very readable) way. Highly recommend!

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@karlcow @bookstodon It’s discussed at length. Book designs are what they are 🤷‍♀️

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Any N.K. Jemisin fans who haven’t read this short story collection, I highly recommend it!

In the introduction, she discusses her initial reluctance to write short stories, and how she came to see the value, as both art and a place to explore what becomes longer fiction. (It’s hard to miss the beginnings of some of her later work peeking through these pieces!)

Anyway, it’s great! 💜

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“This is the paradox of tolerance, the treason of free speech: we hesitate to admit that some people are just fucking evil and need to be stopped.”

  • NK Jemisin, “The Ones Who Stay and Fight”

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On this 85 degree (F) day in late October, I’m starting Jeff Goodell’s “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death On A Scorched Planet”

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New day!! “A Second Chance for Yesterday,” by @RASinn

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Started this some months ago, but didn’t get far (yes, fine, if you must know I did lose it and had to return it to the library by the time I found it)

But now I own it, and I’m trying again!

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Starting a new book! Wish me luck!!

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@weirdwriter @bookstodon sad trombone

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