From Red Bird (2008) by Mary Oliver
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Halfway thru the excellent, Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Standiford. (This is the 5th book by Standiford I have read. Heâs becoming fav.)
I had always assumed that overvaluing companies that donât make profits or creating companies for the sole purpose of getting swallowed up by larger ones was a modern invention.
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Yâall can get this at preorder price for one more day btw (:
We only need a few on Amazon to get to a really nice numerical milestone, so Iâd appreciate it <3
âTrans/Rad/Femâ drops TOMORROW! Itâll be available as a paperback too
â⌠I wish that I could send this book back in time to my younger self - and to all the trans women longing for a clearer reflection of our lives. This [book] stands powerfully alongside the work of thinkers such as Vivian Namaste, Mirha Soleil-Ross, and Julia Serano.â - Kai Cheng Thom, author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Can a synthesis of trans liberation and feminism be easily arrived at? This collection asserts that, as a matter of fact, we possessed the answer to that question decades ago.
Second-Wave feminism is, today, nearly synonymous with âtransphobiaâ. Any mention of this era or the movement of âradical feminismâ conjures images of feminists allying with right-wingers and the authoritarian state, providing legal justification for outlawing gender-affirming care and spreading deeply evil caricatures of trans women to rationalize their exclusion as feminist subjects. In the ensuing struggle to reconcile trans rights with feminism, the specter of the trans-exclusionary radical feminist has often reared its head in opposition. One may be tempted to conclude that the Second Wave, as a whole, has done irreparable harm to feminist, queer and trans politics, and must be discarded entirely.
But is that truly the case?
Radical feminism also is responsible for repudiating bioessentialistic notions of gender with theories that place it as a firmly social phenomenon. It gave us the language to describe patriarchy as a regime of mandatory heterosexual existence and dared to dream of a post-gender existence long before anyone spoke the phrase âbreaking the binaryâ. Modern transfeminism owes much to radical feminist theory, and despite all propaganda to the contrary, the two schools of thought may be far more allied than believed.
This series of essays aims to reconstruct and reintroduce the radical feminist framework that its misbegotten inheritors seem determined to forget and in doing so boldly makes the claim that transfeminism, far from being antagonistic to radical feminism, is in fact its direct descendant. It shows how a comprehensive social theory of transsexual oppression flows almost naturally from radical feminist precepts and dares to declare that a materialist, radical transfeminism is the way forward to seize the foundations of patriarchy at the root.
Also available here:
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Looks good, ordered my copy!
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Iâm going to order one in a little bit. I havenât decided if Iâm going to order through amazon or itch.io yet
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I really enjoyed this darkly hilarious hilariously dark novel. It conveys young white artistically aspirational Midwestern relatively well off peopleâs middle age emotions and frustrations really well.
A review that discusses pretty well some things I liked about it:
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Iâll be receiving my paperback copy on Sunday.
I saw someone post this and Iâm looking forward to reading the book:
ETA:
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Paperback wonât suddenly vanish from your Kindle. Moar paperbacks please!
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I donât normally purchase ebooks, unless itâs the only format available.
She does have ebook copies available through itch for people worried about Amazon removing things from their library.
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Rad 
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My wife is the real Connie Willis fan in our house, but I like this one a lot. Read it first when it came out, but just getting around to reading it again.
Weâve seen Connie a couple times at sf cons. She is really funny in person, and this book is funny as well. (Unlike some of her work which can be pretty downbeat).
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If you want a really funny example of her work, try To Say Nothing of the Dog, a hilarious take on Jerome K. Jeromesâs Three Men in a Boat.
A much grimmer work is The Doomsday Book (maybe the one youâre thinking of).
Both books are set in the world of her Oxford Time Travel series, but the tones are very different.
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Yep thatâs it. My wifeâs told me a lot about it. She loves it despite the tone of the book. However, she says sheâs not going to read Passage again as itâs too grim (is that in the time travel series?).
I read Three Men in a Boat recently but I donât recall reading To Say Nothing of the Dog. I did start Remake but I didnât like the humor, which included people talking past each other. Not my cup of tea.
I have liked some of her humorous short stories.
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Is this a new story or is it an adaptation of the TV show?
Great portrait of Darrin McGavin by the way.
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Itâs a reprint of the original novel with some illustrations and with a premium book treatment. So - basically the first tv movie plot. The original book had been out of print for a while & old copies cost an arm and a leg.
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Even better.
Oh, now I see it says âthe original novelâ on the cover.
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I just started reading it yesterday and am 1/3 through it.
She doesnât pull any punches (which is as it should be).
A few of the things she said in the chapter where she talked about being a boy who was supposed to become a man, really resonated with me even though her situation was very different from mine.
(I do tend to prefer ebooks, just because I would be buried in books if I didnât (I already have a ton of them I need to sell or donate), and I can take them with me everywhere, and no nosy people need to know what Iâm reading, and the cat wonât tear them upâŚ)
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