Posts Tagged ‘feminism’
Recitiri în Iarnă. Explorând genul în Gethen cu Ursula K Le Guin
Atunci mi-am amintit de „Mâna stângă a întunericului” de Ursula K. Le Guin, un roman care se petrece în întregime pe Gethen, o planetă zisă și Iarnă. Acolo, un trimis al Ecumenului, Genly Ai, are sarcina de a convinge suveranii națiunilor de a se alătura ligii umanității.
„Mâna stângă a întunericului” e volumul care m-a făcut să mă îndrăgostesc iremediabil de ficțiunea speculativă.
Read MoreViral Eve – scraps for an ecofeminist compost ethic & transpecies reproductive justice
“Eva virale – La vita oltre i confini di genere, specie e nazione” by Angela Balzano is written across genres, mingling feminist critical theory with case studies, essay-form writing with activist accounts. (…) her writings begin by being positioned in Italy, specifically the South, and don’t assume universality even when making big arguments, such as those for making posthuman kin instead of reproducing the nuclear, white, human family.
Read MoreDear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow or Dear Poetry, How Are You So Powerful
I read “Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.” by Noor Hindi like one passes through a storm, intensely and hurried, and then I read it again with a close friend, N., slower, letting it simmer through us.
It is powerful, superbly formed, disruptive of anti-arab narratives,
Read More10 speculative fictions I read and loved in 2023
Because I love lists & speculative fiction & remembering what I thought about what I read, I’m making this one – it has no order except kind-of-a-chronological order? And it contains a bit of cheating because the last two I finished in 2024 and
Read More“Abolish the family” – On the unfairness of kinship practices
As a child, who has not wondered why they were given certain parents, and not others? And maybe, our parents have wondered the same about us.
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