#radical books

[xerserise]

Buy your radical books from radical people who use the profits for radical purposes.

(especially if you're a professor/researcher with funding)

They have a small selection in stock, and can order and ship what they don't have.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Clementine von Radics, from The Next Time We Talk On Facebook (via lunamonchtuna)

[egophiliac]

Do you have any final theories/desires for Book 7 Part 12?

(slamming fists on table) I DEMAND MORE CHE'NYA

[sickofthis666]

It's funny to see people say this about Gaiman now when they spent years doing it to JKR without shame...

[ballistic-goat]

Look what just came in the mail 👀

[dressed2k1ll]

Book review: Goddesses, Whores, Wives & Slaves by Sarah B Pomeroy (1975)

10/10

This was impossible to put down. A fascinating and vibrant history of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: from all walks of life, using just about every resource available within art and archaeology and anthropology.

It’s also also very very well researched and informative with a HUGE bibliography and a great index and lots of notes for the nerdy (aka me) who has already highlighted the next set of books to chew on.

Overall she argues (and does so persuasively with a great deal of thought and objectivity) that Roman women seemed to have enjoyed a higher quality of life than the Ancient Greek women because of generally (especially in upper class households) having a more public-facing life, being slightly more protected by the pater familias model of the Roman household, and having slightly more social mobility.

However a shout out goes to the Amazons and their social model for living 🏹🏹🏹

If you’re curious about the roles of women in varying Hellenistic and classical contexts, this is a must-read.

Her final words are so interesting and prescient too: “Serious intellectual thought about women continued: Stoicism, the most popular of the Hellenistic and Roman philosophies, directed women’s energies to marriage and motherhood. The argumentation is brilliant and difficult to refute. And this rationalized confinement of women to the domestic sphere, as well as the systemization of anti-female thought by poets and philosophers, are two of the most devastating creations in the classical legacy” 😢💔

Also, if you’re upset by reading about things like sexual slavery and infanticide, it might not be the book for you.

Overall, it’s staying in my collection and I’ll definitely be referring to it again.

[thediaryofarevolutionist]

Sometimes I just wish I was ignorant and didn't know anything. I wouldn't care about politics and would no longer break down when I find out about injustice against women. I just can't do it. I'm not strong enough and this misogyny is getting to me. It’s tearing me apart. I feel paralyzed and don't understand why women must go trough this. All i want is women to be safe and liberated but i dont see any hope.

[hay-bails]

i know i’m a true kaladin sicko because on my first read of radiance, i was worried he WOULDN’T ask for a boon

[1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt]

Someone posted this in a Trek group:

Counter theory:

"My theory was always that Spock was the unhinged and wild one -- a rebel by Vulcan standards -- and he radicalized "stack of book with legs" Jim Kirk.😂

Spock was the one out there mind melding with every Horta, Nomad and V'Ger while Jim and Bones absolutely panicked in the background.

Then Jim usually ended up being the one to get Spock out of it, too. The Apple, Operation Annihilate, A Private Little War, The Infinite Vulcan, TMP . . . How many times did we see Kirk have to carry Spock body and limb and slightly on fire back to the ship after he got into it?

The amount of shit Jim has to do for Spock in Star Trek III alone.

Spock is like the Enterprise housecat who stubbornly insists on being an outdoor cat and keeps escaping, later having to be carried back indoors. He keeps causing mischief but everybody loves his ass anyway.

Kirk and Spock were chaotic messes who loved their frontier first contact work in TOS and onward -- they deserved each other.😂👌

Shit, cat got out again.

[garadinervi]

Ntozake Shange, Hijo de las Americas, in A Daughter's Geography, Designed by Manuela Paul, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1983, pp. 49-50

[lunamonchtuna]

— Clementine Von Radics, from Courtney Love Prays to Oregon (via lunamonchtuna)

[fanzines]

The Common Press radical queer bookshop in East London is raising money to stay open. Please donate here to support it. This indie, intersectional queer bookshop stocks 7,000+ books, including queer fiction, queer zines / indie mags, queer parenting manuals, poetry, guides to queer relationships and polyamory + much more. It’s a sanctuary for storytelling and queer culture, and has become an essential third space for the LGBTQIA+ community in East London (it also serves a range of amazing coffee and drinks / snacks). Please donate to its crowdfunder if you can or visit…

The Common Press bookshop & café 118 Bethnal Green Road Shoreditch London E2 6DG United Kingdom Closest station: Shoreditch High Street (2 min walk). Find it on the map.

[sickofthis666]

"I bet a 7yo girl could kill a terf"

(Used in a popular post arguing against non mixed sports, because if you tell kids "i need a strong boy to carry x", the girls will carry 3 times x by sheer spite. As if radfems didnt know this! Been there done that, doesnt change the fact that there is way less physical differences between girls and boys before puberty, so DUH obvsly in a strength contest among 10 yo and under theres not rlly a need for separation)

If you had told 12yo me she must be a boy and should consider puberty blockers because she was going through her I Hate Pink phase and never wore dresses nor skirts and never understood why she was supposed to wear make-up, she'd have called you a sexist pos.

If you had told my mother that 7yo me was a boy and needed new pronouns because I prefered "boy" toys over "girl" toys and liked to climb trees, she would have laughed in your face and called you a reactionary sexist pos.

When you call someone an egg you’re basically saying "hey stranger who didnt ask for my opinion, you are failing to meet MY arbitrary standards of gender/masculinity/feminity, thus you need to get surgery and change your sex"

[butchazepam]

updated radical feminist library

the radical feminist library, by aggrolesbo/ladielabrys, is great. but it has a lot of repeated and illegible files, and without the proper authors so it gets difficult to search for things. I cleaned it put and then added a lot more books recommended across the internet. Plus very good releases by suny press and routledge.

i separated the trans folder from the rest of the library so you can send it to people who would otherwise be turned off.

If you have any recommendations i would be glad to add it!

spread it far and wide please

[thediaryofarevolutionist]

I feel the pain of every woman who was born into this world so no I can't let it go