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It‘s taken me months to finish this short book. hooks‘ writing can be dense & takes some thought. These are essays about race, finding her home & place in the world, & memories of her family. I really liked the ones about quilt making & what that meant to the elders. She also writes about my favorite author, Wendell Berry, & includes a convo they had about how racism and the environment connect & his book, The Hidden Wound. Made me wish I could 👇

For day 14 of the #hauntedshelf book cover hunt we've got one of my very favourite grey books I've read recently! And it's a spooky one too.

#skeletoncrew

Something something the Greeks were always doing shitty gender things.

I think the thing that is most interesting but also most upsetting about this book is that it was written in 1995 but is still so relevant. Obviously hooks is brilliant, but it means that the state of discourse around art, race, and gender has really not progressed much in the past 30 years.

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If power were never anything but repressive, if it never did anything but to say no, do you really think one would be brought to obey it? What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn‘t only weigh on us as a force that says no; it also traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourses.

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them by Robert A. Orsi
📖 The Hiding Places of God: A Personal Journey into the World of Religious Visions, Holy Objects, and Miracles by John Cornwell

#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead

What we are calling the Anthropocene might be more accurately called the Capitaloscene- what we are really witnessing are the material conditions of the last five hundred years of capitalism.

Sometimes literally the only place you can find a book is a shitty libgen pdf and that's okay

34 pages in, I determined that this isn't a book I can read without underlining. Fortunately it was available affordable used, so it's been ordered and this copy will go back to the library. I'll continue reading the history of libraries next, and hopefully be able to pick up Curye on Inglysch after that.