autobiographies

Augustdana

My Conversations With Canadians | Lee Maracle

Happy Canada day. Just started this last week and it‘s incredible so far.

10 likes1 stack add

Robotswithpersonality

A Minor Chorus | Billy-Ray Belcourt

pick

Superb. The eminently frustrating part of reading an author with such a way with words is not being able to convey your admiration in as worthy terms! The characters are searingly alive, yet subtle portraits of struggle, their stories, strains making up the minor chorus, are a mix of heartbreaking and hopeful, joyful, clear testaments, analogues of the realities of Indigenous experience in what is called Canada. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? This book offered not just a valuable opportunity to reflect on an own voices perspective, but hit a little harder encountering the relatable aspects of the narrator's life, the loneliness of moving away from all family to Edmonton to pursue higher education, being in your 20s and trying to determine how much the seeking of a relationship has to do with shoring up a fragile internal structure, 7mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/4 scaffolding for a future fully developed person/version of you, struggling through grad school, trying to cling to whatever you convinced yourself would be that certain outcome of jumping through all the scholastic hoops, even as that appears to be less and less probable. Love the structure and, I cannot state this enough, the WRITING. Please go read it, I'll never do it justice.
7mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 ⚠️SA, suicide, police brutality, racism, emotional and physical abuse, discussion of residential schools 7mo

7 likes1 stack add3 comments

Robotswithpersonality

A Minor Chorus | Billy-Ray Belcourt

“...to insist on a form of gender that wasn't a natural disaster but rather a sprawling field where nothing was a coffin someone could fall into.“
DAMN. Again, the way Belcourt uses words leaves me stunned wordless in appreciation.

6 likes

Robotswithpersonality

A Minor Chorus | Billy-Ray Belcourt

Belcourt, man. 👏🏻 He says such relatable things in such an eloquent and original fashion. You recognize it as a thought pulled from your brain, but know you'd never have the words to say it the way he does. 🤌🏻

5 likes1 stack add

Rossiface90

A Stolen Life: A Memoir | Jaycee Dugard

I can‘t wrap my head around what this woman has gone through. I normally don‘t read true crime, or autobiographies in general. However, her story has always resonated with me. #truecrime #jayceedugard #autobiographies

1 stack add

Kenyazero

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons from a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery | Arai Arai Shou

pick

Arai discusses many gender and sexuality topics related to aging that I haven't always thought about. He especially talks about issues he experiences as an intersex person who was assigned female at birth, always felt more masculine, and found out he's intersex and has physical masculine and feminine characteristics that clash with social expectations. #LGBTQ #Intersex #Manga #NonfictionComic #LGBTQIA

Kenyazero This was my last #LGBTQ2023 book bingo prompt of the regular prompts: intersex rep 1y

19 likes1 comment

Kenyazero

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons from a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery | Arai Arai Shou