Cy. Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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She is a much bigger deal than Peter Singer. You get some kind of social currency for talking about Peter Singer. Even tho you prolly only half-read Animal Liberation bc it was assigned to you in college. In 1987.

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@MistressSnowPhD @MaxMcAdams "Sundays are powerfucked" @TriciaLockwood once told me & that is, quite frankly, the truest statement, second only to "The book is bad" re: John Updike's novel COUPLES

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My thinking is informed by the former nun Karen Armstrong and her book The Case for God. I do not have the book in front of me. But Armstrong writes something like this: "When Jewish theologians say that God is 'Nothing,' they do not mean that God is not a thing ...

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Given this bill, I'm thinking of teaching a course in the fall in florida called LITERATURE BY SEX WORKERS. And we start with the book WE TOO: ESSAYS ON SEX WORK AND SURVIVAL @FeministPress Or we start with SEX AT THE MARGINS: MIGRATION, LABOUR MARKETS AND THE RESCUE INDUSTRY https://t.co/7XTBrkMCGj

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But for a concrete example: I'll never forget going to a diversity workshop with Margaret Price, author of the book Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability, and witnessing Margaret give an access statement.

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"I found a note you wrote to me when I graduated. Do you remember, you used to give your students notes to remind them of who they were? Mine said: Be brave. Be willing to lose people for a dream." Shahd Alshammari, Head Above Water @FeministPress forthcoming July 18, 2023

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@pfanderson Oh, I admire ace people very much! Hello to you. I only knew about asexuality from social until I read Angela Chen's iconic book, which you probably know already. But in case anyone reading this wants to learn more Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire https://t.co/BHI47iy7ml

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Thx to friends here & via text, I'm learning add'l books including @sm_kaylor : They have a hybrid poetry collection forthcoming called ASK A SEX WORKER Rachel Rabbit White's PORN CARNIVAL Cassandra Troyan's FREEDOM & PROSTITUTION

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It's like when I was hanging out in the @vigolibrary just minding my business, reading #poetry off the shelf & LO & BEHOLD Sherman Alexie's WHAT I'VE STOLEN, WHAT I'VE EARNED https://t.co/0rgRWvmXhE

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In prior thread, I mentioned #SensitivityReaders. That's not my first time soliciting such readers for my work. The poem "Cathedral by Raymond Carver" is assisted by three Blind readers. Their opinions: 2 Blind readers said: Yes, it's fine 1 Blind reader said: You ought not