Lisa Diedrich Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Lisa Diedrich on X
Tweets slowly on queer feminism, critical medical studies, disability studies, graphic medicine, pedagogy, gender & sports. Author: Indirect Action & Treatments
The Talented
J. R. McGinnityLisa Diedrich"With echoes of the fabulist protagonist at the heart of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” book & movie, Santos has spun an elaborate web of lies & deceptions about his identity & his past..." People have read Highsmith's book, or seen the film, right??? Creepy. https://t.co/AtJklDeCJE
Paperback, 2016
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Bell HooksLisa Diedrichbell hooks: "It is that act of speech, of 'talking back,' that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of our movement from object to subject—the liberated voice."
Paperback, 2014
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Dionne BrandLisa DiedrichFrom Dionne Brand’s OSSUARY XI, on sitting with Jacob Lawrence’s paintings: I cried with him, held his lovely heads, his angular gentle faces as my own, his bodies, driven with intention, attack their catastrophe in gouache [Slowly reading NOMENCLATURE: NEW & COLLECTED POEMS]
Hardcover, 2022
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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
Shayda KafaiLisa DiedrichReading Shayda Kafai’s CRIP KINSHIP: THE DISABILITY JUSTICE & ART ACTIVISM OF SINS INVALID & this sentence got me thinking about the importance of respite: “However temporary Sins Invalid’s crip-centric liberated zones are, they offer respite.”
Paperback, 2021
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On Women
Susan SontagLisa Diedrich.@mervatim on Sontag & the feminist prehistory of queer: "Camp is the hidden nerve running through the essays in “On Women.” Initially conceived of by Sontag as apolitical, it emerges here as the privileged sensibility of a politics of feminist liberation." https://t.co/4WxCAU2wSN
Paperback, 2023
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Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia KobabeLisa DiedrichLove to see it: Judy Blume reading & recommending Maia Kobabe’s brilliant graphic memoir GENDER QUEER. https://t.co/xh2h8hu2JZ
Paperback, 2019
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Beat Writers at Work: The Paris Review
George PlimptonLisa DiedrichSally Rooney: “The novel in English has always had a curious relationship with gender.” The Paris Review - Misreading Ulysses - The Paris Review https://t.co/77aAfIlNuD
Paperback, 1999
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People Who Led to My Plays
Adrienne KennedyLisa DiedrichNow reading ORDINARY NOTES & the force of the words & images & feelings assembled & annotated is truly incredible. One intriguing tidbit & formal clue: Sharpe identifies Adrienne Kennedy’s PEOPLE WHO LED TO MY PLAYS as “one of the books whose form informs this one.”
Paperback, 1996
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Afropessimism
Frank B. WildersonLisa DiedrichReading Frank Wilderson’s AFROPESSIMISM. Wilderson quotes @JYSexton: “You better understand White people’s fantasies because tomorrow they’ll be legislation.” And then Wilderson adds: “That’s what the law is: White fantasies as objective value.”
Paperback, 2021
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Feminist International: How to Change Everything
Veronica GagoLisa Diedrich@nonbinarybooty @IWriteAllDay_ For a brilliant contemporary work, I recommend @veronica_gago’s FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL: HOW TO CHANGE EVERYTHING.
Paperback, 2020
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