I Want You To Remember:

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Fugitive Pieces," originally published in 1996

what feminist texts do you recommend?

If it’s self-help books or manifestos on how to live more feministly or organize against patriarchy, I don’t really have anything to recommend. I'm behind on that because the ones that I had read did not speak to me. I'm not the type of woman those authors like.

But if it’s history about women or meditations on what life is like for women in certain societies, I do have some recommendations. All the books I recommended, I’ve read them before.

By category in alphabetical order:

HISTORY

Beyond the Veil : Male-Female Dynamics in Muslim Societies by Fatima Mernissi

Educating Muslim Women : The West African Legacy of Nana Asma'u, 1793-1864 by Beverly Mack and Jean Boyd

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena

Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom : The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699 by Sher Banu Khan

The Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatima Mernissi

The Kurdish Women's Movement : History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie Jones-Rogers.

Women and Gender in Islam : Historical Root of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed

MEDITATIONS

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange (note: I'd rather you watch the play first. It's available on YouTube)

Hijab Butch Blues by lamya h

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Zora Neale Hurston

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawaal El-Sadaawi

Playboy by Constance Debre

Selected Writings by Clara Zetkin

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sula by Toni Morrison

The Answer / La Respuesta (expanded edition) by Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali

Reblog daily for health and prosperity

Giorgio Barrera, Through the Window. 

What are we watching? What do we see? And what remains inaccessible, hidden between the folds of the image and beyond the frame? 

Dear usamericans, can I interest you in an online copy of Civil Disobedience and The Theory of the Leisure Class ? As someone from a country where protesting is second-nature, I feel inclined to share these essays. They may be old, but they hold up surprisingly well in today's capitalistic hellscape. So read up! Knowledge is power.

Guys, where do you get your book recs? And do you have recs? (Of books or of bootuber/ig/substack/podcast/...)

Short Story Recommendations

These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions

Crime

Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie

Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl

Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

Horror

The Landlady - Roald Dahl

A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke

The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin

The Veldt - Ray Bradbury

The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick

The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft

The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

Sad

The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor

A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver

Cathedral - Raymond Carver

The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Chef - Andy Weir

The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko

The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert

Sci-Fi

Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke

The Star - Arthur C Clarke

Reunion - Arthur C Clarke

The Commuter - Philip K Dick

Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick

To Serve Man - Damon Knight

Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman

What the Fuck?! 

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme

Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto

The Box Social - James Reaney

He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi

The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)

Other

Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer

A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates

The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton

The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar

The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez

On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges

A reminder to the "the American government wouldn't..." crowd. They have. They have made their own internment camps before. They have rounded up innocent citizens and immigrants before. The victims of which are still alive to this day and trying to share their stories with the world, they have been trying to warn us for a long time. George Takei (as seen above) is a famous example of this. He has written about his experiences time and time again, even publishing a book talking about his time in these camps. He may be famous now, but at the time he was just another kid forced from his home. To this day he still firmly dedicates himself to trying to educate and inform people, trying to spread awareness with his platform. The American Government can and will do terrible things. Do not let anyone convince you otherwise.

Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.