Chefboibex

Londoner, dog and cat owner. Love reading books that aren’t written by white men, but will pick one up from time to time for the sake of diversity. They/them.

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The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficulties' with her usually sweet-natured eleven-year-old daughter Regan. The child becomes afflicted by spasms, convulsions and unsettling amnesiac episodes; these abruptly worsen into violent fits of appalling foul-mouthed curses, accompanied by physical mutation. Medical science is baffled by Regan's plight and, in her increasing despair, Chris turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan's distorted fetures and speech. On Karras's recommendation, the Church summons Father Merrin, a specialist in the exorcism of demons . . .

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Dyslexia, physical books and accessibility

So I started a physical book last night and I think I’m going to love it but I can already tell some of the formatting is going to make things difficult for my dyslexia. And this has got me thinking. We actually have a pretty good idea of what makes it harder or easier to read with dyslexia formatting wise, there’s been a fair amount of research. We want sans serif font with no flourishes to catch on, bolding it helps, so dose line spacing that’s a little larger than normal (within reason) and slightly larger font size. So it’s totally possible to make physical books at least a little more accessible for dyslexia most publishers just don’t. Though to be fair it should be said there’s not really anything that fills that need better than audio books and you can make a lot of these modifications yourself on e books.

But that out of the way this is my petition for more dyslexia accessible physical books because sometimes you just want a physical copy. I especially want new editions of books with dyslexic MCs like Percy Jackson and the tainted cup which I’d argue maybe should have been printed this way in the first place. I recognize there might not be a ton of demand for this but they could do a small release for the same price ad the normal book and also a larger one with all the special addition illustrations and stuff that everyone would buy anyway to bring in all the money.

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A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Jules Gill-Peterson

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by Susan Stryker Why are trans women the most targeted of LGBT people? Why are they in the crosshairs of a resurgent anti-trans politics around the world? And what is to be done about it by activists, organizers, and allies? A Short History of Transmisogyny is the first book-length study to answer these urgent but long overdue questions. Combining new historical analysis with political and activist accessibility, the book shows why it matters to understand trans misogyny as a specific form of violence with a documentable history. Ironically, it is through attending to the specificity of trans misogyny that trans women are no longer treated as inevitably tragic figures. They emerge instead as embattled but tenacious, locked in a struggle over the meaning and material stakes of gender, labor, race, and freedom. The book travels across bustling port cities like New York, New Orleans, London and Paris, the colonial and military districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i, and the lively travesti communities of Latin America. The book shows how trans femininity has become legible as a fault line of broader global histories, including colonial government, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public space, and the line between the formal and informal economy. This transnational and intersectional approach reinforces that trans women are not isolated social subjects who appear alone; they are in fact central to the modern social world.

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We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

Nemonte Nenquimo

From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, We Will Be Jaguars is an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people. Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She played barefoot in the forest and didn’t walk on pavement, or see a car, until she was a teenager and left to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. But after Nemonte’s ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture, she listened. Nemonte returned to the forest and traditional ways of life and became one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She spearheaded an alliance of Indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest. We Will Be Jaguars is an astonishing memoir by an equally astonishing woman. Nemonte digs into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, and hacking away at racist notions of Indigenous peoples. Ultimately, she reveals a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.

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Trans day of visibility 🥰🏳️‍⚧️

Happy transgender day of visibility! 🎉🏳️‍⚧️

I've had an amazing time with the Trans Rights Readathon. Sadly I'm not going to quite make the goal of 14 books (almost, sort of, 50 pages of finishing the last one of the 14 and did manage to sneak in a bit of another audiobook, sooo...?)

My favourite is the one I've not quite finished: The Church of the Mountain of Flesh by Kyle Wakefield. Wonderful and visceral book. Chefs kiss (I just knew it was going to be incredible)

The one that surprised me the most was Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan. I'd read mixed reviews but it really reeled me in and it's a book that will continue to mean a lot to me!

I'm donating to both The Equality Network and The Outside Project.

Anyone else got any new favourites from the TRR? Or any tales they'd like to tell from it?

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