DisorderedFancy

Kel (they/she) 🦋 Non-Fiction 👻 Horror

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Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

The Strings of Murder (Frey & McGray, #1)

More Deadly than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror

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The Seaweed Revolution: How Seaweed Has Shaped Our Past and Can Save Our Future

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Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.

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Editions Question

I’m currently reading Samuel Butler’s translation of The Iliad. In the future, I hope to read Emily Wilson’s translation.

If I were to read the latter after I’ve read the former, is there a way to mark them as two different books or, will it be considered a re-read?

Apologies if anybody else has already asked this question. But it’s troubling me since I got Samuel Bulter’s translation first, before Emily Wilson’s came out, and I’m really curious about it.

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.

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The Seaweed Revolution: How Seaweed Has Shaped Our Past and Can Save Our Future

Vincent Doumeizel

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The Seaweed Revolution: How Seaweed Has Shaped Our Past and Can Save Our Future

Vincent Doumeizel

As featured on BBC News and TIME'The potential of seaweed, or marine algae, to transform our world is huge… excellent book' New ScientistThe seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow. Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas saturated with salt to the fresh water of our rivers. Yet we only know how to cultivate a few dozen varieties, at most. Incredibly diverse, seaweed could help to bring back balance in our ecosystems through a wide range of applications. It could allow us to better feed human beings and animals, replace plastic and fertilizers, boost medical innovations, mitigate global warming, repair biodiversity and support economies in coastal communities where fish stocks are declining. Although seaweed has supported our development for millions of years, we have lost our connection with it and focused our efforts purely on land cultivation. Today a fast-growing global population, combined with climate, social and environmental crises, gives us compelling reasons to reconsider this forgotten treasure. ‘This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about our planet's future’ Mark Lynas, journalist and author of Our Final Six Degrees of Climate Emergency ‘An essential read for anyone who is curious about the extraordinary powers of seaweed to change the world’ Alexandra Cousteau, Head of Oceans 2050, and Jacques Cousteau’s granddaughter ‘Seaweeds and algae have an essential role to play in the solutions available to us and Vincent Doumeizel’s The Seaweed Revolution shows us how’ Ambassador Peter Thomson, UNSG’s Special Envoy for the Ocean and former President of the UN General Assembly ‘Seaweed holds the key to help solve many of the crises the world is facing’ Carlos M. Duarte, Executive Director of the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform ‘A powerful read which will enlighten, enthuse and inspire in equal measure’ Ocean Challenge Magazine

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Thrifting Books

For people that thrift, how do you personally go about it?

I get the majority of my books off of Thriftbooks, I know some people have had bad experiences with them but I personally have only ever gotten one book that wasn't the quality described, and when I contacted them they immediately sent me a replacement, so I like them a lot.

I wish I had thrift stores near me that had books I would actually want to read, not much in terms of speculative fiction around here 😭

I've tried looking at Pangobooks, but it kind of intimidates me idk why 😅 I feel like the website never works well for me and feels unintuitive, have any of you tried it and liked it?

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DisorderedFancy

Feb 12, 2026

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I have no idea how to review this book in a way that does true justice to it.

It's a brilliant collection of short stories full of powerful and thought-provoking themes, especially regarding disability, and told with a healthy dose of the mystical and the magical.

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A very well-narrated collection of ghost stories.

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A very well-narrated collection of ghost stories.

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A very well-narrated collection of ghost stories.

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A very well narrated collection of classic ghost stories.

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Queer Screams: A History of LGBTQ+ Survival Through the Lens of American Horror Cinema

Abigail Waldron

The horror genre mirrors the American queer experience, both positively and negatively, overtly and subtextually, from the lumbering, flower-picking monster of Frankenstein (1931) to the fearless intersectional protagonist of the Fear Street Trilogy (2021). This is a historical look at the queer experiences of the horror genre's characters, performers, authors and filmmakers. Offering a fresh look at the horror genre's queer roots, this book documents how diverse stories have provided an outlet for queer people--including transgender and non-binary people--to find catharsis and reclamation. Freaks, dolls, serial killers, telekinetic teenagers and Final Girls all have something to contribute to the historical examination of the American LGBTQ+ experience. Ranging from psychiatry to homophobic fear of HIV/AIDS spread and, most recently, the alienation and self-determination of queer America in the Trump era, this is a look into how terror may repair a shattered queer heart.

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Queer Slashers (Icons of Horror)

Peter Marra

From Norman Bates dressed as "Mother" in Psycho to the rouged cheeks of Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, many slasher icons have borne traces of queer and gender nonconforming behavior since the genre's very beginning. Queer Slashers presents the first book-length study of how and why the slasher subgenre of horror films appeals to queer audiences. In it, Peter Marra constructs a reparative history of the slasher that affirms its queer lineage extending back as early as the 1920s. It also articulates the queer aspects of the slasher formula that forge an unlikely kinship between queer audiences and these retrograde depictions of queer killers. Marra establishes a queer history and function for the slasher, analyzing several key contemporary "queer slashers"–that is, slashers that are made by queer filmmakers–to better understand how queer artists take up the slasher iconography and put it toward modern queer aims. Featuring analysis of films such as John Waters's Serial Mom, Peaches Christ's All About Evil, and Stranger by the Lake, Queer Slashers illuminates the queer meanings of slashers, their foundations, and their future possibilities.

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Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator (Horror Studies)

Heather O. Petrocelli

A new analysis of the connection between the horror genre and the queer community. Queer for Fear is the groundbreaking empirical study of the LGBTQ+ community that not only documents the opinions, habits, and tastes of the horror-loving queer spectator but also evidences how and why queers have a distinctive relationship to the horror genre. This interdisciplinary book makes impactful contributions to the fields of queer, film, horror, trauma, camp, and live cinema studies.

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DisorderedFancy

🏳️‍🌈 Non-Binary/Gender Fluid/Agender Protagonists 🏳️‍⚧️

Hey bookish people!

I'm looking for help finding books with protagonists (or other prominent characters) who are either clearly stated to be and/or who are clearly written to be non-binary, gender fluid, gender queer, agender, or any other beautiful type of gender non-conforming/genderlessness.

Whilst books for all ages are appreciated, I'd especially love some recommendations suitable for 13 to 15 year olds (I think that equates to middle school in the US?).

All genres welcome!

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