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Post from the Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism forum
Reading about what's going on in Sudan and then reading the chapter about fortress Europe and how the EU has bolstered the RSF through their partnership with Omar Hassan Ah-mad al-Bashir makes me so angry.
Reading this chapter makes me so angry and heartbroken. Those of us who live in Europe should probably focus less on The US/ICE and more on Frontex and the shit our own goverments do. Even if it is easier to pretend that interment camps is something that happens over there vauge pointing towards America
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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Since [Redacted] is doing voting right now on the [Redacted] Choice Awards, I thought we could do our own end-of-the-year genre awards!! If you're feeling like a purist you could keep it to books published in 2025, but do whatever your heart desires. Please feel free to invent categories at your discretion.
Here are my award winners among the books I read this year:
2025 Fantasy Romance 🏆 The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig (2025) 🥈 The Ascended by Bree Grenwich & Parker Lennox (2025) 🥉 Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen (2025)
2025 Fantasy 🏆 Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (2025) 🥈 The Strength of the Few by James Islington (2025)
2022 Book Where The Main Character Speaks in Deeply Haunting Rhymes and Riddles 🏆 One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig (2022)
Pre-2025 Science Fiction Book That Became My Entire (!!!) Personality 🏆 Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (2020)
The 2024 Fantasy Book I Adored But Haven't Met A Single Other Person Who Has Read It 🏆 Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan (2024)
The Book That Would've Won This Year's Hugo Award if I Were in Charge 🏆 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (2024)
Cutest Friendship Between Authors as Witnessed on Instagram 🏆 Rachel Gillig & Kalie Cassidy
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Post from the Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism forum
I haven't spendt much time reading about the consequences of NAFTA since uni and I really should have been more angry about this when I was taking classes on the geography of globalisation and economic globalisation.
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Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics
Gabriel Kuhn
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Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life
Kari Marie Norgaard
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No Logo
Naomi Klein
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Dont Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri
Post from the Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism forum
"A proclamation like " Immigrants steal our jobs", and it's rejoinder, "Our economy needs immigrants" treats immigrants as commodities to be traded in capitalist markets and discarded if deemed defective."
Thank you! The we need immigration because of the economy bugs me because 1. you reduce people down to their labour, it's dehumanizing 2. you end up dividing people into groups of good and bad immigrants.
Side note. It's the same thing when people talk about migration, demography and fertility. It reduces people to their ability to give birth to children and the next generation of workers. I understand that it's to push back against far-right talking points, but it still reduces people down to their reproductiveness (is that a word?).
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Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Harsha Walia
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I didn't have very high expectations for this book and that's probably a good thing. It's entertaining and the idea is pretty good, but it's not very well written. The frustraiting thing is that there is the possibilty of a good horror romance in there. It's pretty good when it almost leans into the horror stuff and the pacing is pretty ok.
It's a 2.75 star, but that's not possible here, so 2.5 star it is.