crybabybea

i'm Leah (or bea) :) she/her; 26yo librarian from the US 🩷 aiming to never stop learning. chronic over-analyzer. big fan of crying 🎇🌻🌞🌊

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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

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Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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Feminism Without Exception

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Faebound (Faebound, #1)

Saara El-Arifi

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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

This pioneering bestseller has become a rallying cry for a movement of radical self-love--the second edition shows readers how to grow the movement from self to systems and includes empowering stories from Sonya Renee Taylor's travels around the world. In a revolutionary departure from the capitalist-driven self-help and body-positivity movement, poet, author, and humanitarian Sonya Renee Taylor forges an inextricable bond between radical self-love and social justice. The first step is recognizing that we have all been indoctrinated into a system of body shame that profits off our self-hatred. This second edition includes stories from Taylor's travels around the world combating body terrorism and shines a light on the path toward liberation guided by love. In a brand new chapter, Taylor confronts each of the "isms" and phobias, especially racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia, showing how radical self-love manifests in each space. Radical self-love not only dismantles shame and self-loathing in us but has the power to dismantle global systems of injustice--because when we make peace with our bodies, only then do we have the capacity to truly make peace with the bodies of others. Readers can also engage more deeply using the accompanying workbook, which builds on the ten tools and radical reflection and unapologetic inquiry exercises woven throughout the book.

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Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History

Linford D. Fisher

Indigenous enslavement was a colossal phenomenon of almost unimaginable consequences that ensnared nearly 600,000 Native Americans in North America. In a saga that predates 1619, this double-stealing of Indigenous people and their lands upends virtually every known narrative of American history. Captured Natives, often deliberately misidentified as Black slaves, were used not only on southern plantations, but on small northern farms, and were routinely shipped overseas. While the American Revolution pealed the bells of freedom for colonists, it paved a larcenous trail of westward expansion that decimated tribes and plundered Indigenous lands. Even after Congress outlawed Native slavery in 1867, Americans forced Indigenous children into boarding schools and white homes, where they labored under forced assimilation. This practice was not outlawed until the latter twentieth century, when Indian nations finally secured increasing rights and self-determination. The most comprehensive work of its kind, Stealing America presents a five-century genocidal history, more commonly known as the "American dream."

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Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History

Linford D. Fisher

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The Bone Shard War (The Drowning Empire, #3)

Andrea Stewart

The Bone Shard War is the epic finale to the unmissable, action-packed and magic-laced Drowning Empire series. Lin Sukai has won her first victory as Emperor, but the future of the Phoenix Empire hangs in the balance - and Lin is dangerously short of allies. As her own governors plot treason, the Shardless Few renew hostilities. Worse still, Lin discovers her old nemesis Nisong has joined forces with the rogue Alanga, Ragan. Both seek her death. Yet hopes lies in history. Legend tells of seven mythic swords, forged in centuries past. If Lin can find them before her enemies, she may yet be able to turn the tide. If she fails, the Sukai dynasty - and the entire empire - will fall.

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The Bone Shard War (The Drowning Empire, #3)

Andrea Stewart

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Mad Sisters of Esi

Tashan Mehta

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catsano

Thoughts on "Intro Text"

Hey y'all - I am perceiving a trend and I wonder if it is my own selection bias/imagination or maybe there's something to it, figured this would be a good place to ask. I feel that I've seen quite a few books in this quest/genre referred to as 'introductory texts' or 'launching pad' or 'accessible' or 'great place to start.' Has anyone else noticed this, and if so do you think those descriptors are generally accurate? Also please note that I have definitely used this vocab in posts/reviews and I am not suggesting it's a bad thing to say.

I may actually be reading a lot of introductory texts and/or my perception is inflating the frequency of this categorization. I just finished Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, and there was a section about forgiving ourselves for not having read every book. It got me thinking and I would love to hear your thoughts as well:

is this common language in non-fiction reviews across genres? I am a recent nonfic convert so my experience is limited.
is this an instinct we have as readers to try and get more engagement with these books, like 'we promise it's readable'?
are these 'intro if you are a scholar on the topic' or truly 'intro for your average reader,' and if so what are some not-introductory books (from this quest or otherwise) that you would suggest?
is there an element of setting the bar unreasonably high for ourselves (and/or the authors) to dive really deep? my perception of 'intro/accessible' categorization includes a twinge of needing to get beyond that level to be legit, whatever that means.

xoxo, catsano

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Sonya Renee Taylor

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Mind of My Mind (Patternmaster, #2)

Octavia E. Butler

For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken -- and rule -- her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people.

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Sleep Donation

Karen Russell

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an imaginative and haunting novella about an insomnia epidemic set in the near future.A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamers to donate sleep to an insomniac. Under the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers the Corps' reach has grown, with outposts in every major US city. Trish Edgewater, whose sister Dori was one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia, has spent the past seven years recruiting for the Corps. But Trish’s faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter when she is confronted by “Baby A,” the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious "Donor Y."Sleep Donation explores a world facing the end of sleep as we know it, where “Night Worlds” offer black market remedies to the desperate and sleep deprived, and where even the act of making a gift is not as simple as it appears.

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Mind of My Mind (Patternmaster, #2)

Octavia E. Butler

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Sleep Donation

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CaitlinByHerShelf

Question about the quest!

Hellooo! 💜

I have been looking over this side quest and have had some feelings come up, and I was wondering if I was alone.

I noticed that all of the books included in this romance quest appear to be hetero-presenting couples, and there’s a distinct lack of queer MCs that Pagebound normally has. So I was wondering, how were these specific books chosen? I’m not sure if this is different when it’s a quest that is publisher specific! I really enjoy seeing a diverse set of romantic partners when reading romance, and I’m struggling to relate to a quest where I can’t see myself reflected in any of the books.

Not sure if anyone even has this answer, but it’s been on my mind. Thanks in advance, Boundlings! 🩷✨

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When We Lost Our Heads

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