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🌼 busy working on capitalism’s downfall 🍃 also reading some good books 🪸 mostly indie presses, translated fic, liberatory nonfic … pls recommend me something! she/her

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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi (Novel) Vol. 1

Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity (Vagabonds)

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

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Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought

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Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall

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Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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My Cat's Guide to Online Dating

Christian Baines

A hook-up gone bad can be purrder.Fresh from a breakup, deeply closeted freshman Zach jumps at the chance to housesit his family home and enjoy a long, horny summer free of both his ex and his religious parents. But when an old enemy turned hot hookup falls to his death, Zach turns to the only true friend he's ever known—his cat, Grace Jones.With the dead man's phone and a knack for texting, she promises Zach help, for a price that will satisfy both their appetites. Does it matter if Grace Jones' powers draw on something far more ancient and sinister than a cell phone?"Get laid, Zachary. Get laid."Each new hook-up brings Zach darkly humorous discoveries about life, love, sex, and his own desires. But Zach knows it's only a matter of time before someone discovers his secret. Can he rely on his feline protector, or is he trapped in a hungry devil's bargain?"The author of Puppet Boy this time brings you a gentle romance full of meet-cutes, coffee dates, and talking cats. Sorry, make that a pitch-black sex comedy, with aggressive outdoor hook-ups, unusual tasty treats, and... well, the talking cat bit is true. My Cat's Guide to Online Dating sits somewhere between Gregg Araki for the Grindr generation and what might happen if Dennis Cooper wrote a romcom. Filthy, surreal and darkly funny, you're in for a ride that's going to leave you hungry for flesh in all sorts of unexpected ways." — Matthew Bright, author of The Library of Lost Things"One of the most unique books I've read - by turns frightening, hilarious, bizarre, and very, very erotic." — Rob Byrnes, author of Straight Lies and The Night We Met"Christian Baines shows a kitty has more than claws, taking readers along hairpin turns into suburban sprawl and angst, dropping them into a deck of adventurous male/male hookups. The outré quieter moments evoke indie films including Gregg Araki's The Living End, Tim Hunter's River's Edge, and Richard Linklater's SubUrbia. Baines renders the reader complicit with the voracious appetite of his hero Zach and his familiar, Grace Jones. And, at the novel's heart, there darkly beats a steadily mounting horror. Eat this one up!"— James K. Moran, author of Fear Itself and Town & Train"One hell of a ride. Dark, disturbing, and that's just the cat." — 'Nathan Burgoine, author of Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks

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Heroine

Gail Scott

It is October, 1980, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis. In a bathtub in a rooming house near the city's heart, Montreal's 'Main, ' a woman is trying to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec's politically turbulent 70's to the threatening bleakness of the 80's. She is negotiating other passages too: from a passionate 'open' love affair with a male left leader, and from deep involvement in far left politics, to a new way of life and living whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it.

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Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.

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Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence

Marlene NourbeSe Philip

Now in its 7th A woman, travelling alone through time, Africa, and unnamed lands, searches for Dr. David Livingstone, celebrated by the West as a "discoverer" of Africa. Looking for Livingstone explodes Western assumptions about the "silence" of indigenous peoples; this is an elegant work which beautifully gives voice to the ancestors to whom it is dedicated.

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Hunger Inc.: Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank

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Sex & Taipei City

Yu-Han Chao

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Palestine Mapped: From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought

Thomas Suárez

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Alanna

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Gosh, we really are complicit in so many systems of harm in this book aren’t we? I truly hate the dispassionate way that Simard is recounting using prisoners for the hard labour of her experiment here. I don’t care if this is commonplace, it is harrowing.

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Hunger Inc.: Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank

Kayleigh Garthwaite

Since 2020, we have seen a huge increase in the demand for charitable food aid, due to multiple political and economic crises. Initially seen as an emergency measure, corporate-backed food aid programs are now entrenched 'solutions' to hunger. But who really benefits from them? Kayleigh Garthwaite travelled across Britain, North America and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms and food justice organisations. She documents the limitations of these programs, and how institutionalising charitable food aid absolves governments of their responsibility to ensure that people have a right to food. As hunger and inequality continue to rise within advanced capitalist countries, this issue is more urgent than ever. Kayleigh Garthwaite proposes radical key policies for governments and explores alternative community-led responses grounded in solidarity, not charity, to end the need for food aid before the indignity of food banks becomes completely normalised.

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Eating Local in the Fraser Valley: A Food-Lover's Guide, Featuring Over 70 Recipes from Farmers, Producers, and Chefs: A Cookbook

Angie Quaale

Discover the culinary richness of British Columbia's Fraser Valley, guided by the farmers, producers, and chefs who live there. Featuring more than 70 locally-inspired recipes, this combination cookbook/guidebook is the perfect companion to one of Canada's most celebrated food and wine regions. Located just east of Vancouver and just north of the United States, the Fraser Valley is a food-lovers' paradise. The region wholeheartedly embraces eating local, celebrating the bounty grown in its own backyard, and supporting the people behind it. Author Angie Quaale is a Fraser Valley local and the owner of gourmet food store Well Seasoned, one of the region's best-known culinary havens. Open this book and take a road trip with her, from Langley to Abbotsford to Chilliwack, with stops at Surrey, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, and Mission in between. Angie will guide you through the Fraser Valley sharing stories and anecdotes along the way, and help you really get to know the people behind the region's food and drink. Not sure where to start? With hand-drawn maps, itineraries for day trips, and a guide to the Fraser Valley's seasons, Eating Local in the Fraser Valley gives you a taste of everything the region has to offer, and much, much more. Even without planning a visit, you can celebrate eating local with the recipes featured in this book--many contributed by the producers themselves. There are more than 70 delicious recipes to choose from--from Slow-Braised Beef Short Ribs, Summer Niçoise Salad, Cheesy Beer Quick Bread, Lobster Mac and Cheese, and Leftover Turkey Tortilla Soup, to Strawberry Shortcake, Bird's Nest Cookies, Truffle-Stuffed Molten Chocolate Cakes, and Bumbleberry Pie--all made with fresh, Fraser Valley ingredients. Fall in love with the farmers, families and foods of the Fraser Valley, and let them put you in touch with your love for local--wherever your local may be.

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For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity―Reflections from Greece (Carenotes: a Notebook of Health Autonomy)

Silvia Federici

The present way of life is a war against our bodies. Nearly everywhere, we are caught in a crumbling health system that furthers our misery and subordination to the structural violence of capital and a state that only intensifies our general precarity. Can we build the capacity and necessary infrastructure to heal ourselves and transform the societal conditions that continue to mentally and physically harm us? Amidst the perpetual crises of capitalism is a careful resistance—organized by medical professionals and community members, students and workers, citizens and migrants. For Health Autonomy: Horizons of Care Beyond Austerity—Reflections from Greece explores the landscape of care spaces coordinated by autonomous collectives in Greece. These projects operate in fierce resistance to austerity, state violence and abandonment, and the neoliberal structure of the healthcare industry that are failing people. For Health Autonomy is a powerful collection of first-hand accounts of those who join together to build new possibilities of care and develop concrete alternatives based on the collective ability of communities and care workers to replace our dependency on police and prisons. ABOUT CARENOTES COLLECTIVE Intensifying inequality and violence have heightened the need to deepen our capacity to resist, offer concrete alternatives, and reproduce ourselves in the process. CareNotes Collective organizes directly on this terrain and seeks to record and amplify the experiences of those struggling for health autonomy in their own communities. Our challenge is to imagine how to expand these practices while defending our communities from the risks of cooption, state violence, and emotional trauma as well as financial domination. Despite the continued violence of the state and private sector, efforts to protect our bodies and environment continue to emerge from those of us left with few other means of sustaining daily life. Yet those who are excluded from the basic right to housing, health, food, safe spaces, emotional wellbeing, and so many other needs, are vilified. Simultaneously, the efforts of care workers committed to our general well-being (educators, healthcare, farm workers, social workers, neighbors, mothers, autonomous networks) are also devalued in an endless restructuring of “crisis.” One strategy is recognizing the centrality of care workers—mothers, the elderly, the pathologized, migrants, LGBTQ+ communities, and autonomous networks—in creating sites of counterpower where we can collectively defend and care for one another while resisting the violence of capitalist life. Such collective care has the potential to liberate space and time, to transform workflows within and beyond traditional care spaces, and to link networks otherwise separated by wealth, race, expertise, and geography.

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Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava

James Stout

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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

Cruel tyrant Taxian-jun killed his way to the throne and now reigns as the first ever emperor of the mortal realm. Yet somehow, he is unsatisfied. Left cold and bereft, abandoned by all he held dear, he takes his own life...only to be reborn anew. Awakening in the body of his younger self--Mo Ran, a disciple of the cultivation sect Sisheng Peak--he discovers the chance to relive his life. This time, he vows to attain the gratification that once eluded him: all who defied him will fall, and never again will they treat him like a dog. His greatest fury is reserved for Chu Wanning, the coldly beautiful and aloofly catlike cultivation teacher who betrayed and thwarted Mo Ran time and again in their last life. Yet as Mo Ran shamelessly pursues his own goals in this life he thought lost, he begins to wonder if there might be more to his teacher--and his own feelings--than he ever realized.

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The Rage Letters

Valérie Bah

An exhausted security guard dreams of home. A sculptor and a pothead have great sex -- in the shadow of wax ex-lovers. A diversity workshop devolves into a familiar nightmare. Throughout this deadpan collection, determined, damned, and triumphant characters appear and reappear, and their links become clear over the course of the fragmented narrative. The author playfully traces the portrait of the intertwined lives of a group of Black queer and trans friends as they navigate the social violence, traumas, and contradictions of their circumstances. Originally published in French in 2021 by les Éditions du remue-ménage, as part of the Martiales collection, the stories in Bah's The Rage Letters -- set in Montreal and beyond -- are sometimes brief, often conversational, and always generative of possibilities through the characters' desire, rage, and acts of rebellion.

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Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Harsha Walia

In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, ruling class, and racist nationalist rule. Ambitious in scope and internationalist in orientation, Border and Rule breaks through American exceptionalist and liberal responses to the migration crisis and cogently maps the lucrative connections between state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism around the world. Illuminating the brutal mechanics of state formation, Walia exposes US border policy as a product of violent territorial expansion, settler-colonialism, enslavement, and gendered racial exclusion. Further, she compellingly details how Fortress Europe and White Australia are using immigration diplomacy and externalized borders to maintain a colonial present, how temporary labor migration in the Arab Gulf states and Canada is central to citizenship regulation and labor control, and far-right nationalism is escalating deadly violence in the US, Israel, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and across Europe, while producing a disaster of statelessness for millions elsewhere. A must-read in these difficult times of war, inequality, climate change, and global health crisis, Border and Rule is a clarion call for revolution. The book includes a foreword from renowned scholar Robin D. G. Kelley and an afterword from acclaimed activist-academic Nick Estes.

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Kanashimi68

Reading fiction for language learning

Hello all 👋 So I have been learning Chinese for a while now (not my native language) and like to read fiction in Chinese to help build my vocabulary. I'm wondering if anyone here also likes to read in a foreign language as a study method. If so, I would love to hear your recommendations of books you've enjoyed (maybe books that are not too challenging), or feel free to share what you're currently reading. Of course not every book is in every language, but a lot of the more popular books seem to get translated into lots of different languages.

I'm currently reading a Goosebumps book (Legend of the Lost Legend/失落的傳說) and just finished volume 3 of the Frieren manga which is very cosy. Also have enjoyed reading BL in Chinese, which is a genre I don't read in English 🤔

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Less Lawn More Life, from Robin Wall Kimmerer's Plant Baby Plant Newsletter

Greetings! In case you haven't signed up for RWK's Plant Baby Plant newsletter I wanted to share this cool initiative she's a part off, and kicking off with a live virtual event on May 7th, 4pm PT/7pm EST. Information on the live event gets sent to you once you sign up for the program. Here's the blurb from the email!

"This spring, join thousands across America restoring nature in their own backyards. The Less Lawn More Life Challenge is fun, easy, and free!

This exciting program guides participants through a step-by-step journey to turn their outdoor space into a thriving habitat, one small action at a time. The challenge kicks off on May 7th.

Over the course of 12 weeks, participants will be guided through a series of fun, expert-led weekly challenges that show up in their inbox. It all kicks off with the Wildr Score, a free digital assessment on the ecological health of their yards. They’ll also be invited to go deeper with industry leaders forging this new wave of conservation via a series of live webinars and Q&As.

Whether you’re new to habitat gardening or a long time rewilder, there is something new to learn for everyone. Already took the challenge last year? Try it again! There are brand new experts, resources, and tools, including the new Wildr App!

Watching birds, butterflies, and hummingbirds return to your yard isn't just joyful for you, it's a gift to your kids, your community, and the living ecosystem we all depend on.

So dig in, sign up, and let nature surprise you! Join the Less Lawn More Life Challenge.

It's all FREE and it starts May 7th. Sign up at lesslawnmorelife.com"

De-lawning my own lawn is something I've been trying to work towards for a long time, but it's so hard with HOA's!! I did finally convince my husband to let me turn our back yard into a clover yard, tho, which we'll do this fall. I'm excited to see what info this challenge will share, and I hope you'll find something useful, too!

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