I'm really looking forward to the movie! It'll be on Netflix in May! It's such a beautiful story🥹❤️ and I think Sally Fields will be a wonderful Tova!

The pacing... I'm dying. Were all the super editions this horrendously paced? I guess I never noticed it as a kid 💀

If your liberation movement has people on the sidelines or absent altogether, then it's not really liberatory.

This is such a basic concept and it seems so "well, duh," but so many movements and groups, even radical ones, still exclude people for any number of reasons. It reminds me of how there have always been movements for change that exclude people from black men who left black women behind to white feminists who left black women behind to TERFs.

If our goal is simply to rearrange the ladder of authority and privilege, then someone is always at the bottom and no one is truly free. Unless the ladder is wholly done away with, then we will always need another liberation movement. Subscribing even in part to white supremacy and colonialism only serves to neutralize the ideals we claim and the work that we do.

It makes me reflect on who I might be excluding even in small ways which is always good to reflect on. Without continued reflection even on basic ideals, humans tend to lose sight of their values and I don't want that to be me.

”I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

I think that if women, especially white women, took this to heart more, it would go a long way in terms of progress but it’s a shame that we are so divided that that likely won’t happen in my lifetime. I hate living in such an individualistic society.

Paperback or Hardcover? Why?

I love being surprised by a good book behind a bad cover.

One of mine is: The Yearning by Alana Khan-Seriously go look! The cover is just awful but great story.

What's one of your favorite books with a terrible cover?

What are some good books to read before watching their movie adaptations ? Is there any films that lived up to the books ? Any genres welcomed.

We are on Pagebound so I know we all love reading. What are your other passions/hobbies besides reading.

I have two big ones.

I love buying and watching movies. In particular Criterion Editions or small boutique companies like Shout Factory or Arrow. I am particularly fond of older movies especially if the discs have lots of special features for me to watch. This weekend I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity.

Board Games is my other. My wife and I play a lot of board games. Lately we have been playing Elder Scrolls.