Jame (he/they)

just started Rosewater by Tade Thompson and it’s cracking me up. Love the voice
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"If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils."

- P. D. James, The Children of Men

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“A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.”

Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

halfway through The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin.

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the arrowhead - mary oliver
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i'm crying 😭. these stories are so funny

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The Hidden Side Of The Moon - Joanna Russ (1987)

found this in Ōtautahi. the prose ❤️
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The Matriarch - Witi Ihimaera

Green and white text on a black background. Text: "What are your earliest memories of trans books?" Cover photos of each of the books accompany the titles: "Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg; The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall; Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Animorphs by K.A. Applegate; The Transsexual Empire by by Janice Raymond." Link: "forge.tips/read-a-thon." FORGE logo.

Green and white text on a black background. Text: "What books by or about trans people have been meaningful to you?" Cover photos of each of the books accompany the titles: "We Both Laughed in Pleasure: the Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan; Trumpet by Jackie Kay; the Last Time I Wore a Dress by Dylan Scholinski; Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi; Redefining Realness by Janet Mock." Link: "forge.tips/read-a-thon." FORGE logo.

Green and white text on a black background. Text: "What books have you seen support healing in trans communities?" Cover photos of each of the books accompany the titles: "Beyond Survival by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon; Hello Cruel World by Kate Bornstein; Written on the Body by Lexie Bean et al; Exile and Pride by Eli Clare; What it Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill." Link: "forge.tips/read-a-thon." FORGE logo.

Green and white text on a black background. Text: "What’s on your reading list?" Cover photos of each of the books accompany the titles: "Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt; Love in a F*cked-Up World by Dean Spade; American Teenager by Nico Lang; Your Body is Not Your Body from Tenebrous Press; When Monsters Speak by Susan Striker." Link: "forge.tips/read-a-thon." FORGE logo.

For the Trans Rights Readathon, running from March 21-31 and ending on Trans Day of Visibility, FORGE staff shared our favorite picks. Read the full blog post at forge.tips/read-a-thon

Let us know what you're reading!

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end of an era.
mixed feelings to close this 708 page book at 2am.
part 3 held my heart

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If you see this, quote with a game you’ve played multiple times.
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🤣 allg, e hoa, i worked it out!

what an opening haha

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Among the missing- Dan Chaon

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18/20
the sun and her flowers - rupi kaur

do you have in mind one with similar themes /commentary that you consider more poignant? i’d love to know!

i like the writing style, tone, and way of phrasing! it made me curious about how i could play with things when i did creative writing. plus i am a sucker for a grumpy and hōhā or cold narrator

Remains Faetooth · Remnants of the Vessel · Song · 2022

ugh. scratches an itch in my soul

#doomMetal #metal

open.spotify.com/track/0YaR4Z...

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Bartleby, the Scrivener - Herman Melville

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16/20
A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor

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15/20
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

and in bisexual lighting?! where was my invite

i think i enjoy a lot of things where i get what i want out of it & then am okay moving on

but not finishing a book can feel like not opening all chests in a BG3 room; i have a strong urge to open every chest bc i worry i i’ll have missed out on a great block of cheese! so i would rather finish 🥲

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14/20
Ariel - Sylvia Plath

reposting so i stop losing it!

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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C Gibson

“All I ask for is respect. I don’t get it from the State and I don’t get it from men.”

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oh my god. i’m going to an “on repeat” LP party soon. ko tāua tahi tēnā this album would be in my list too ❤️‍🔥

You Hear Yes Destroy Boys, Mannequin Pussy, Scowl · You Hear Yes · Song · 2024

Mannequin Pussy live was absolutely one of my fave gigs ever and I’ve been playing them more since.
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Today: You Hear Yes
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ah good to know ty! i just picked this up two days ago

“The sight of my mother's nakedness jarred me. No body existed less for me: and none existed more. As a child I had loved it dearly; and as an adolescent it had filled me with an uneasy repulsion: all this was perfectly in the ordinary course of things and it seemed reasonable to me that her body should retain its dual nature, that it should be both repugnant and holy - a taboo. But for all that, I was astonished at the violence of my distress.”