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i loved this book! hope you enjoy it

my favourite book i read this past year was our share of night by mariana enriquez 🌙
it’s quite long though, so if that’s not your vibe i would also recommend her short story collections!

catching up on s3 of hacks how do i always forget how GOOD THIS SHOW IS

the lesbian urge to diy everything and the way i’m subsequently driving myself mad trying to fix my bike by myself

i am! got some gnarly road rash and am just getting checked out to make sure i don’t have a concussion, but my helmet is in much worse shape than i am

man this was an omen. i biked to work and ended up crashing and absolutely eating shit

what a dark fucking day

and also why I actually really enjoyed house of the dragon when I genuinely wasn’t expecting to… I know og GOT fans hated the focus on rhaenyra and alicent but i was loving it

I think this is why I felt dissatisfied by the ending of agatha - so much potential between these two women left completely unexplored

I often think about what Phoebe Waller-Bridge said about Killing Eve (or at least S1): “Every moment in this show exists so that these two women can end up alone in a room together.”

I think this pretty much sums up the type of media I like to see

from the first ep, seemed like their relationship should have been a central focus but marvel has never been good at exploring relationships between characters tbh. always too focused on setting up what’s coming next to spend enough time fully realizing the current story

many, mainly wish they’d focused on agatha/rio. so many questions left - if teen was the one breaking agatha out of the spell, why was rio even there? so we know why agatha hates rio, but why is rio so angry? how was rio able to give agatha “time”? just so much potential to explore

ok i have now finished agatha all along

ok i’m on the agatha all along train… no one told me how gay this show is

hand holding a book. the cover is black and reads “loving corrections”, adrienne maree brown, emergent strategy series. there are yellow pages markers stuck to the front and also sticking out from the pages.

got this in the mail a week ago from friends of AK Press, and have already burned through it! would highly recommend - especially if you struggle with understanding your individual role in relation to movement building

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a new hyperfixation has me in its grasp i fear

i actually don’t teach, most of what i do is “behind the scenes” curriculum development! this happened during training for our summer student staff 😅

asked a group of students today if they had heard of bell hooks before and one of them asked if that’s what they read in “10 things i hate about you”

this restaurant decor… very yellowjackets

ooh “short and weird” has been exactly what I’ve been reading lately. I recently finished Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, which might fit the bill depending on how you define hopeful… also Chlorine by Jade Song if you haven’t read it already, and Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis!

i do frequently refer to him as the “demon creature from hell”

i appreciate your input and will definitely check these out!

some that i’ve enjoyed recently: what we fed to the manticore by talia lakshmi kolluri, the guest by emma cline, you exist too much by zaina arafat, with teeth by kristen arnett, and i who have never known men by jacqueline harpman

please send book recommendations…. i keep starting books and then not finishing them 🥲

rewatching bly manor and tell me why i completely forgot jamie went to prison?????

working at a university sometimes feels like a horrible sick joke being played on me…. so i’m revisiting bell hooks “teaching to transgress” to remind myself that hope exists

more theatre this time with added crying!

theatre ✨

i’ve been sick w covid for the past 2 weeks after avoiding it for 3.5 years and idk how people who get it and still choose to go out and do stuff are alive? i’ve never felt closer to death in my entire life and i have 4 vaccines