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haveyoureadthisbook-poll · 1 day

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#orientalism #edward w. said #nonfiction #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

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monstrousdesirestudy · 2 days

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I don’t know why I didn’t think of this but it’s so good. New book title from @htmelle: “The Monster Fucker Manifesto”; what do we think gang? I think it’s hilarious especially as a communist x monster fucker 🤣

#new book title #monster lover #monster fucker #terato #monster fudger #monster kink #terat0philliac #monstrousdesire #monster #monstrousdesirestudy #exophelia #what do we think gang?#nonfiction writing #nonfiction #writers on tumblr #monster fucker manifesto goes so hard

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atavist · 10 months

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His mother got duped by a man who claimed to love her—so he headed to Nigeria to find the con artist who broke her heart. The Romance Scammer on My Sofa. The latest incredible true story from The Atavist.

#journalism #scammers #true story #nonfiction #longreads

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mikedawwwson · 7 months

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What Are You Going Through

Published in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, 4/2/23

#sigrid nunez #fiction #writing #novels #nonfiction #empathy

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johannestevans · 10 months

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I can’t tell you how often I am asked this question by any medical professional. I mention that I’m on testosterone, have been on T for years. This script goes forward even with my endocrinologists.

DOCTOR, with a pinched look on their face: And what about your fertility? ME: What about my fertility? DOCTOR: Are you aware that testosterone can make you infertile? ME: I am, it’s one of the many benefits. I still want a hysterectomy though. DOCTOR, with an even more pinched look on their face: Have you thought about measures to preserve your fertility? ME: No, I do not want to be fertile, I do not want to ever be pregnant, and I do not want children. Next question.

The next question is inevitably another question about my fertility, about preserving it, about if I plan to adopt instead — the idea that I don’t want children at all won’t be entertained.

I’ve always hated the way that my desire to one day be pregnant and to have children is treated as an assumed fact of my being — as a child and a teenager, I was incredibly tokophobic, and had nightmares, felt very nauseous, about the matter-of-fact and blustering way that adults around me would regularly tell me that I had no choice in the matter, and that one day I would be pregnant, and it was just a fact of life I had to accept.

The messaging around pregnancy was effectively that it was something I had no choice in, no ability to consent to — I would be made pregnant by the passage of time alone, and I would be forced to carry that pregnancy to term and then parent the children I didn’t want, because that’s just life.

As I grew older, I learned that these are lies.

I don’t have to become pregnant. It’s not a fact of life that will happen to me whether I like it or not. I am not beholden to a mysterious biological clock that will render me mindless and unable to resist.

Read more on Medium.

#ftm #transgender #trans man #lgbtq #nonfiction #musings

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wubsbian · 3 months

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#sars cov 2 #covid isnt over #pandemic isnt over #wear a mask #wear a fucking mask #alt text covid #world issues #disability rights #disability justice #important #nonfiction

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brandyschillace · 5 months

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THE BOOK IS A GO!

Transgender History out 2025

Good morning—GOOD NEWS! Going on 2 years ago, I published my article in Scientific American about #transgenger + #hormone history 🗃️🧪🏳️‍⚧️. I finished the book in Oct, and my editor just wrote to say she loves it and it will publish next winter!

This book almost didn’t happen. It was so hard to write. It *hurt* to write. Watching the news and reading history, it felt the same—rise of fascism and attacks on minorities and LGBTQ. But it’s done, it is written.

THE INTERMEDIARIES tells the story of that science—itself often strange and remarkable—as well as the man, his band of revolutionaries, and the Institute for Sexual Science, both center of the homosexual and trans community and base of operations for the first LGBTQ rights movement of the 20th century.

Sexual and gender nonconformists, what Hirschfeld called the intermediaries, had a right to live, a right to thrive. They also had a right to joy. Science would lead the way, but this history unfolds as an interwar thriller—patients and physicians risking their lives to be seen and heard even as Hitler began his rise to power. They faced abuse, blackmail, and political machinations; they responded with secret publishing campaigns, leaflet drops, pro-homosexual propaganda, and alignments with rebel factions of Berlin’s literati. It’s a story about pioneers. And about hope.

And it all started here:

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lets-get-lit · 2 months

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

#quotes #books #literature #lit #classics #academia #light academia #dark academia #chaotic academia #book #book quotes #quotation #Maya Angelou #Memoir #Nonfiction #Biography #Autobiography #I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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a-typical · 6 months

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— On Palestine: Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé (2015)

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alienejj · 2 months

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I took this picture myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.

"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations"

— Vladimir Nabokov.

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longreads · 2 months

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Fresh Meat

"The resistance to women in butchery goes further: we associate butchery with blood and gore, and dealing with blood and gore is not a place for a woman.”

Regular #longreads food writer Olivia Potts is back! Explore how women are breaking into the male-dominated world of butchery in our new feature.

Blood, craft, and sexism. Read it here.

#feminism #butcher #butcher shop #apprentice #meat #women #writing #essay #nonfiction

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headspace-hotel · 6 months

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I've come across like 3 or 4 Centrist-Guy-Saying-Stuff books now that have a chapter trying to criticize how "the Left" flattens history down into a stereotype where everything Europeans did is UNIQUELY EVIL!!! and they all have the same points

The Ottomans and the Romans had slavery and African nations captured slaves from each other so it's hypocritical to focus on chattel slavery in the USA being particularly evil

Columbus is being "villainized" and the colonization of the Americas was inevitable to happen that way, that's just what happens when a stronger country meets a weaker one

Native Americans waged war on each other/did X gruesome or shocking thing so they're Not As Innocent As The Left Would Have You Believe

and it's like. Buddy. The point isn't to prove that Europeans have a uniquely evil culture or that X thing they did has never happened before in another culture. The reason European nations' actions are so focused on, is that they directly caused a ton of problems we are Currently Dealing With Right Now.

Like yeah, Roman slavery was fucking evil and dehumanizing and full of sexual and physical abuse, but it didn't give us the instructions for who should be dehumanized and demeaned that our society is STILL FOLLOWING

#history #-_-#racism #books #nonfiction

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smokefalls · 2 months

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What does “thinking of you” mean? It means: forgetting “you” (without forgetting, life itself is not possible) and frequently waking out of that forgetfulness.

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (translated by Richard Howard)

#Roland Barthes #A Lover's Discourse #quote #nonfiction #philosophy #2024 reads

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atavist · 9 months

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His mother got duped by a man who claimed to love her—so he headed to Nigeria to find the con artist who broke her heart. A rare look inside the world of the so-called Yahoo Boys. The Romance Scammer on My Sofa. The latest incredible true story from The Atavist.

#journalism #longreads #scammers #true story #nonfiction

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belle-keys · 8 months

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"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

- Orientalism by Edward Said

#orientalism #orientalist #edward said #book quotes #nonfiction #colonization #imperialism #academia #racism #free palestine #anti zionisim #decolonisation

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incognitopolls · 3 months

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #reading #bookblr #books #nonfiction #mental voice #polls about interests #polls about brains #submitted nov 7

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