#Elissa Washuta

[hungryfictions]

Elissa Washuta, My Body is a Book of Rules

#elissa washuta #my body is a book of rules #quotes

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Apocalypse Logic, Elissa Washuta//House of the Dragon (2022-)

#house of the dragon #hotd #alicent hightower #olivia cooke #emily carey #web weaving #quotes #words #poetry #queen alicent hightower #mine #got #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #game of thrones #apocalypse logic #elissa washuta #greens #team green #otto hightower #aegon targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenicent #lovers to enemies #angst #survival #trauma

[augment-techs]

#boom! comics power rangers #web weaving #theme: diminished anxiety through friendship #earthship architecture #matthew cook #billy cranston #@baseball-boyfriends #unknown text source #@bepeu #@omggjackiee #hazbin hotel #@stickygirl69 #@S∆TURN #elissa washuta #mighty morphin power rangers #go go power rangers

[ockymilk]

The internet says I will not release my karma across lifetimes until I learn my lesson. I am ready for this to be my last life. I do not want to come back. I'm bound by a pattern, like a ghost that haunts until - what? Or a tarot card that keeps appearing until I understand. A transit of one planet to another that opens a wound every time it circles around. Over and over, another boyfriend hurts me and leaves me.

Elissa Washuta, White Magic

#elissa washuta #white magic

[themysteriousvanishingofelectra]

“We crystal witches of the internet think what we’re about is not New Age, but it surrounds us like water surrounds a fish. I’m learning from Wikipedia that it’s exactly what we’re about, only we get our horoscopes as tweets and find our psychics on Yelp. We want the divine. We want to be healed and we want to fix. Most of all, we seek what we can’t locate in the vast universe of the internet: reassurance that it will be okay.

New Age eats the ancient, trying to digest old systems. It’s a collage of angels, magic numbers, incantations, and stolen beliefs. A collage is made not just of what’s there, but also of the absence of the material from which the pieces are cut. I got good at working gaps in essays, but not in life. Instead of fearing silence and disrupting stillness, I want to be ready to set down my cards, close the JPEG of my natal chart, and ask the quiet to tell me what this life should be.”

Elissa Washuta

White Magic : Essays (Tin House, Portland, Oregon : First US Edition 2021)

#twasbrillig #white magic #elissa washuta #new age #witchy #witchblr #witchcraft #astrology #crystals #wicca #pagan #paganism #neopagan #neopaganism #magic #indigenous voices #cultural appropriation #witch #horoscope #divination #divine feminine #tarot #tarot deck #tarot witch #angels #numerology #writing #writers

[codenamebooks]

September TBR

This year, I told myself that I wouldn't put more than three books on my TBR at a time. I haven't been able to achieve much this year so I don't want to try to push myself. I'm a bit anal retentive and have a specific order to help me move through them, but here are my three books that I hope and plan to read in September:

Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo | Goodreads

I've actually just finished this book but at the very beginning of the month I was about 85% of the way through. I enjoyed the magic system, but was kind of confused by them. I was the largest fan of most of the characters but I didn't hate them by any means. I'll be writing a full review so watch out for that soon.

White Magic by Elissa Washuta | Goodreads

I have many reasons to read this book! One, I need to read so much more nonfiction if I plan to continue to write it. Two, I want to learn under this professor at my university. Three, some people I know said that it was amazing even though it covers very hard topics. I think I can learn and love these essays a lot.

Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) | Goodreads

If I'm lucky, I'll continue to be able to this beautiful series in the month of September. I will not be able to finish the series by the end of the year unless I kick it into high gear, but I won't slow down (more than normal). We have so many things to look forward to, so I'm filled with dread and excitement equally.

#september tbr #shadow and bone #the shadow and bone trilogy #leigh bardugo #goodreads #white magic #elissa washuta #queen of shadows #sarah j maas #throne of glass series

[morgan--reads]

White Magic - Elissa Washuta

Summary: A series of essays where Washuta explores her relationship with men, alcoholism, the land she lives on, and her identity as a Native woman using the Oregon Trail video game, Twin Peaks, Fleetwood Mac, and magic. 

Quote: “Colonization is not a metaphor for my body and I do not present what has happened to my body as a metaphor for colonization. But the violence done to my body was facilitated by colonization: dominance is central to the American creation story. By telling stories over and over, we give them life. By enacting narratives over and over, we give them limbs. A white man dominates a Native woman and keeps his world in order.”

My rating: 3.0/5.0  Goodreads: 3.79/5.0

Review: The essays touch on a variety of interesting and often heartbreaking themes but one breakup haunts most of these essays in a way that didn’t work for me. Much like hearing about other people’s dreams, hearing about other people’s exes can be a tedious experience. It’s a shame, because many of the essays have creatively weird slants to them that are really engaging—the essay using a claymation about the devil and Mark Twain as a framing device for instance or the essay where Washuta argues her life has parallels with Twin Peaks—but she seems compelled to return to the banalities of breaking up and moving on from what seems to have been a regular relationship. She’s a strong writer, so if the topic interests you, I recommend these essays. 

Content note: abuse, alcoholism, sexual assault and rape.

#white magic #elissa washuta #book review #essays #memoir

[lionlimb]

I'm reading a memoir rn which is in part about being in college and having bipolar. I'm liking it fine, actually it is a bit reminiscent of reading Tumblr posts, but a part of me is thinking, if I read this 6 years ago, when I was in college, and had a mood disorder, I would have reacted much more strongly. With more pain and personal identification. But now all I feel is a mild interest, and a bittersweet awareness of that past self I used to be. It was this old self who marked the book as to-read, because she cared about it. Nowadays? Uhh. I'm sympathetic, but it's not my personal struggle anymore, so I kind of don't care...

#Need to find some femcel memoirs mayhaps #To appeal to my current struggles. Wait— #It's my body is a book of rules by Elissa washuta for the record #now reading

[albertbreasker]

MY GUILT IS AN OCEAN FOR ME TO DROWN IN.

Slaughterhouse, Yves Olade / Fallout 4 / Apocalypse Logic, Elissa Washuta / Little Red Riding Hood Addresses the Next Wolf, Brenna Twohy / The Song of Achilles,  Madeline Miller / Altered Carbon (2018) / Mercy, Yves Olade / Unknown / Crime and Punishment,  Fyodor Dostoevsky / Everything Everything, Nicola Yoon

#web weaving #poetry #web weave #poetry compilation #i finally finished this its been sitting in my drafts forever #feel free to tag aany and all ur blorbos i will be intently reading the tags #long post #mine #v for violence #x #thanks consistantly-changing for the alt text ! #im doing the big reveal #this was actually made for my oc cassius #im glad everyone enjoyed it #hes a murderer and hot

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

Apocalypse Logic, Elissa Washuta

#quotes #survival #iklies vibes #naicore

[gatheringbones]

[“Those who benefit from the inequities of our society resist the stories of people whose suffering is in large part owed to the structures of our society. They do not want to have to change. We see this in a thousand forms of white fragility, male fragility, and transphobic and homophobic tantrums protesting the ground gained by trans and queer storytellers.

The resistance to memoirs about trauma is in many respects a reiteration of the classic role of perpetrator: to deny, discredit, and dismiss victims in order to avoid being implicated or losing power. Anyone who writes the story of their individual trauma, and especially those of identities that have been historically oppressed and abused, is subject to the retraumatization by ongoing perpetrators: the patriarchal, white supremacist, colonizing nation(s) in which they must live and learn to heal. As Elissa Washuta, a Native essayist, writes: “I am subject to the wants of a country conjured up by invaders who raped, maimed, and killed until they could settle their dream like a film over the land that held the treasure they wanted. Every day, the universe reminds me that, yes, I am safe now, but I am in America. I could be gouged out again.”

Social justice has always depended upon the testimonies of the oppressed. We cannot fully acknowledge the harms of patriarchy without a subsequent women’s liberation movement, just as we cannot fully acknowledge the harms and continued existence of white supremacist structures in our society without an anti-racist civil rights movement. We cannot fully acknowledge the harms committed against LGBTQI people without a queer liberation movement. We cannot fully acknowledge the violences perpetrated against trans women of color without a movement that affirms the humanity of and demands civil rights for these women. It is not enough for the people of such identities to cast off shame and demand justice. The listeners must join them, and for that, we need to hear their stories. I’ll say it again, because it bears repeating: the resistance to memoirs about trauma is always in part—and often nothing but—a resistance to movements for social justice.“]

melissa febos, from body work: the radical power of personal narrative, 2022

#melissa febos #brainspace #currently reading

[rockislandadultreads]

Native American Heritage Month: More Nonfiction Recommendations

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by checking out one of these nonfiction recommendations from your local library!  

Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, this memoir reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Weaving together the voices that shaped her, Harjo listens to stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, the teachings of a changing earth, and the poets who paved her way.

The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III

Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who - with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership - fought for his people’s land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating biography, Joseph Marshall, himself a Lakota Indian, creates a vibrant portrait of the man, his times, and his legacy.

Life of Black Hawk by Black Hawk

Westward expansion of the American frontier was not without its attendant tragedies - many of which involved injustices committed against Native Americans. One such tragedy was the Black Hawk War, which took place when the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by tribal chieftain Black Hawk, resisted the establishment of white settlements in Indian territory in western Illinois. This volume is the autobiography of Black Hawk, in which he wished to disclose "the causes that had impelled him to act... and the principles by which he was governed."

White Magic by Elissa Washuta

Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, “starter witch kits” of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning. In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

#Native American Heritage Month #Native American Authors #native american history #nonfiction #library books #reading recs #reading recommendations #book recs #book recommendations #to read #TBR pile #tbr #booklr #book tumblr

[augment-techs]

If my survival is betrayal, make no mistake, I will betray.

Sentry Skull in address towards Trini in defending what he does in the palace to save the Coinless, regardless of her disgust.

#source: Elissa Washuta #incorrect power rangers quotes #world of the coinless #boom! comics power rangers #Red Sentry Skull #Coinless Trini #MMPR

[kattra]

What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF FEBRUARY The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (SS) Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger ** The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary  Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin  The Backwater Sermons by Jay Hulme (P)  Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (SS)  Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop  Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid  Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina White Magic by Elissa Washuta (NF)  Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert 

Graphic Novels: Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke  Dengeki Daisy Vol.9-12 by Kyousuke Motomi    Fence Vol.5 (Rise) by C.S. Pacat & Johanna the Mad  A Map to the Sun by Sloane Leong **

(32 books read / 125 books goal)

currently reading:  The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien  Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (P)  Still Life by Louise Penny God Isn’t Here Today by Francine Cunningham (SS)  I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (NF) Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop 

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook 

TBR: Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce  Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi  Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey  In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (NF)  Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke (GN)

WHAT ARE YOU READING? :D

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#book #bookworm #reading #TBR #what are you reading #my books #2023 #february #march #reading year 2023 #books of 2023 #novels #graphic novels #fiction #non fiction #poetry #fantasy #manga #YA #contemporary fiction #historical fiction #mystery

[greywolfheirs]

#make decisions for me :) #polls #booklr #audiobooks #library books

[protoslacker]

The narratives we concoct and the causal relationships we want to impose where meaning is absent or difficult to find—I love that stuff. I’m finding myself writing about narrative again, and I can now see the role of narrative in my first book. I hadn’t been thinking of My Body Is a Book of Rules as a book about narrative, really, but it absolutely is, in that it’s about how I articulated the story of my life to myself, and how it was determined for me in some areas. I used to think the story I was going to tell over and over for the length of my career was about trauma, but now I think that story I’ll never give up is simply about narrative itself. My old conception of my relationship with narrative no longer serves me: I thought I was anti-narrative, but that’s simply not true; I just had language to describe my aesthetic that made it seem that way.

Elissa Washuta in interview with Greg Mania in The Rumpus. FINDING MEANING AT THE EDGE OF REALITY: TALKING WITH ELISSA WASHUTA

#story #composing a life #narrative