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Making knots into rainbows.
Ideas: alternative education, neurodiversity, non-violence, cultural studies, collaborative parenting, HAES, anti-racism, permaculture. Interests: memoir, BIPOC fiction, Palestine, California, Ireland, DCP stories, nature writing, creative geography, cookbooks, graphic novels, picture books, poetry, guidebooks. About: White cis woman. Unschooling parent. PhD in English/Feminist Theory, specializing in 19th-20th century California domestic fiction. Volunteer support group moderator at "Unschooling Every Family." Podcaster at "Untangling Oursleves." Healing CPTSD. Bagel maker and haphazard gardener.
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raveller started reading Awesome Autistic Guide for Trans Teens by Yenn Purkis
raveller wants to read We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat
We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat
A stunning work of narrative non-fiction from one of the most powerful young Native American writers at work today—We Survived …
raveller wants to read Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti, Sheila Heti
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary …
raveller finished reading Women in clothes by Sheila Heti
Women in clothes by Sheila Heti, Leanne Shapton, Heidi Julavits
"An exploration of the questions we ask ourselves while getting dressed every day, and the answers from more than six …
raveller wants to read Paper Girl by Beth Macy
Paper Girl by Beth Macy
"There couldn’t be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows closely in the …
raveller wants to read When No Thing Works by Norma Wong
When No Thing Works by Norma Wong
Spiritual and community lessons for embracing collective care, co-creating sustainable worlds, and responsibly meeting uncertain futures—a Zen and Indigenous take …
raveller wants to read A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New …
raveller finished reading What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill
What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill
As we emerge from the past few years of collective upheaval, are we ready to face the complexities of our …
raveller quoted What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill
As we emerge from the past few years of collective upheaval, are we ready to …
"We get remade as we remake the world. When we build together, relationship is created. Our fantasies of perfection or utopia are replaced with something I find more relieving and real, that we are alive and connected, that there is more to learn, that we change until our final moment, that we are both powerless at times and powerful."
— What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill (Page 114)
raveller wants to read The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal
The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal, Marisol Ramirez (Narrator)
There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family’s house when Isla was a child.
…raveller wants to read Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
As Jessamyn packs for Malaysia, it’s not a good time to start hearing a bossy voice in her head. Broke, …
raveller wants to read Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
raveller wants to read High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
raveller wants to read Articulate by Rachel Renee Kolb
Articulate by Rachel Renee Kolb
Rachel Kolb was born profoundly deaf the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, and she grew …