How is it going? I like to read books that will help me create less suffering in this world. That can be biographies to find inspiration, fiction to get away from reality for a bit, educational so I can teach others about hard topics. If I follow or engage with you it's because I like what you read or review.
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'It was an odd disease. Its symptoms were like infatuation–palpitations, sleeplessness. Its only certain cure, …
Stoked to read my first Clive Barker book. I've always wanted to read his books but have never had the chance to (so I say)
I give this book 5 stars because of how informational it was. The author makes it very clear at the start how nuanced all of the information is. I went into the book with an open heart and mind. Having an able-body I’m very ignorant about the lives of people with disabilities. I haven’t gone to prison myself so I have no experience nor knowledge on how the prison system works. Going into it ignorantly this way, I found myself understanding what the author was saying. The Virgo in me appreciates the organization the books offers. They are split into chapters each going into different examples supporting the claims of various subjects that mean a lot to me. Most importantly, it connected two major concepts for me. Fighting for disability rights come hand to hand with fighting for a future with no prisons, or surveillance. Concepts I will now be …
I give this book 5 stars because of how informational it was. The author makes it very clear at the start how nuanced all of the information is. I went into the book with an open heart and mind. Having an able-body I’m very ignorant about the lives of people with disabilities. I haven’t gone to prison myself so I have no experience nor knowledge on how the prison system works. Going into it ignorantly this way, I found myself understanding what the author was saying. The Virgo in me appreciates the organization the books offers. They are split into chapters each going into different examples supporting the claims of various subjects that mean a lot to me. Most importantly, it connected two major concepts for me. Fighting for disability rights come hand to hand with fighting for a future with no prisons, or surveillance. Concepts I will now be able to articulate and explain to others. I am very thankful for this book and also thankful for the author who clearly put so much effort into this easy to read guide on how to combat and be a better ally. There’s also a ton of bibliography at the end of every chapter and a glossary at the end of the book that has meaningful definitions of words.
Finished this on the train on my way home. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone. Useful information.
What so often ends up happening is that a disabled parent is poor and CPS gets involved as a 'neglect' case, which ends up with the removal of the child. After the child is removed and placed in foster care, the government has to pay the foster parent to take care of the child. However, many times the only reason that the child was removed from their home in the first place was the original lack of resources. In other words, if the money that foster parents get can be given to biological parents instead, many fewer kids would be living in situations of 'neglect' that make up a vast majority of CPS cases.
— People's Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice by Katie Tastrom
Never thought of it this way. This book is very educational to me.
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (originally published in English, translated by William Weaver) is a 1998 collection of essays by Umberto …
Confessions of a Mask is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent …
This Disability Justice Primer, based in the work of Patty Berne and Sins Invalid, offers concrete suggestions for moving beyond …
Nine days before October 7, 2023, award-winning author Isabella Hammad delivered the Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture at Columbia University. …
A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new …
“I don’t fear death... but they do.”
Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her …
This is the credo and seminal text of the movement which was later characterized as liberation theology. The book burst …
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the …
The Zionist movement, in its embodiment in Palestine as the Jewish Agency, was explicitly designated as the official representative of the country's Jewish population, although before the mass immigration of committed European Zionists the Jewish community comprised mainly either religious of mizrahi Jews who in the main were not Zionist or who even opposed Zionism.
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the …
This has been on my list for years and I've finally found my own copy.
I've been getting 3 books sent to me every months and this month I received this book and it caught my attention so I decided to prioritize this reading.
