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A.D.’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at A.D.’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society:
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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption:
"Can a 61-year-old feminist (who is white) criticize Rafia Zakaria's book, Against White Feminism, without being summarily dismissed? Well, I'm going to try.
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"It pains me to rate "Against White Feminism" this way. But I'm very frustrated with this book, and somewhat perplexed. Significant portions contain fairly blatant (t)radfem/TERF/SWERF dogwhistles, from the sneering at women who are very sexually acti"
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“His real name is on his ID, for example, but he has kept himself from looking closely at it. There are contacts in his phone that he isn’t interested in calling, texts he does not mean to answer. These are choices, he understands, as meaningful as his choice to remain in the city rather than fleeing on the next train to God knows where. He can be who he was if he wants to be, but only up to a point. Something about the old him is incompatible with the new identity that the city wants him to have. So he has chosen to be Manhattan, whatever that might cost.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“I would find a way to make sure we never had to destroy something of ourselves just to stop other people from taking it. - Rosella”
― Dark and Deepest Red
― Dark and Deepest Red
“Calling something a lie implies that one has the truth in one's mouth and swallows it. What if one can only speak -- only think -- what one suspects another person wants to hear? Then where is the truth? How does one learn to think it?”
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
“I was a cloud stuck inside a person I didn't choose to be.”
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
― A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
