Art makes us want to be alive, but it also gives us context for what we’re experiencing right now. It reflects our world back to us. It helps us make sense of things that simply don’t make sense.
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This texts describes intersectionality in a bite-sized, non-accusatory way (page 43); it’s a concept that is usually difficult for folks to get on their first try. It appeals to cis men who have a hard time seeing outside their own experiences of the world.
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Doublethink, or “to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them (32),” sounds curiously like what it takes to be a member of the current Republican Party. I have looked into the faces of people who at once love me and vote for my expulsion from public life.
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What I actually think the reporting points to, and what I think goes largely unsaid, is that the nuclear family is killing us. The fetishization of and strict adherence to two parents providing and taking care of a household enables addiction to fester because it atomizes our communities.
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Understanding the history of white nationalism is important to contextualizing this administration. What I love about Flying Couch specifically is that, though it certainly helps us do that, it’s not a history book—what it does extremely well is bring the narrative into present day using the through-line of familial lineage.
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But after a brief hiatus, Book Club in the Time of Trump is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER!
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One major difference between fictional Kim Jong Il and real-life President Trump: One still has the media to contend with, the other owns the media, too.
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I was unprepared for how this read, this time, affected me. It feels so much closer than it did—and not just in the sense in that I wonder how many Marjane-esque children are out there right now. It feels close in the sense that we feel so unstable right now.
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We are always two steps away from living the material realities of The Handmaid's Tale; these days, it feels like we are one single step, a hair's width away.
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This book excels in the quiet moments after you read a headline and click through, nauseous. You need a moment; you need to remember that you are not alone in your shock, in your plans to act.
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The way we read is a really important piece of our resistance. Consuming media written from a paradigm that isn’t our own increases our empathy, and consuming dense or difficult media is like lifting weights for our brains. We must start directing that reading list to grapple with our current political climate.
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