I finally bought some books I've been meaning to read. I tend to get around to shopping all in one moment after putting it off for too long and then being indecisive.
I did not do the smart thing and go to the lists I'd made (one list being too organized). Instead I did some searching based on topics of interest and luckily landed back on a review of this book I'd been reading about and kept meaning to pick up.
Now that I've just leafed through it for a few minutes, I can see I'm gonna need to push other stuff aside and make some time to really focus on this book. Julia Serano's last book, Whipping Girl, was good, but Excluded is an intervention into movement talk talk talk on a different level. It comes from a particular angle that just strikes me as timely, personally in my own reading, thinking, and blah blah blah, as well as politically at this juncture in sociocultural time, more broadly.
All the books and projects are clashing and demanding, but this fits in with the stuff I've been rereading and trying to put together: some Mathilda Sycamore books, some 70s feminist biographies, some rereads on intersectionality, and this documentary from last year's MSPIFF that keeps sticking in my head about adoption and women being fired from jobs or kicked out of school and sent to homes for unwed mothers pre-Roe.
Gender, revisionism, historical contextuality, and the bigger picture are all on my mind, not really meshing, and just thumbing through this book, it seems to be right on point. I could surely use some help thinking through this cluster of ideas more clearly. Here's hoping...
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