The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays | 
"... when we do see more than one woman...on a list, we think we've reached parity. Studies have shown that when women make up just 30 percent of a group, men and women alike believe there are an equal number of men and women.. At 50 percent women...we believe women outnumber men..." Now I need to go back and check how often I really do read women authors.
bailedThis book is one that I had picked up on vacation in Seattle at Elliot Bay Book Company because it was in the value area and it sounded interesting. I could not get into it at all. I got maybe 100 pages in and just could not continue.
I think it was a little to dry for my tastes as well as the fact that the author spoke a lot about certain things I had no idea about, such as unions for writing for example.
"Stories tell us not only who we are, but who we can be. They paint the narrow behavioral boxes within which we put ourselves and those we know. They can encourage compassion and kindness and acceptance, or violence and intolerance and reprisal. It all bleeds from the page or the screen into the real world. Who deserves forgiveness? I‘d hope we all do."
Can never read just one at a time!
Thanks to my Facebook feed full of posts about CNN showing RBG, she immediately came to mind. Otherwise, by the power of Grayskull, He-Man woulda probably been the first image.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 Worth a read, and accurate and astute in its observations, but this essay collection veers into the repetitive and was a chore to read by the end. I didn‘t learn anything new or gain insight into this world, which admittedly I‘ve already been a part of for a long time. It was good but I think it could‘ve been a lot better.
Is there anything better than this? 😃
Happy Book Lovers Day to all of us! 🎉🎉
This book is exactly what I needed right now!
pickA very timely essay collection about women in SFF, women as writers, women as geeks. Excellent on audio.
Channeling positive #feminist vibes today and wearing my Mt. Nasty t-shirt as I get ready for the sold out K-Flay concert tonight!! 🎉🙌🏼😍💁🏻♀️ Her music is pretty dark, but love it. The beat makes me smile and gets me hyped!! #Kflay #BloodIntheCut #FML #Feminism #MountNasty #NastyWomen #powerfulwomen #RBG #Cincinnati #concerts #music #ThePowerofWords #ThePowerofMusic
#FeministFriday #ReadingResolutions
Haven‘t read this, but when I searched GoodReads for feminist books, this cover stood out!
On to the next one. #audiobooking
The Geek Feminist Revolution has been on my TBR list for quite some time, and it was the first book I spotted when I walked in the door. Very happy with that find, as well as Kindred, Julie & Julia, and the Tom Brokaw books. #bookhaul photo 3 of 4 from The Book Thing of Baltimore.
Despite not really being the target audience of this book (I'm not a gamer or fantasy/sci-if reader), I am thoroughly enjoying it.
Also #Henry got a hair yesterday. #dogsoflitsy #petsoflitsy ❤️🐶❤️
pickThere's a lot of points I can agree with such as having to be the first person, sometimes, to make a change, the need to keep pushing yourself, and my favorite learning when to stop feeding into the hate.
Hurley, makes other good points, some coming from her personal experience, others from her professional life, but all are written in a no nonsense way that there's no wondering where you're at with her.
“I‘d internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn‘t even recognize until my early twenties.”
Sadly this is me too...
Because telling someone to be quiet on the internet to avoid abuse and harassment is like telling women that the best way to avoid being raped is not to go outside, and there are many more of us who won't be silenced, because fuck that.
pickInspiring, honest, and crackling with a relatable exasperation at the many ways the world needs to wake up from its delusions. I'd give every misogynist jerk I know a copy of this book if I could be assured that they'd read it, because Hurley discusses issues with sincerity and wonderful common sense. She also talks about the incredible, exhausting struggle of writing and yet I feel a little bit like I can take on the world now. Good stuff.
panI expected a lot more about this book from the title and the first essays. However, most of her texts feels repetitive and disorganized.
Thanks to my wonderful #litsypenpal for this generous gift! 😘😘😘😘
The book haul from when the husband and I went to Print Bookstore in Portland two weeks ago. Currently reading "The Geek Feminist Revolution" and not sure how I feel about it. It's very angry!
I'm gonna be real: despite signing with a dream agent and getting buckets of praise for my first novel from editors, it still hasn't sold. And I've been revising book two, trying my best to ignore that stupid voice that whispers, "What's the point?" So reading this about persistence in the publishing industry makes me unclench a little. Persistence isn't an endgame, it's the long road.
I just started this book. Have you read it ?
I'm only a few minutes into this one and I'm already a bit skeptical. It's hard for me to understand someone who's complaining about not achieving literary fame at 22, especially when so many women have to struggle, working less desirable jobs for their entire lives. I'll at least give it a full hour of listening before I give up! I have hope!
If you came of age in the 1950s and ‘60s you were promised a future of world peace and flying cars, so I can understand being a little disappointed with what we‘ve ended up with. [...] I came of age reading science fiction after 1980. I was promised a cyberpunk dystopia ruled by corporations, complete with violent reality TV and authoritarian governments, and well—here we are.
If you haven't read this already, I highly recommend you take advantage of the deal. It's a fantastic book.
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so-soStruggling a bit with how I'm supposed to feel about this book versus how I actually feel. Lots of excellent points, but I feel like sometimes arguments are made that undercut women who have made different life choices than the author (people who want to be married or want to have children). I appreciate that women have a steep hill ahead of us in terms of equality, but women can be wives and mothers and feminists too.
Winter cafe life at Gnarabup, drinking coffee and watching the paddle boarders and reading.
pickExcellent read, it is both celebrating pop culture and critical of it. Hurley speaks to representation in media and finding personal identity in a series of essays that is at times very personal and consistently brimming with excellent feminist rage. I'm hoping to dive into Hurley's fiction soon, as her discussions of the writing and publishing process has really peaked my interest. #LGBTQ+authors #junebookbugs
Oh, this essay is killing me.
Kameron Hurley on Joanna Russ and her continuing relevance.
so-soI really liked the idea of this book, but it wasn't quite what I expected. I listened to the audiobook, so several of the essays weren't very distinguishable. Still worth reading, but not my favorite.
pickHurley is an award-winning writer and in this collection of essays, she talks about her experiences with the SFF industry. I didn't always agree with her, and I found a lot of repetition in the essays, but there is much that's thoughtful, insightful and inspiring here. For me, Hurley's most important message is that we should not blindly accept others' assumptions about who we are and what the world should be like.
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I'm a little late on April wrap-up posts. Here's what I read last month 📚
pickI've been listening to the audiobook for weeks now, and I finally finished it through dinner and the dishes. Excellent collection of essays about feminism in the geek world.
#readathon
