Soft Science | 
#schoolsubjectintitle with that cover art how could I not want to read it!?!?!? #bookbinge @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Recent anti-Asian rhetoric from public officials regarding the current pandemic has contributed to a steep increase in anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination. In response to this, I wanted to highlight 10 LGBTQ+ AAPI authors you should check out! (I'm only posting 3 here, the rest on Instagram as PopCultureLiterary)! #LGBTQ #AAPI
pickFranny Choi‘s Soft Science is a stunning speculative work. Each section of poems begins with a response to the Turing Test, Alan Turing‘s famous test of artificial intelligence. While Choi may be answering these questions, Soft Science is truly an interrogation of our definition of human and inhuman and the use of gender, race, and sexuality to draw that line: "remember/all humans/are cyborgs/all cyborgs/are sharp shards of sky/wrapped in meat...”
loving this poetry collection so much that its taking forever for me to finish - I keep rereading / not reading it in order whenever I pick it up
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pickChoi's poetry exists at the intersection of politics, sexuality, and identity, particularly through the lens of the "cyborg" Turing testing itself and asking questions which relate to its and human senses of self. Often the poems are jarring, sometimes brimming with violence or sex or the potential for either. This is ambitious, challenging poetry on the edge of contemporary culture. Recommended.
pickI really loved Franny Choi‘s chapbook DEATH BY SEX MACHINE, and this new collection seems to take the ideas there and extend them. There are voiceless robots, tentacled monsters, internet trolls, bodies in many configurations. I feel like what these poems are doing is looking at the ways we are (or are made) opaque to each other, and then reaching through that, exposing interiority in ways that feel sometimes monstrous and sometimes intimate.
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