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In Sensorium
In Sensorium: Notes for My People | Tanaïs
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Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned— Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanaïs weaves a brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning that offers a critical, alternate history of South Asia from an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective. From stories of their childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York; to transcendent experiences with lovers, psychedelics, and fragrances; to trips home to their motherland, Tanaïs builds a universe of memories and scent: a sensorium. Alongside their personal history, and at the very heart of this work, is an interrogation of the ancient violence of caste, rape culture, patriarchy, war, and the inherited ancestral trauma of being from a lush land constantly denuded, a land still threatened and disappearing because of colonization, capitalism, and climate change. Structured like a perfume—moving from base to heart to head notes—IN SENSORIUM interlaces eons of South Asian perfume history, erotic and religious texts, survivor testimonies, and material culture with memoir. In Sensorium is archive and art, illuminating the great crises of our time with the language of Liberation.
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My best queer books of the year is up today on Autostraddle dot com! This list is truly a labour of love and a very difficult thing to put together because there is so much abundance in queer lit today. Did your favourite queer books of the year make the list? Let me know! #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks #LGBTQ #TransBooks #BisexualBooks https://www.autostraddle.com/92-of-the-best-queer-books-of-2022/

Soubhiville Wow, what a list! I‘m embarrassed how few of these I‘ve read, but now my TBR is exploding! I‘ve bookmarked this so I can come back to it. 📚📚📚😠2y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Soubhiville thanks! And no need to be embarrassed, the only embarrassment is the embarrassment of riches that is queer books today. There are so many to choose from! 2y
Soubhiville It‘s true! My StoryGraph says I read 49 queer books this year. I remember when I was younger and it was a challenge to find enough of them, as you said. So I‘m thrilled to be able to say LGBTQIA in general is my most read genre this year! 2y
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batsy I'm looking forward to perusing this list later (and adding to the TBR!) 2y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @batsy yay, I hope you find some gems 2y
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