So I pretty much inhaled this cult 80s novel about an upper-class female architect enrolled in the Sandinista revolutionary guerilla in 70s #Nicaragua. It's both nuanced and terrifying. Also very feminist, with men in the movement trying their best to deprogram their own machismo, with varying degrees of success. ⬇
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Like this so far, Blank is a good author, but I have a degree in gender studies and all of this just reminds me of the uselessness of it all. Biologists and historians and anthropologists and sociologists can be experts on human gender and sexuality until the cows come home, but it doesn't MATTER because the horrid little regressives stick their fingers in their ears and go "nu-uh, we want sexual slavery back instead! "
My book, Women who run with Wolves just arrived. Already a connection on p. 4. We are reading the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid in 10th grade English Among other things, we are using Barbie‘s monologue in the movie to further illustrate society‘s contradictory expectations for women as a springboard for discussion & written reflection. https://youtu.be/CBqlDWHkdHk
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Halfway through tagged book and enjoying it.
I made Nicaraguan fresco de cacao ( using this recipe : https://www.jonathanmelendez.com/nicaraguan-fresco-de-cacao/ )
Veeeery nice: it's a cold chocolate drink made with cacao beans, cinnamon, rice, sugar and vanilla. It's more involved and time-consuming than I first thought (whole process shown in pic), but I will make it again.
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I have been obsessed with Artemisia Gentileschi since reading the tagged and it is so interesting to see one of her paintings in real life.
Here is Susanna and the Elders
pick4⭐️ Really liked this book; it was really well paced, had very interesting characters that were compelling in their own way. Had a bit of an issue with the last two chapters in that I felt that they were both a little too long. #2025 #fiction #bookerprize #feminism #bipoc #intersectionality #literaryfiction
I still had more to say about Rose Hackman's Emotional Labor, and I'm testing my family's patience by talking about it nonstop, so I blogged about it: https://imperfecthappiness.org/2025/09/10/emotional-labor-by-rose-hackman-and-my...
Photo doesn't relate to the post at all, I just was excited that a hummingbird finally sat still long enough for me to take its photo.
Okay, I think I‘ve caught up. I‘ve finished chapter one. I‘m still processing, but I felt like there was a connection between this first chapter and this video is a on YouTube the other day. Maybe it doesn‘t connect. I may still be under the influence of cold meds, but I kept thinking about this video all throughout the first chapter and wanted to share.
https://youtu.be/UmpdyNe9RAg?si=HmxRbReu_c7edLsB
As an aside, I hate the male-gazy Gauguin-inspired cover, with a woman who probably only looks vaguely like the women in the book.
The orange in the pic is for a Nicaraguan dish I plan on making later in the week. (And an orange-tree is central in the novel.) (edited) 3h