pickFor this year‘s #AustenianAugust, I revisited Persuasuon (beautifully narrated on audio) paired with an inspired-by romance set in Toronto‘s Golden Crescent neighborhood.
Like the author‘s P&P retelling which I enjoyed a few years ago, this folded elements of Austen‘s classic (reunited lovers previously separated by questionable advice) into something new by adding the unique cultural pressures & coming-of-age woes of a modern Muslim woman.
pickThis was such a sweet romance! I really liked Mimi and Vincent slow burn fake relationship to real feelings ❤️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI appreciated the author's emphasis in this book on the lives of people in the marginalized QTBIPOC disabled community. So often, they are overlooked.
As a disabled person, I found the book to be hopeful, helpful, and enlightening. I am often not aware of my own ableism or need for community of others like me. I feel like I learned a lot.
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We need a Care revolution
Adaptive devices
Accessible spaces
Library of things
Virtual events
The pandemic never ended 😷
Crip pleasure - joy is resistance. Existence is resistance
Crip doula
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Disability justice
Care work
People tell you to “Feel better soon”
Grief - I'm dealing with so much of this, for dreams and life I thought I would have
Mutual aid
Do what you can. What you're able ❤️
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I really resonated with this book as a fat femme with multiple chronic illnesses. One of which I'm still trying to get a diagnosis for even though I've been dealing with it my whole life. I'm newer to the disabled community so this book was a great learning tool for myself. One of my goals is to find and build disabled support for myself both online and local.
What did y'all think of the book? Anything that stood out?
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Content warnings: ableism, grief, pandemic, chronic illness, mental illness, racism, death, medical trauma, sexual assault, rape, suicide
“We die because we don‘t matter in the non-disabled world.”
Note: This book is not easy.
If anyone doesn‘t believe this quote after everything we witnessed since the beginning of COVID, their heads are so deep in the sand they‘ve hit bedrock. I really feel this now that Trump‘s man RFK Jr is destroying the few things that were protecting my daughter and the governor of California is actively cutting services to disabled people.
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