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My June #bookspin picks! I‘ve had the Horowitz on my shelf for, oh, 20, 25 years now. I was quite the little college Republican. I suppose it may seem dated now, but I‘ll give it a try - if I can‘t get into it, then I‘ll make myself let it go. And Horowitz just passed away this year, so it‘s as good a time as any to revisit his writing.

Bag of Bones was my gift in a Halloween swap a couple of years ago and I‘ve somehow not yet read it. Let‘s go!

Recent acquisitions:

📖 Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
📖 Common Sense by Thomas Paine

#fREADom #UniteAgainstBookBans

Much more academic than i was expecting but interesting.

#BookMoods #SetInThe1960s Grabbed a few off the shelves. I have many books from/set in that decade.
And a link to McNeill , he died young.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/05/18/don-mcneill-documenter-of-the-hippie-exp...

Whether people are actively discouraged from expanding the scope of their lives to pad the pockets of corporations or not, the outcome is the same.

🎶🌈the more you know❤️🎶

From @wanderinglynn's #pantone2022 Pantone Dahlia 18-3324 TCX

I think I have sufficient matches for this one!

The DuBois is my February #doublespin and I hope to finish the manifesto anthology soon, too.

This took me forever to read, but I‘m glad I pushed through because it is such an important text and Robinson is so clearly a genius historian and political scientist. It definitely made me rethink a lot about how I move in this world personally and especially politically, and what it truly means to be an accomplice and comrade in the struggle for Black liberation. A must-read for all radicals.

#conflictedworlds This book , written in the 1990s, shows man has a long history of mistrust & going against #technology The luddite uprising against the Industrial Revolution circa 1811 … still on my TBR

"We must all get away from the false commercial standards of "beauty" imposed on us by movie moguls and advertising firms, because the youth/beauty hang-up sets us against one another in a frenzied competition for attention, and leads in the end to an obsession with self which is death to real affection or real sensual love."

-Gay Liberation Front Manifesto

#lgbtq #feminist #manifesto