Il faut en finir avec la dysphorie de genre. C’est juste un fait, purement technique. Sans ça l’oppresseur est légitimé dans sa violence. […] Je trouve qu’on gagnerait vraiment à axer le fait d’être trans sur la joie que l’on a à pouvoir nous affirmer plutôt que sur une souffrance indissociable de nos vécus.
Tracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)Over the years, I’ve seen lots of blog posts discussing what people could blog about (anything!), exploring philosophies of blogging, and explaining how to set up a blog on a variety of content management systems. I don’t think I’ve seen someone walk through their process for writing a blog po…
tracy puts so much more effort than me in writing her blog posts 🙂 one thing that we have in common is the writing organization: start with a structure, fill it with bullet points (and move them around if you feel like a new structure is more appropriate now that you have all your info),…
Definitely liking how ActivityPub works with my two blogs. However, there are a few limitations.
I’ve been using activitypub for wordpress for several months now, before it was officially supported by wordpress.org and then wordpress.com. Otherwise I don’t have any good knowledge of the plugin, so this is just « random user knowledge », not expert or even power user answers. But replying to two of the flaws you highlight…
In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee.
This memoir started out as a read for my « Around the world in 195 countries » challenge and ended up with me sobbing (yes, again – what can I say, October was a mental health struggle). It was an excellent read.
A former Rookie contributor and creator of the popular blog Effing Dykes investigates the disappearance of America’s lesbian bars by visiting the last few in existence.
An excellent read in which Krista Burton tells us about her travels to 23 lesbian bars in the USA immediately after the pandemic lockdowns. She tells us about the importance of these places, their individual stories, different lesbian cultures across her country and much more, with a lot of thoughts about who belongs in lesbian…
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in this lyrical debut novel from the acclaimed author of If They Come For Us.
This novel follows three sisters who are orphaned at a young age and left in the « care » of a neglectful uncle. These three young Muslim girls grow up in the USA and have very different lives. The story is told from the point of view of the youngest, starting with what a small…
Autriche, 1931. Lors d’une soirée où se réunissent artistes et intellectuels viennois, Wilhelm, jeune journaliste de 25 ans, a le coup de foudre pour Almah. Mais très vite la montée de l’antisémitisme vient assombrir leur histoire d’amour. Malgré un quotidien de plus en plus menaçant, le jeune couple attend 1939 pour se résoudre à l’exil. Un nouvel espoir avant la désillusion : ils seront arrêtés en Suisse. Consignés dans un camp de réfugiés, ils n’ont qu’un seul choix : faire partie des 100 000 Juifs attendus en République dominicaine après l’accord passé par le dictateur local Trujillo avec les autorités américaines. Loin des richesses de l’Autriche, la jungle sauvage et brûlante devient le décor de leur nouvelle vie. L’opportunité de se réinventer ?
Cet énorme pavé suivant une famille juive autrichienne dans les années 1930 puis 1940 et leur exil en République dominicaine me donne envie de poser plein de questions sur ce pan de l’histoire, et je suis ravi qu’un roman vienne faire connaître cette initiative et la période. J’ai beaucoup apprécié ma lecture.
