i’ve compiled a huge google drive folder of anarchist, socialist, feminist, anti-colonial, anti-imperial books+ essays, crip + disability theory, queer theory, critical race theory, film theory, transnational + diaspora trauma study essays, and writings that combine all of the above
some essays i’ve got from school, most of the books and some essays r from beautiful people on the internet
to be updated as often as i get more shit. which is fairly often~
a collections of links to readings on asian-american gay and lesbian history
“Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggles to Create a Safe Space, 1970s-1980s,” Trinity A. Ordona, in Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, 2003 [starts on p. 319]
“Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out,” Christine T. Lipat, Trinity A. Ordona, Cianna Pamintuan Steward, and Mary Ann Ubaldo, in Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory (2005)
“Slicing Silence: Asian Progressives Come Out,” Daniel C. Tsang, in Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, 2001
“Sexuality, Identity, and the Uses of History,” Nayan Shah, in Q & A: Queer in Asian American, 1998 [starts on p. 141]
“Subverting Seductions,” Gupta, Unruly Immigrants, 2007 [starts on p. 159]
“Queer Asian American Historiography,” Amy Sueyoshi, in The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, 2016 [contains discussion of csa]
“Miss Morning Glory: Orientalism and Misogyny in the Queer Writings of Yone Noguchi,” Amy Sueyoshi, in Amerasia Journal, 2011
“Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History,” Amy Sueyoshi, in LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, 2016
“Looking for Jiro Onuma: A Queer Meditation on the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II,“ Tina Takemoto, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2014
”Gay Asian Community Oral History Project“ (abstracts only)
Books📚
The Oxford History of World Cinema
A History of Narrative Film
New History of Japanese Cinema
Japanese Cinema Texts and Contexts
A New Guide to Italian Cinema
Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema
French Cinema: A Student’s Guide
Historical Dictionary of German Cinema
Polish Cinema
Early Cinema In Russia
Spanish Cinema
Australian and New Zealand Cinema
Chinese Revolutionary Cinema
Chinese Martial Arts Cinema
Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema
The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s
A History of American Movies: A Film-by-Film Look at the Art, Craft, and Business of Cinema
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood, and New Global Cinema: No Film Is an Island
Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory
African Filmmaking
Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema
Middle Eastern Cinema
The New Brazilian Cinema
Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution
Readings in Philippine Cinema
Singapore Cinema
Taiwan Cinema, Memory, and Modernity
New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves
The Changing Face of Korean Cinema: 1960 to 2015
The Politics of Affect and Emotion in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico
Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina: Beyond Memory Fatigue
New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Reality Effects
Affectual Erasure: Representations of Indigenous Peoples in Argentine Cinema
The Projected Nation: Argentine Cinema and the Social Margins
Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema
Small Nation, Global Cinema: The New Danish Cinema
A History of Danish Cinema
Bollywood and Postmodernism: Popular Indian Cinema in the 21st Century
Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition
Reframing Reality: The Aesthetics of the Surrealist Object in French and Czech Cinema
All the Bright Young Men and Women: A Personal History of the Czech Cinema
The Art of Czech Animation: A History of Political Dissent and Allegory
Journal Articles 📑📄
Czech Cinema: From State Industry to Competition
Brazilian Cinema
The New Mexican Cinema
Malaysian Cinema
Indian Cinema: The and Now
Globalisation and Representations In Indian Cinema
Czech New Wave [from @joeypantoliano :^) ]
The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.
Dark Academia staples:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum
Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko
Dark academia litfic or contemporary:
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
White Ivy by Susie Yang
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
Attribution by Linda Moore
Dark academia thrillers or horror:
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
Dark academia romance:
Gothikana by RuNyx
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
Dark academia YA or MG:
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Crave by Tracy Wolff
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Dark academia miscellaneous:
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip
This is what I have so far.
For some books I'm still missing sources, and I know it's not complete or ✨️Aesthetic✨️. But if there is anything that you think should be on there, let me know.
you wanted it, you got it, babes! caveat: this list is long (seriously, sorry about the length) and i can’t write blurbs for everything, but i highly recommend going and looking at anything that sounds interesting. some books will fall under multiple headings, so i’m listing them twice. i am linking to their purchase pages on bookshop.org, because amazon sucks and bookshop helps support indie booksellers, but if your local indie bookstore offers delivery or curbside pickup, buy it there. and i’m trying to keep this list confined to pretty recent titles, so even though a few older ones might slip in there, it’s definitely centered on releases from the past few years. okay let’s do this.
godshot by chelsea bieker
the book of joan by lidia yuknavitch
girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo
her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (short stories)
trust exercise by susan choi
my dark vanessa by kate elizabeth russell
the rehearsal by eleanor catton
indelicacy by amina cain
the answers by catherine lacey
the mars room by rachel kushner
the love affairs of nathaniel p. by adelle waldman
you too can have a body like mine by alexandra kleeman
the new me by halle butler
queenie by candice carty-williams
prep by curtis sittenfeld
the idiot by elif batumen
my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh
oksana, behave! by maria kuznetsova
where’d you go, bernadette by maria semple
convenience store woman by sayaka murata
nothing to see here by kevin wilson
made for love by alissa nutting
the pisces by melissa broder
the herd by andrea bartz
mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf
the awakening by kate chopin
we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson
gone girl by gillian flynn
rebecca by daphne du maurier
white oleander by janet fitch
cousin bette by honore de balzac
wide sargasso sea by jean rhys
play it as it lays by joan didion
the piano teacher by elfriede jelinek
valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann
postcards from the edge by carrie fisher
if we were villains by m.l. rio
social creature by tara isabelle burton
the basic eight by daniel handler
the incendiaries by r.o. kwon
bunny by mona awad
hex by rebecca dinerstein knight
the dreamers by karen thompson walker
the book of joan by lidia yuknavitch
severance by lin ma
gold fame citrus by claire vaye watkins
the farm by joanne ramos
followers by megan angelo
the power by naomi alderman
the glass hotel by emily st. john mandel
normal people by sally rooney
fame adjacent by sarah skilton
stay up with hugo best by erin somers
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid
circe by madeline miller
the nobodies by liza palmer
evvie drake starts over by linda holmes
my sister, the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite
baby teeth by zoje stage
dare me by megan abbott
eileen by ottessa moshfegh
social creature by tara isabelle burton
the worst kind of want by liska jacobs
the girls by emma cline
oligarchy by scarlett thomas
devotion by madeline stevens
baby by annaleese jochems
marlena by julie buntin
bunny by mona awad
necessary people by anna pitoniak
red at the bone by jacqueline woodson
the care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls by anissa grey
mostly dead things by kristen arnett
bee season by myla goldberg
bowlaway by elizabeth mccracken
everything i never told you by celeste ng
the nest by cynthia d’aprix sweeney
the grammarians by cathleen schine
ask again, yes by mary beth keane
my brilliant friend and the neapolitan novels by elena ferrante
such a fun age by kiley reid
gingerbread by helen oyeyimi
the female persuasion by meg wolitzer
the burning girl by claire messud
expectation by anna hope
the animators by kayla rae whitaker
my education by susan choi
permission by saskia vogel
mostly dead things by kristen arnett
real life by brandon taylor
after dolores by sarah schulman
patsy by nicole dennis-benn
wilder girls by rory power
enter the aardvark by jessica anthony
less by andrew sean greer
exciting times by naiose dolan
dept. of speculation by jenny offill
the interestings by meg wolitzer
godshot by chelsea bieker
play it as it lays by joan didion
the bonfire of the vanities by tom wolfe
wolf in white van by john darnielle
things you would know if you grew up around here by nancy wayson dinan
sex and rage by eve babitz
wise blood by flannery o’connor
leading men by christopher castellani
saint x by alexis schaitkin
the cosmopolitans by sarah schulman
lake success by gary shteyngart
odds against tomorrow by nathaniel rich
the great believers by rebecca makkai
good citizens need not fear by maria reva (short stories)
LITERATURE
House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic (1996)
"No proper feeling for her house": The Relational Formation of White Womanliness in Shirley Jackson's Fiction (2013)
WALKING ALONE TOGETHER: FAMILY MONSTERS IN "THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE" (2014)
"Some-are like My Own—": Emily Dickinson's Christology of Embodiment (2004)
A CIRCUMFERENCE OF EMILY DICKINSON (1973)
TWO WOMEN: THE STUDY OF THE DEATH THEME IN EMILY DICKINSON AND EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1967)
ECCENTRICITIES IN EMILY DICKINSON'S NATURE POETRY (1986)
Presence and Place in Emily Dickinson's Poetry (1984)
The Development of Dickinson's Style (1988)
The Riddles of Emily Dickinson (1978)
Identity, Complicity, and Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale (1994)
Forced, Forbidden and Rejected Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2006)
“TWO LEGGED WOMBS”: SURROGACY AND MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2019)
“I AM A NATURAL RESOURCE”: THE ECONOMY OF COMMODIFICATION IN ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2011)
The Ambiguity of Power in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2010)
Hairball Speaks: Margaret Atwood and the Narrative Legacy of the Female Grotesque (2010)
IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? — BIBLICAL INTERTEXT IN THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1993)
The Eye as Weapon in If Beale Street Could Talk (1978)
The American Dream Unhinged: Romance and Reality in "The Great Gatsby" and "Fight Club" (2007)
Historicizing Japan's Abject Femininity: Reading Women's Bodies in "Nihon ryōiki" (2013)
THEATRE
"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)
"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)
"Service" in King Lear (1958)
In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)
See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)
“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)
"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)
The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)
FILM
Review: Reservoir Dogs (1993)
A Slice of Delirium: Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" Revisited (1995)
Review: Taxi Driver (1976)
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
Docufictions: An Interview with Martin Scorsese on Documentary Film (2007)
AMERICAN CINEMA OF THE SIXTIES (1984)
Anatomy of the "Prick Flick": TAKING THE MEASURE OF MANLY MOVIES (2017)
Films: All the President's Men at the ABC (1976)
Back to the Future: The Humanist "Matrix" (2003)
RE-WRITING "REALITY": READING "THE MATRIX" (2000)
Bringing Love to the Screen (Interview with James Laxton) (2020)
INTERVIEW WITH BARRY JENKINS (2016)
Chasing Fae: "The Watermelon Woman" and Black Lesbian Possibility (2000)
Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977)
Sidney Lumet's Humanism: The Return to the Father in "Twelve Angry Men" (1986)
Intensified Continuity Visual Style in Contemporary American Film (2002)
LOVE AND THEFT (Shoplifters) (2018)
Notes on the Split-Field Diopter (2007)
Positive Images & the Coming out Film: THE ART AND POLITICS OF GAY AND LESBIAN CINEMA (2000)
Rock 'n' Roll Sound Tracks and the Production of Nostalgia (1999)
The Sounds of Silence: Songs in Hollywood Films since the 1960s (2002)
The Godfather Saga (1978)
"Plastics": "The Graduate" as Film and Novel (1985)
The New Wave's American Reception (2010)
OTHER
Review: When Evolution Became Conversation: "Vestiges of Creation," Its Readers, and Its Respondents in Victorian Britain (2001)
Movement, knowledge, emotion: Gay activism and HIV/AIDS in Australia (2011)
On the Trail of the "Witches:" Wise Women, Midwives and the European Witch Hunts (1987)
"Cooking with Love": Food, Gender, and Power (2010)
Female Identity, Food, and Power in Contemporary Florence (1988)
Feminist Food Studies: A Brief History
A modern day holy anorexia? Religious language in advertising and anorexia nervosa in the West (2003)
Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (1985)
The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920 (1995)
Women, piety and practice: A study of women and religious practice in Malaysia (2008)
With that last set of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill poems, Irish has reached the arbitrary 25-poem minimum to get its own index, so. Here it is.
All poems are accompanied by an English rendering, of variable quality.
Breathnach, Colm: “Macha”
Brennan, Deirdre: “An Tobar”
Ellis, Conleth: “Faire”
Ellis, Conleth: “Oilithireacht”
Ellis, Conleth: “Sa Stáisiún”
Kelly, Rita: “Dán Grá”
Kelly, Rita: “An Ré ina Luí”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Cadenza”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “An tEach Uisce”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Fionnuala”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Muintir m'Athar”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Oscailt an Tuama”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Sionnach”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Tráigh Gheimhridh”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Tsunami”
Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala: “Turas na Scríne”
Ní Ghlinn, Áine: “Sa Chistin”
Ó Céileachair, Séamas: “Uaigneas”
Ó Fiannachta, Pádraig: “Caisleán Gainimhe”
Ó Maolfabhail, Art: “Ní Bhíonn an Páganach gan a Chuid Féin den Charthanacht”
Ó Murchú, Aodh: “An Charraig”
Ó Murchú, Aodh: “Leascultúr”
Ó Néill, Séamus: “Amhrán Mhanannáin Mhic Lir”
Prút, Liam: “Réal sa tSeachtain”
Rosenstock, Gabriel: “Leacht Ceartaithe”
Neurodivergence in academic settings is highly misunderstood & under discussed. Below is a master list of information on the reality of being a neurodivergent student in an education system built for neurotypicals; as well as resources and tools to aid students with autism, adhd, dyslexia and more in higher education. Please share this post so it can reach, educate and assist and many people as possible.
**this will be continuously updated. if you have any additions please feel free to message me or send me an ask and i’ll add it to the list!
✰ EDUCATE YOURSELF
NEURODIVERSITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
VALUING DIFFERENCES: NEURODIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM
ADHD EDUCATION CARRD
AUTISM EDUCATION CARRD
MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AUTISM
DEALING WITH DYSLEXIA CARRD
TONE INDICATORS CARRD
✰ HELPFUL READS/SELF HELP
NEURODIVERSE SELF-CARE: MANAGING ANXIETY THROUGH CONNECTION
NEURODIVERSITY WELLNESS: LINKS TO SOME GREAT COVID-19 RESOURCES
PREPARING FOR COLLEGE WITH DYSLEXIA
AT UNIVERSITY: THE ART OF SHARING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISABILITY
HACKING YOUR ADHD - where you can learn techniques for helping your adhd brain
SURVIVING COLLEGE WITH ADHD
GOING TO COLLEGE WITH AUTISM
5 TIPS FOR AUTISTIC STUDENTS STARTING UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE
✰ TOOLS
FOCUS@WILL: an ios & android app designed to increase your focus and attention, Focus@Will uses specially engineered audio in which frequencies similar to the human voice are removed. Why? We are wired to pay attention to them, and they distract us.
FINISH: an app that lets you add tasks and divide them into “short term,” “mid term,” or “long term,” as defined by you.
CLAROSPEAK: ClaroSpeak offers the option of visual highlighting in-sync with the spoken words, a great range of colour and font settings to allow for optimum reading and word prediction to help with writing.
C PEN: The C-Pen Reader is a totally portable, pocket-sized device that reads text aloud with an English, Spanish or French human-like digital voice.
"An Excellent Thing in Woman": Virgo and Viragos in "King Lear" (1998)
Costume Design and Execution of King Lear by William Shakespeare (2010)
Depiction and Function of Madness in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature (2019)
"Documents in Madness": Reading Madness and Gender in Shakespeare's Tragedies and Early Modern Culture (1991)
Edmund's Redemption in King Lear (1975)
Elements in the Composition of "King Lear" (1933)
Humans And Animals In King Lear (2018)
In Defense of Goneril and Regan (1970)
"King Lear" and Chaos (1991)
"King Lear" and Negation (1990)
Performing Australian Identity: Gendering "King Lear" (2005)
"Service" in King Lear (1958)
See What Breeds about Her Heart: "King Lear", Feminism, and Performance (2004)
“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear (2015)
"The Darke and Vicious Place": The Dread of the Vagina in "King Lear" (1999)
The Emotional Landscape of King Lear (1988)
The Emotive use of Animal Imagery in "King Lear" (1962)
The Mirror and the Feather: Tragedy and Animal Voice in "King Lear" (2013)