The Most Important Person In My Life, And Also Chen.

your own personal jesus.

No joke, go read The Open Veins of Latin America before even trying to send me a political ask. Mandatory reading.

It's a cliché that every Latin American leftist has read it and quotes it, but that's because it's written in such a clear language with undeniable strenght on its facts. It presents the history of Latin America solidly just in the first few pages, and it only gets more engrossing the more it goes on. While it is now a bit outdated in the sense that it was first published in 1971, the historical, social and political issues presented are -in an unfortunate way- still current. It is a relatively short book, passionate and in a clear, poetic language.

Sometimes it's good to return to the basics, and this is THE basic book if you want to understand the effects of imperialism in Latin America, and our struggle for freedom and identity.

Instead of losing your time with half baked twitteroid takes, go read it. Here you go, for free, in Spanish, Portuguese and English:

https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r31206.pdf

https://copyfight.noblogs.org/gallery/5220/Veias_Abertas_da_Am%C3%83%C2%A9rica_Latina(EduardoGaleano).pdf

https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America.pdf

They bring terrible Four-Arm-Woman-Person to our home and hang her in sky like big star and sea boils. All death.

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So…a lot happened in episode 36, huh?

✨ that’s a wrap! ✨ my goal was to read 1 book per month so this year was more than successful (ㅅ´ ˘ `)♡ and so many 4-5 starrers!

Invisible Cities • Italo Calvino 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Severance • Ling Ma ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Tombs of Atuan • Ursula LeGuin 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🔁 Fallen Hero: Rebirth (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fallen Hero: Retribution (IF) • Malin Rydén @fallenhero-rebirth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🔁 The Amulet of Samarkand • Jonathan Stroud ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

The Golden Compass • Phillip Pullman 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Powers • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Gideon the Ninth • Tamsyn Muir 💀 DNF.

The Subtle Knife • Phillip Pullman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Here There Be Dragons (Webcomic) • Steve Horton & co-creators @htbdcomic 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Farthest Shore • Ursula LeGuin ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Nimona • Nate Stevenson 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Moon of the Crusted Snow • Waubgeshig Rice 💀 DNF.

Ain’t I A Woman • Bell Hooks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Ship of Magic • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Empress of Salt & Fortune • Nghi Vo 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Pillars of the Earth • Ken Follett 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Braiding Sweetgrass • Robin Wall Kimmerer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨

🔁 Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone • JK Rowling ⭐️⭐️

Mad Ship • Robin Hobb 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

“In their old age the roles had reversed, and Patience had lovingly tended her failing ‘serving woman’ to the end of her days.”

lgbtq nation rise up

Do you ever think about how fucked up it would be if your brother died and came back but now he has someone else's face and all the stupid scars from climbing trees and stuff are gone and he used to be just taller than you but now he's like two inches shorter than you and he still talks the same way but in someone else's voice

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

and i think its corny to act as if this type of post is intended to be a positivity post or a living rec list. it isn’t. thats a lovely & constructive way to use the notes, but the post is negative. the post is a call to examine racist behavior, not an invitation to talk about yourself as the specialest exception, or a request for book recs & positivity. so for you to then see anyone, including OP, in the replies being even a little harsh on the erasure & implicit bias that is the subject of the post itself, and get upset bc that kind of negativity isn’t copacetic w the wholesome, conversation-ending spin u want to put on the post? is corny.

it’s also cuckoo crazy for cocoa puffs how any time there’s a sardonic “name one [member of an under-represented group]” post, 100,000 tumblrinas will triumphantly Name One as if that actually addresses the complaint or exonerates them from the culture that generated it. you’re NOT passing!

The Nine 💍🌿🏹 With this, I'd like to thank everyone who purchased someone from my Tolkien-characters-series! The earnings reached about 2 000USD and were donated to these three organizations (to help nature, animals, and humans) - Czech Union for Nature Conservation Caritas Bez mámy THANK YOU SO MUCH! 💖

It's wild how "women are reading frivolous and immoral novels that are rotting their brains" is such an evergreen moral panic. You'd think we'd have figured this one out by now.