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Bethany Joy Winn
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🌈 queer, Rev. MDiv.
💀 hospice chaplain, death positive
🤎 cats, reading, crafting, singing
🐝 native/pollinator yard
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TURNED ON A Creative's Guide to Awakening Presence, Pleasure, and Possibility BRIE STONER Turned on: A Creative's Guide to Awakening Presence, Pleasure, and Possibility Brie Stoner 224 pages missing.pub info (editions) 3.75 See review Finished Feb 2, 2025 nonfiction art feminism play self help A review by you! Turned on: A Creative's Guide to Awakening Presence, Pleasure, and Possibility by Brie Stoner hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced 3.75 Reading this was a whirlwind romance, a seduction of self and what is yet to become. Brie shares vulnerably from her lived experience and the sensual, embodied wisdom she has accumulated along the way. She extends an invitation to more: more love, more pleasure, more creativity, more awareness, more presence, more possibility. What might be possible if more of us were turned on?
February 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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May it be today. And today. And today.
January 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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January 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder 128 pages first pub 2017 (editions) 4.25 See review Finished Jan 26, 2025 nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced A review by you! ث On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder informative inspiring fast-paced 4.25 Quick handbook for anyone feeling any sort of thing about the current administration. Learn a little from history, get practical and specific tips & strategies for responding to the present and preparing for what may yet come. I would push back on a few things (there are non-TERF-authored novels highlighting resistance, for example) but overall this is a helpful, concise, clear reference point for all who would resist tyranny and seek mutual liberation and flourishing.
January 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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"[T]his novel...depicts generations of queer couplings w/o flinching. Avoiding the tragic queer narrative, Akbar portrays queer relationships as complicated, tender, full of ups & downs. In Martyr!, queer ppl simply live their lives & love each other; refreshing & masterfully told." (masters review)
Martyr! "Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever." -TOMMY ORANGE A NOVEL Kaveh Akbar Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 331 pages first pub 2024 (editions) 5.0 See review Finished Jan 24, 2025 read fiction contemporary Igbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced A review by you! Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar ث emotional funny reflective sad medium- paced Plot- or character-driven? A mix Strong character development? It's complicated Loveable characters? Yes Diverse cast of characters? Yes Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes 5.0 I was about to give it 4.75 and say that I wanted to give it five stars but needed a little more resolution or clarity...and then I realized that in fact I love this book exactly as it is. It asks tremendous questions and doesn't stoop to offer saccharine answers. The characters feel real and complicated and loveable and sometimes infuriating in a way that's all so deeply human. The exploration of life and death and art and legacy and love and what matters...I think I want my hospice chaplain colleagues to read this and have a book club. Then I'll amend this review.
January 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Also stabbing things.
January 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Today.
January 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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"You think there isn't anyone as ordinary as you," June had said. "And that makes you angry. But you always choose to be kind, even when that's not how you feel inside, and that's what makes witches out of ordinary folk."
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The Black Tree Atop the Hill Karla Yvette 140 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) 3.25 See review Finished Jan. 13, 2025 A review by you! ث The Black Tree Atop the Hill by Karla Yvette dark mysterious reflective slow-paced Plot- or character-driven? A mix Strong character development? No Loveable characters? It's complicated Diverse cast of characters? No Flaws of characters a main focus? No 3.25 Strange. The story has potential but the author's style didn't draw me in. There were a few really beautiful sentences or moments, but overall I didn't find it compelling. The main character was my least favorite; the other characters were more interesting and the horses actually were my favorite characters. I think the author said too much about some things and neglected to really tease out the themes and character development that would have made it great.
January 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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"Sometimes, witchwork is just being angry enough to do something impossible."
January 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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What happened here?
January 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Can I not edit a post? #2025Reads
A review by you! Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens adventurous emotional funny fast-paced Plot- or character-driven? Character Strong character development? Yes Loveable characters? Yes Diverse cast of characters? Yes Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated 4.5 This was an unexpected delight. Picked up because it's part of a sapphic book club for a local bookstore, I read it quickly. I don't like Westerns as a genre and typically avoid romance or sexy themes, but even though this book was all of them, it told a story that was more about self-discovery and chosen family in a way that defies the conventions of the cliches of the aforementioned genres. I loved this book and recommend it. I also think it would be a really fun, sexy, exciting, action-packed film. I'm already casting it in my imagination
January 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Book cover and review page for PAGEBOY by Elliot Page. Photo is a white trans man in a white tank top and jeans. He has brown hair and a steady expression, eyes are direct and unflinching. 272 pages first pub 2023 (editions) 3.5 A MEMOIR Finished Jan 4, 2025 This was a tough read. I listened to the author read it on audiobook, which I appreciated, but it was also tough to follow. It's written in a very stream-of- consciousness way, not linear, so it was often confusing about when things were taking place. Elliot has clearly done a lot of work but I also felt that there was a lot still unsettled in him, so it broke my heart, often, to listen. By the end I heard his light coming back and I think it's important to notice what a difference it makes to know and be oneself and to be seen and known.
January 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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This was an unexpected delight. Picked up because it's part of a sapphic book club for a local bookstore. It told a story that was about self-discovery and empowerment, chosen family and loyalty though also had excitement, action, gunslingers, sex. I unexpectedly loved this book.
January 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM