@govkathyhochul.bsky.social Jarett Gandolfo & Alexis Weik: restore visits, basic rights, end brutality, protect HALT & pass urgent reforms NOW! (2/2)

Let us know what you think! Open to suggestions :)

In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club.

📚The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
3 industrial factory employees focus on their specific & sort of strange jobs while the factory slowly expands, blurring the lines between factory & outside world. Told in alternating 1st person narratives. Strange creatures appear! (I haven’t read this yet)

(8/9)

📚The Employees by Olga Ravn

Set in the near future, this book follows the human and humanoid crew of a space ship that took on strange objects from another planet through witness statements compiled by a workplace commission. (I haven’t read this yet)

(7/9)

📚Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead volume 1 by Haro Aso
Akira had a soul crushing job, but his life turns around when the zombie apocalypse begins, and he no longer has to go into the office. (This would be our first manga! I read this right after leaving my corporate job so l’m a fan)
(6/?)

When Gerard’s consciousness gets uploaded to his company’s Slack chat, his coworkers assume he just wants to work from home. His productivity has skyrocketed so his boss doesn’t mind, despite Gerard’s attempts to find help. Written entirely in the format of slack chats!

(5/?)

📚Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

(I’ve read this and enjoyed it!!)

(4/?)

In one of the last safe neighborhoods of LA in the future, hyperempathetic Lauren loses her family and home to a fire and must head out into the dangerous world and venture north in search of safety with a group of survivors, thinking of revolutionary ways to save mankind.

(3/?)

📚Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

I haven’t read this yet, but l’ve read a different book by this author and liked the writing style!

(2/?)

“[…] slenderness served as a marker of moral, racial, and national superiority”

📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings

In solidarity, WR Book Club.

(2/2)

“[…] rather than uniting to challenge unjust political and economic systems.” (2/2)

“As the first chapter of this book describes, the political strategy of divide, demonize, and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States—since the days of slavery—to keep poor and working people angry at (and fearful of) one another […]” (1/2)

We encourage you to think about the ways each shift in societal ideals alters power dynamics, who decides/ sets the trend, and who benefits each time. (3/3)

We’ll be reading about the dynamic and shifting politicalization of bodies, eventually creating a frenzied hatred of fatness as a means to disenfranchise Black people and women while securing the power of white men. (2/3)