culture consumed (September, 2020)

[hermionesviolin]

books

• picturebooks:
  • board books (which were pretty meh):
    • Citizen Baby: My Vote written by Megan E. Bryant and Daniel Prosterman, and illustrated by Micah Player
    • Baby Loves Gravity written by Ruth Spiro and illustrated by Irene Chan
    • Bravo!: Poems about Amazing Hispanics / Poemas Sobre Hispanos Extraordinarios written by Margarita Engle & illustrated by Rafael López
  • 2 uncategorized picturebooks I liked a lot:
    • Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando written by Andrea Wang & illustrated by Kana Urbanowicz 
      
    • Vote for Our Future! written by Margaret McNamara & illustrated by Micah Player
  • the three 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Award books I could get from the library and hadn't already read (which were mixed):
    • Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story written by Kevin Noble Maillard & illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal
    • Birdsong by Julie Flett
    • At the Mountain's Base written by Traci Sorell & illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre
• non-picturebooks:
  • book club books:
    • Space Opera by Cat Valente (Comicazi SFF book club) I think I liked this book even less than marginaliana did 😂
    • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Bi+ book club)
  • finally starting the trans!Jesus booklist I pulled like a year ago:
    • Trans/Formations ed. Lisa Isherwood and Marcella Althaus-Reid (2009) -- also very mixed

 
movies

• Jupiter Ascending (yes, again; this time with Thom on a date night)
  
  [I then showed them the Tumblr posts I had pulled the previous month -- plus: which Entitled Caine bit, "the bees recognized his supremacy", and an astrology blogpost which is the first hit if you Google "Jupiter 23 degrees ascendant"]

music

• Janelle Monáe - Turntables [Emotion Picture] (from the Amazon Original Movie All In: The Fight for Democracy, apparently) -- given that it said "Emotion Picture," I was definitely expecting it to be album-length instead of single-song length