culture consumed (July, 2021)

[hermionesviolin]

books

• 3 picturebooks
  
• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett [trans girl short story collection]
  
• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi -- which makes more sense having read Freshwater first, and also adds a lot to one's understanding of Freshwater
  
• [work book club] The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
  
• [for two different book clubs] The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
  
  Someone suggested this book for my feminist sci-fi bookclub, but what sold me was seeing that the author Tweeted

  I don’t always retweet reviews of my book, but this one tackles trauma and healing so thoughtfully it warrants it. It’s also the first review of my work (that I’m aware of) to put abolitionist policies in conversation with my particular brand of optimism.

  RTing Virginia Eubanks:

  What an abolitionist restoration drama about trauma brings to the party that Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war satire doesn't: care, healing, hope. #PTSDBookclub considers @micaiah_johnson's extraordinary debut novel: The Space Between Worlds. https://virginia-eubanks.com/?p=1838

theatre

• [New Rep] Listen to Sipu -- about the history of the colonization of what is now Watertown

movies

• [fannish movie night] Gunpowder Milkshake