culture consumed (September, 2018)

books

• 34 picturebooks, including:
  • 9 Jewish picturebooks (After someone I follow RTed a thread about a culturally-clueless Kirkus review of Where's the Potty on This Ark?, I checked out Kar-Ben's catalog.)
    
  • finished the water-themed books I had started reading in July (I read ~13 in July, ~8 in August [not counting the ones M already owned], and ~18 in September)
• books for adults
  • What the Werewolf Told Them / Lo que los dijo el licantropo by Chely Lima -- queer trans Cuban-American poet
    • & Waves Breaking podcast episode
  • Fifteen Steps Out of Darkness: The Way of the Cross for People on the Journey of Mental Illness written by Scott Rose, Fred Wenner, and Al Rose #TheBook
    
  • Redeeming Capitalism by Kenneth J. Barnes (my boss is friends with the author and asked me to buy a copy of the book and it arrived while he was out of town and I was curious)
    
  • Made for Love by Alissa Nutting (feminist sci-fi bookclub)
    
  • We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology ed. Tara Madison Avery and Jeanne Thornton

tv

• caught up on Riverdale S2 (2.13-2.22) mostly so I could get to the Carrie musical episode, ngl ... which wasn't actually worth it, but I was actually glad I finished out the season
  
• continued through Marvel's Luke Cage S2 on Netflix [2.07-2.09]
  
• first two episodes of Siren on Freeform

movies

• Atomic Blonde (rewatch, fannish movie night)
  
• Bisbee '17 (nonfiction feature film)
  
• 13th (rewatch, FCS)
  
• Dawnland (rewatch, Radcliffe)
  
• 3 films in the Boston Women's Film Festival:
  • Jennifer's Body
    
  • Yellow Is Prohibited (documentary about female Chinese couture designer Guo Pei, whose dress Rihanna wore at the Met Gala 2015 [China: Through the Looking Glass])
    
  • Wild Nights With Emily (dramatic comedy biopic about Emily Dickinson -- pushing back against the myth that she was a total recluse and that she didn't want to be published in her lifetime #queer)

podcasts

• Mabel Season 3 finale (I had stalled out because Mabel was unlikable and then Anna was becoming unlikable, but the S3 finale is SO GOOD) & all of Season 4

visual art

• We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 at the ICA

music

• Hozier's Nina Cried Power EP on Spotify
  
• Joan Osbourne's debut album Relish (which is not the album one would expect to contain the hit single "One of Us")

other

• oh, and the online class I'm auditing ("Frida Kahlo's Mexico: Women, Arts, and Revolution") started this month, so I've read lots of articles and looked carefully at various paintings