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Tech Will Not Save Us
I am not okay with spewing things into the air that may change the colour of the sky to white just because the species I am part of has already spewed so much crap into the atmosphere that the climates we’ve taken for granted as life-supporting are changing in ways that will make fewer locations…
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The Business We Call Show
Every now and then, someone puts music and lit together in a way that just … bangs! It was so hard to not believe that this wasn’t a true story, that back in the day an amazing Black woman rocker hadn’t had her career sidelined by a wyte man and the industry and culture that…
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Anti-Holiday Camp
I consider Super Sad True Love Story to be right up there with Oryx & Crake as perfect speculative fiction as it also seem to take what we have now, society-wise, and project that into a tale of a perfectly dystopian near-future of capitalism run amok where ThePowersThatBeTM are at least a bit more honest…
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Working From the Inside is Still Working For the Inside
You wanna see a great movie? Watch Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley’s anti-capitalist, pro-union, fantastical sci-fi set perfectly in the current hellscape we call the good ol’ USofA. The soundtrack alone is pure fire. Black Buck is less fantastical, more reality-bound satire, but also centers on the problems of trying to achieve “success” within…
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Sookie Stackhouse Was Smart to Stay Single
Southern women and charming vampires is familiar territory. I miss Sookie Stackhouse and the completely separate (and more diverse) ‘verse of True Blood, tho’ to be honest I never finished the tv series due to a dislike of Sookie’s escape into faerie land ending the last season I watched. Aaaanyway, I grabbed this little gem…
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Options for Disposal
When people start banging on about how overpopulation is not a problem because there are more than enough room/resources to maintain every single human and the only problem is that elites are hoarding everything, it’s all I can do not to scream because, while yes, the ownership class has privatized the shit out of potable…
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Private Property IS the Root of All Evil
As someone who only half-watched The Other Boleyn Girl, I truly had no idea that the author had something like this little trilogy (Wildacre, The Favoured Child, & Meridon) under her belt. In looking over some of the everyday reader reviews, I saw they all focused negatively on the sex in the book and “unlikeability”…
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How People Survive
This was one of those books about people living such a different experience from mine that had me constantly stopping to smh & wonder, “How do they keep going on like that?” Obviously, addiction is a hurdle that a person with damn little self-esteem or sense of worth is going to have a hell of…
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Read, Despite Barack’s Recommend
I do love short stories. Bonbons in the world of fiction, they can be consumed in one or two bites and the best are filled with a powerful flavour that can make one long for more or be intensely satiated for much longer than it took to read them. Neither Asian-themed bonbons or full-course meals…
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Futures That Don’t Ignore the Past
To be perfectly honest, it was Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s name that made me pick up this collection: sci-fi is not my fave genre but N.K. Jemisin didn’t release another bunch of shorts and these were stories that promised a variety of styles (hard and soft) so I knew I’d simply have to enjoy at least…
Inhaling & Exhaling 