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kitoconnell

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They/them type middle-aged queerdo. GLAAD-award nominated journalist. Formerly Digital Editor at the Texas Observer. Disabled with #fibromyalgia.

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"I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my life."

The opening line to James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room is a masterclass in opening lines, the way it lulls you into cozyness then slaps you with that final clause.

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"If you think about Harry Potter books as emblematic of where we are, even though those books were written by a women they tend to be very traditionally sexist, very imperialist and racist in the sense that once again we have our little European white-boy hero. And I'm not here to say those books are not enjoyable or valuable, but they certainly don't offer a paradigm that breaks with conventional thinking. And the question to me isn't so much 'Why are the Harry Potter books so well received?' but: Why aren't other books that are alternative, that offer different kinds of visions, just as popular? Because we do know that a very patriarchal, white male-dominated mass media really pushed the Harry Potter books. ... People say to me,'Well, children really love them." I say, Well, guess what? Children wouldn't have known anything about what some white female in England is writing without a powerful patriarchally based mass media that really hyped these books.

"And one of the constant struggles for feminist thinking and writing and our visions is that we rarely have access to that kind of powerful mainstream media. There are wonderful visionary feminist that no one reads. They don't get hyped." - bell hooks on , Bitch magazine, 2000

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