Last year I read Ace by Angela Chen. It’s a book about asexuality and it had a huge impact on me. Among other things, it allowed me to reimagine a life where romantic and sexual love isn’t the end goal.

I don’t usually put much stock in identity days, but if you’re looking for a good read, why not add Ace to your Libby?

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I finished reading The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam this week. I read it because I have been thinking a lot about failure for my #HigherCalling project, which asks what work is and how we can do it well under violent conditions.

It's apparently a classic, but I had never read it so I thought I'd share some reflections in the spirit of #GenerousReading.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Queer-Art-of-Failure/

I’m slowly working my way through Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! and her discussion of career advice, buried in chapter 6, should be required reading for all of us.

🤯 #GenerousReading

Fellowship Application, Janel Pineda, Lineage of Rain

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1658-lineage-of-rain
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Finished reading After the Ivory Tower Falls, an analysis of the past and future of higher ed by journalist Will Bunch.

The book describes higher ed in the US as a “failed experiment” and a “disaster,” from the idealism of the GI Bill to today’s exorbitant debt and false meritocracy.

It makes a strong case for decentering universities in favor of funded training opportunities for young people.

#GenerousReading

Today in #GenerousReading, thinking about reputations:

“If you can become a complainer before you make a complaint, or even without making a complaint, you can make a complaint without becoming a complainer.”