Decolonize Your Bookshelf🧡
Just had someone tell me on one of my TikToks, they don’t think people read #bipoc books because they don’t wanna read about social issues.
I didn’t know our existence was a “social issue”. 🙄🙄🙄
#bookstodon #books #reading #amreading #diversity #diversebooks #decolonizeyourbookshelf
Dec 17, 2022 at 11:01pmWeb
Show threadRenJBDec 17, 2022
@Paperbacks_n_Frybread oh yes. We are by our very DNA "political" , and a "social issue", and are unable to be considered neutral human beings. I've gotten that line about ...well, quite a lot I've attempted to present creatively as myself. *shakes head*
Show threadDecolonize Your Bookshelf🧡Dec 17, 2022
@renjb it’s so damn tiring.
Show threadBeandog9Dec 17, 2022
@Paperbacks_n_Frybread I’ve been making a point of reading BIPOC literature.
Show threadHenry Neilsen (He/Him)Dec 17, 2022
@Paperbacks_n_Frybread oh thats so frustrating! The other one I don't like hearing is "I try to not make my writing political". That frustrates me a lot.
Show threadDecolonize Your Bookshelf🧡Dec 17, 2022
@henryneilsen UGHH! YES! And yet they’ll read white feminist regency literature 🤦🏽‍♀️
Show threadfernDec 18, 2022
@Paperbacks_n_Frybread oh wow.
Show threadMazzyDec 18, 2022

@Paperbacks_n_Frybread

I read Claire Ratinon's book "Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong" because I wanted to know about gardening and identity.

Did I get a side helping of social issues? Why, yes I did. I have no problem with that. It's a wonderful and fascinating book.

#Bookstodon #books #reading #diversity

Show threadLeft EyeDec 18, 2022
@mazzy this is really interesting. I read the preview of this book and it struck me as deep with meaning, and reflections of my own experience. So I bought it. Then came back here and looked at your avatar. You could be me, a few decades ago. Like looking at a mirror image. How strange is this?
Show threadMazzyDec 18, 2022
@lefteye I hope you enjoy reading Unearthed. And it's good to know that I have a New Zealand doppelganger out there. I was lucky enough to spend six weeks in early 2012 travelling around NZ, mostly the south island. So if you ever caught a glimpse of someone ten years ago and thought "she looks just like..." then perhaps that was me.
Show threadLaurenDec 18, 2022
@Paperbacks_n_Frybread good god people are just *insert word choice here*. 🙄 I definitely don’t read enough #bipoc, but am always up for recommendations!
Show threadDecolonize Your Bookshelf🧡Dec 18, 2022
@LaurenHLoz I am trying to do daily recommendations, but tell me what kind of books you’re into!
Show threadLaurenDec 19, 2022
@Paperbacks_n_Frybread ooh, pretty much anything! I’m happy to give anything a try. Don’t want to limit myself. 😃
Show threadKevix (he/him) :debian:Dec 18, 2022
@Paperbacks_n_Frybread
"“Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may inquire. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)"
Show threadDecolonize Your Bookshelf🧡Dec 18, 2022
@kevix ooooo, what a good quote. Thank you for sharing!