Navigating this is new to me, so it's great to read something advocating so fiercely for a while and complete space for aces of all types. Also wild to learn that Langston Hughes and Octavia Butler are mostly assumed to be gay despite avoiding that label and romance in their lives. In a more accepting world perhaps they would identify as ace or aro, but we should resist labeling them to suit our needs.
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50% complete! dd has read 6 of 12 books.
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dd reviewed Refusing Compulsory Sexuality by Sherronda J. Brown
dd finished reading Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
dd finished reading Psalms of My People by lenny duncan

Psalms of My People by lenny duncan
If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you have to understand hip-hop. James Baldwin, in his …
dd rated Blades in the Dark: 4 stars
dd replied to Divya Manian's status
@divya I feel like I knew about the whites only gay clubs, but it still feels a way when it's highlighted as such.
dd wants to read A Fish Has No Word for Water by Violet Blue
dd wants to read The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities, #2)
dd rated Spell or High Water: 4 stars

Spell or High Water by Scott Meyer (Magic 2.0, #2)
The adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next step on the journey …
dd rated We are never meeting in real life.: 3 stars
dd reviewed No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco
Maybe don't read your childhood heroes
2 stars
It’s hard to let the TERF-lite bits go to enjoy some of the behind the scenes bits layer into my own history as an Ani fan. Biological essentialism aside, it’s readable, it moves, but jerkily. A lot of it paints in the missing colors but yeah...it’s a bit too 2.5 wave feminism for recommending.
dd rated No Walls and the Recurring Dream: 2 stars
dd rated The Phoenix Project: 3 stars

The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the third book by Gene Kim. …
dd rated Unmasking Autism: 5 stars

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to …