Finally finished reading Because Internet by @gretchenmcc - it was so entertaining, especially as an Old Internet Person! Will definitely be getting a copy for the budding linguist in our family.
Next up is The Plant Thieves by Prudence Gibson, which I'm pretty sure J and his mum will end up reading too. Loving it so far.
I used to get confused by Audre Lorde's famous quote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." Being a literal-minded child, I imagined people taking up the tools they use to build things for their masters--hammers, saws, chisels, etc.--it would be quite easy to dismantle a house with those tools.
Then I read "The Half Has Never Been Told" by Edward Baptist. His detailed descriptions of the new technologies invented by slavers to break people and keep the broken made me realize that "the master's tools" were not hammers and saws but rather the whip, the coffle, the police, the laws making aiding escapees a crime, etc.
Loyalty to the state is a master's tool. Punishing "traitors" is a master's tool. Making "sedition" illegal is a master's tool.
June has just finished and we are now into summer. June was a lighter listening month and I managed to listened to 10 titles. Just like last month one of the items I listened to was a new title.
May 2023 is now behind us, and it is the meterological start of summer. May was a busy listening month and I managed to listened to 24 titles, of which only one was a new title.
Does anyone feel like sitting down in front of the computer and playing around with their notes a bit?
I just wrote down how I set up and try to maintain my (academic) reading list in #Obsidian using the #Projects plugin by @marcusolsson and #Zotero. Might post it again after the holidays, but for now, here's the description of my approach for those who asked. Thus, fulfilling my promise from this thread: https://hcommons.social/@natalie/109557676423033978