#Jazmina Barrera

[1libroxsemana]

La reina de espadas

Este es el primer libro que leo de Jazmina Barrera gracias a un club de lectura.

Jazmina te platica la vida y obra de Elena Garro, invitándote a descubrir a esa mística mujer a través de su legado en la literatura y el feminismo en México

This is the first book that I read of Jazmina Barrera thanks to a book club.

Jazmina tells you about the life and work of Elena Garro, inviting you to discover a mystical woman through her legacy in literature and feminism in Mexico

[queerographies]

[Punto croce][Jazmina Barrera]

Jazmina Barrera intreccia le parole per dare vita a una storia in cui trovano posto i legami femminili e la sorellanza; il viaggio come rituale di passaggio e le parole di artiste e scrittrici che hanno riflettuto sull’arte del ricamo.

Mila, Citlali e Dalia sono sempre state unite da un’amicizia indissolubile e dalla comune passione per il ricamo, un’attività che in diverse epoche e culture ha rappresentato per le donne l’oppressione e la libertà, l’arte e l’unica forma di comunità possibile. Quando partono da Città del Messico per l’Europa, sono cariche di aspettative e di promesse: è l’avventura della loro giovinezza, nella…

[kummatty]

"Having been relegated to the category of 'handicraft,' embroidery was saved from the absurd notion of originality that dominates the masculine canon of Western art. The same process can be seen in much literature written by women; we borrow the words of other women to help us express ourselves, or for the sheer pleasure of sharing, repeating, savoring them. We do this without fear or shame, delighting in those words."

—Jazmina Barrera, trans. Christina MacSweeney, Cross Stitch

[embossross]

2023 in books: non-fiction edition

memoirs

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Linea Nigra by Jazmina Barrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Happening by Annie Ernaux (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (⭐⭐⭐)

The Skin Is the Elastic Covering That Encases the Entire Body by BjØrn Rasmussen (⭐⭐⭐)

Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith (⭐⭐)

essays

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Intimations by Zadie Smith (⭐⭐)

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby (⭐⭐)

Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros by Michael Chabon (⭐)

I Don’t Want to Die Poor: Essays by Michael Arceneaux (⭐)

poetry - no ratings because i am a poetry novice lol

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Bread and Circus by Airea Dee Matthews

Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson

Haiti Glass by Lenelle Moïse

Customs: Poems by Salmaz Sharif

The Tradition by Jericho Brown

Something Bright, Then Holes by Maggie Nelson

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral

The Book of Men by Dorianne Laux

Our Rarer Monsters by Noel Sloboda

Other

Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction by Patrick Gardiner (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Great Derangement: Climate and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson (⭐⭐⭐)

Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton (⭐⭐⭐)

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan (⭐⭐⭐)

Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Sorell (⭐⭐⭐)

Tokyo: A Biography by Stephen Mansfield (⭐⭐)

[forthegothicheroine]

I saw your tag asking for book recs about lighthouses—if you haven't read "On Lighthouses" by Jazmina Barrera Velázquez, you might enjoy it; it's definitely not a Christian inspirational thing, and it talks about some really interesting elements of historical lighthouse culture, blended with personal reflection!

Oh, thank you, I'll look for that!

[mimalacabezayyo]

Rozsika Parker explica las contradicciones del bordado, que sirve a la vez como fuente de placer y de poder para las mujeres "aun estando indisolublemente ligado a su falta de poder".

Punto de cruz. Jazmina Barrera.

[midoreella]

15 de mayo de 2024 hoy estoy a justamente 10 días para mi cumpleaños diescisiete. estuve leyendo las últimas horas a Jazmina Barrera y su experiencia de tener un hijo en su libro Linea nigra. Estoy enganchada a su relato sobre ser mamá, y yo misma estoy pensando en si algún día llegaré o no a ser madre, ya no aborrezco tanto esa idea como a mis trece, tal vez porque estoy enamorada, tal vez porque quiera vivir la experiencia de crear vida, no solo en versos, sino en carne propia, desde mis células. también mi mejor amiga me platicó sobre su lectura actual, Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño, y esa forma que tiene de interpretar la obra, de escribir en el libro y de explicármela con tanta pasión es impresionante, definitivamente quiero leer ese libro. y también, mi novio acabó finalmente la novela que le presté hace 4 meses, La trompetilla acústica de Leonora Carrington, la leyó en 4 días divididos en 4 meses :)

[impossiblelibrary]

"If I write everything that I think, I'll be able to stop thinking. That's what I believe. What I hope."

-- Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra

[bookjubilee]

Book Review: ‘Cross-Stitch,’ by Jazmina Barrera

bookjubilee.com http://dlvr.it/SyMxMl

[anniekoh]

Some people like gazing into wells. That gives me vertigo. But with lighthouses, I stop thinking about myself. I move through space to remote places. I also move through time, toward a past that I'm aware I idealize, when solitude was easier. And in moving back in time I distance myself from the tastes of my own age, when lighthouses are linked with unfashionable adjectives like romantic and sublime. It's difficult to talk about the topic generally associated with lighthouses: solitude, madness. Those of us who try have no option but to accept ourselves as quaint. If I focus my attention on myself, the pain is magnified. On the other hand, when I think of myself in relation to a lighthouse, I feel brand new and so tiny that I almost vanish.

Jazmina Barrera, On Lighthouses. Translated by Christina McSweeney.

[skylightbooks]

ELISA’S HOLIDAY CATALOG PICKS!

ALL ABOUT LOVE: NEW VISIONS by bell hooks

It’s the end of 2022. If you haven’t read this yet, do it.

LINEA NIGRA by Jazmina Barrera; translated by Christina MacSweeney

Easily the loveliest book on pregnancy and motherhood that I have ever read. This memoir by Jazmina Barrera is a literary collage of poems, quotes, and essays the author read and engaged with while breastfeeding her child. Barrera’s writing reminds us that pregnancy and birth are universal topics and her book should ultimately be read by everyone.

GOOD NIGHT, LITTLE BOOKSTORE by Amy Cherrix; illustrated by E. B. Goodale

This short story is the perfect shot of melatonin for kids before bed. The methodical closing of a local community bookstore makes for a very soothing lullaby as you turn each page and say good night to all the books, the cat, and of course the wonderful bookstore staff.

I WANT TO BE A VASE by Julio Torres; illustrated by Julian Glander

This book by Los Espookys co-creator Julio Torres and 3D animator Julian Glander is my favorite book of 2022. This bright, colorful story about a plunger that wants to become a vase is an exciting departure from traditional children’s books, which tend to promote the ideas of individuality and success. This story encourages children to seek out whatever’s best for themselves, while also finding a meaningful way to contribute to the larger community around them.

[whilereadingandwalking]

In On Lighthouses, this memoir-of-sorts by Jazmima Barrera and translated by Christina MacSweeney, the author describes her “collection” of lighthouses: the buildings she’s visited, researched, read about, and considered. She visits the Montauk Lighthouse after a day stuck in traffic; she talks to the children of lighthouse keepers; she analyzes literary work by Virginia Woolf and Edgar Allan Poe. 

What do lighthouses stand for, both in history and in our collective consciousness? Barrera digs in, linking her reflections to her fears and loneliness, her experience living in a city, and the way she looks for a guide in the form of a vacillating light across the waves. 

Get more recs for Mexican literature in my list for Book Riot!

Content warnings for mentions of murder, violence, rape, suicide, animal death.

[kummatty]

I put together a little reading list for break bc there's soooo much I want and need to read, its obviously too long and subject to the whims of my brain but some of it will be read;

cross stitch, jazmina barrera trans. christina mcsweeney

out of the sugar factory, dorothee elmiger trans. megan ewing

brotherless night, v.v. ganeshananthan

a mercy, toni morrison

happy stories, mostly, norman erikson pasaribu trans. tiffany tsao

gate of the sun, elias khoury

after the last sky: palestinian lives, edward said

discourse on colonialism, aimé césaire trans. joan pinkham

necropolitics, achille mbembe

securing paradise: tourism and militarism in hawai'i and the philippenes, vernadette vicuña gonzalez

the jakarta method: washington's anticommunist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world, vincent bevins

partitioning palestine: british policymaking at the end of empire, penny sinanoglou

maroon nation: a history of revolutionary haiti, johnhenry gonzalez

in theory: classes, nations, literatures, aijaz ahmad

jungle passports: fences, mobility, and citizenship at the northeast india-bangladesh border, malini sur

finally got the news: the printed legacy of the u.s. radical left, 1970–1979, ed. brad duncan

[belisaurie]

En Oaxaca, los chinantecos, mixtecos, chatinos y triquis comparten la trama principal de un mito, que deriva en parte del Popol Vuh de los mayas quichés de Guatemala y de la Leyenda de los soles. Se trata de una tejedora (la señora tepezcuintle para los chinantecos), esposa de un venado, que adopta o concibe unos gemelos. En algunas versiones se embaraza mientras teje y luego, embarazada, teje las distintas capas del cielo en su telar. Los gemelos que nacen de ella serán Sol y Luna, y tendrán muchas aventuras. Entre ellas, matan a un monstruo de ojos brillantes, ahorcándolo con un hilo o con un ceñidor de tejido. Luego arroja una bola de hilo al cielo y así inauguran el tiempo, y trepan entonces por el cabo suelto. También violan a una señora, que los maldice y les avienta palos de tejer –la cara de la luna queda marcada por esos palos–. La señora, furiosa, tira entonces su tejido ensangrentado sobre la tierra y desde entonces las mujeres deben menstruar.

—Jazmina Barrera en Punto de Cruz.

[librosclases]

Al ser relegado a la categoría de "manualidad" o "artesanía", el bordado se salvó de la ridícula idea de originalidad que rige el canon masculino del arte occidental. Pasa lo mismo en mucha literatura escrita por mujeres para que nos ayuden a expresarnos o por el puro gusto de compartirlas, repetirlas y saborearlas. Lo hacemos sin miedo, sin vergüenza, gozándolo.

Jazmina Barrera. Punto de Cruz.

[mimalacabezayyo]

Hay algo en los tejidos. En cómo se componen y se recomponen, se ordenan, se regeneran, se reúnen y se cosen. En ellos hay que buscar respuestas.

Punto de cruz. Jazmina Barrera.