JOMP Book Photo Challenge || October 11 || Diversity:
Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
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Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
Today's sapphic book of the day is Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear!
Summary: "'You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me.'
Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered.
Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science."
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Rereading Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
It's not The Locked Tomb.... but it understands that sometimes a reader wants a big queer adventure with a teenage girl narrator who is clearly trying her best and and is funny and informal in a strange world with crazy astetic and a cast of BAMF
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It's been 2 years since I've seen this and today I'm returning back to my comfort superhero series or maybe I have to clarify that (daredevil) is one of the greatest superhero show in that Marvel had ever created... And today Iam here beginning the journey again tbh the aesthetics of this show are out of the world .. and I really miss this trio ..
Thankyou
Nelson and Murdock attorneys at law .
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And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast….Their art itself is nothing but the attempt to catch by all means the one particular moment, one light, the momentary beauty of one woman or one flower, and make it everlasting.
― Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales (Vintage, April 13, 2011) (via Wait! What?)
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Someone teach her about lesbianism
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for people to say that young Jewish people breaking down out of fear (even fear that's not justified) is the same thing as white tears is despicable. did you all fucking forget about the Holocaust? why do you think a young Jewish person who's been told Zionism is the answer to antisemitism their whole life and that Hamas wants to kill them might react with fear? just use your fucking brains for One Singular Minute.
the answer to Zionism in Jewish communities is not the same as the answer to racism. telling Jewish Zionist people, who have been raised around people who suffered a genocide, who have this severe intergenerational trauma within living memory, that they are the same as a random white Christian American when they have a trauma response to something they've been told is an existential threat is not fucking helpful. in fact, it's only going to cement their Zionism.
do you actually want to eradicate Zionism in Jewish communities? start by acknowledging that antisemitism is real, still happening, and deadly. until you can do that, most Jewish Zionists are not going to be receptive to you. if you can't do that, I suggest leaving that work to Jewish antizionists and devoting your energy to political actions that will help Palestine, like calling your reps, protesting, and continuing to raise awareness about the situation on the ground there.
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Rereading Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear
It's not The Locked Tomb.... but it understands that sometimes a reader wants a big queer adventure with a teenage girl narrator who is clearly trying her best and and is funny and informal in a strange world with crazy astetic and a cast of BAMF
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Actually ted is blonde in tfs because it was a body snatch situation re s3 billy but with edward shenanigans i csnt explain how or why excecpt that it would make tedkaren insane. I have not watched tfs. You agree.
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