Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye My rating: 3 of 5 stars Three abrasively unpleasant stories snagged on overlapping locations, like Khady’s torn leg and torn ear, snagged and then torn loose by impersonal brutality, a world that wounds. NDiaye’s style reminded me of other extremely ‘interior’ texts, in particular The Hour of the Star.… Continue reading Three torments
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I was a child, I occasionally watched a TV show, familiar to most British people of my generation, about two puppets who lived on a canal barge called Ragdoll, which seemed homely, safe and jolly. Most people only set foot on a boat for… Continue reading Folk of the River
I entirely agree with you that the post is an example of ‘gender panic’ as described by Schilt, but I’m not sure about calling the gender abolitionist faction conservative since they generally tend leftward, want to redress assymmetrical power relationships and advocate a kind of gender revolution. I consider myself generally radical rather than liberal… Continue reading A Generous Orthodoxy For Feminism – Or Why This Issue With ‘Cis’ MUST Be Resolved.
(I am because you are) 