Adele

The last part on (physical) disability, pride and sexuality is the most personally significant to me and something I wish everyone would get, the parts on environmental issues and class solidarity in the current context are mainly incredibly depressing. Overall a worthwhile read but shows its age and is somewhat all over the place especially considering the brevity (Aurora Levins Morales' introduction promises the world and is pretty good). I would recommend reading this in text form rather than on audio as you're apparently missing out on updated footnotes and the narration isn't the clearest with citations.

In part deeply validating in its grief and fury and love, in part annoying in its desire to claim everything as distinctly BIPOC Autistic/Neurodivergent/Disabled experience (I love the term echotextia though). I'm glad this exists but it wasn't as revolutionary as I'd hoped - I don't feel I got much from this to actually move forward with. I haven't read all of Care Work yet but hope it'll be something I could recommend more broadly to my disabled kin.

I wanted to love this but I also wanted more emotional depth. The central relationship was uncomfortable to read about because of the age difference and because of how much Wylie looks up to Roya. I liked her musings on the cartoon industry though.

D/s is when you call your partner a good boy ✨ 

I'm being generous with the rating because this is an independent effort and there's a lot that spoke to me about the premise. // review to come

Messy. The first half lays out a richly imagined world and characters we need more of in literature, and deserves a higher rating. The second half gets tangled in its own plot threads, introduces an at best unnecessary romance, and misrepresents psychotic illness to an egregious degree, especially considering how carefully and sympathetically other kinds of disabilities are described. The whole of it is beautifully narrated by Cherise Boothe. Deserves a fuller review at a later date.