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writer/performer. dig queer perspectives, eye-opening experiences, and well-crafted plots that keep me on the edge of my seat.
One Hundred Years of Solitude / Cien Años de Soledad. Breathtaking in Spanish, beautiful in English. A mythic journey through so many volumes of collective human pain and love and life and death. The first time I read it (in English), it was extremely difficult to track all the characters, but the effort was worth it to be immersed in such a full, rich portrait of a family. The payoff of the final pages made me appreciate writing and storytelling anew.
There are so many iconic moments: a woman so beautiful that she’s not of this Earth simply floats into the sky one day; a man haunted to madness by the ghost of the man he killed is tied to a tree; incest babies have pig tails; the banana massacre. The book defined a genre with its magical yet realistic style, and it tells the history of a century on a very personal level. Really enjoyable read, every time.
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So screwed up that they decided Affirmative Action on Equal Protection grounds and then pivoted to First Amendment rights to justify this decision.
It’s a constitutional failure in the US that rights can be undermined by the court in this way without any checks.
I found this website really helpful. It rounds up subreddits that existed on Reddit and the places they’ve moved to in the Fediverse.
Is there a buy it for life community here on Lemmy/Kbin yet? If there’s something like that, maybe asking questions here would generate some okay responses. It won’t be as immediate, but it would also help grow the amount of useful info we have in the fediverse.
They’re adding accessibility to some of the subway stations that are big junction points. When it’s complete, it’ll make it just a bit easier for everyone to use the public transit network downtown, and make certain commutes that were extremely inconvenient a bit more accessible. Hope they keep doing this!