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You’re Not Ugly (or Broke). You’re Just in Cape Town.
A Tired Black Girl’s Reflections on Beauty, Assimilation, and the Spatial Politics of Belonging in the Cape.
https://kenyaamzee.substack.com/p/youre-not-ugly-or-broke-youre-just

You’re Not Ugly (or Broke). You’re Just in Cape Town:
A Tired Black Girl’s Reflections on Beauty, Assimilation, and the Spatial Politics of Belonging in the Cape.

🙉 A New Anti-Political Fervor
#politics

A New Anti-Political Fervor
How the collapse of political belonging is reshaping democracy.

The new UK leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called "Your Party" after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions
Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with Corbyn,
reignited tensions on Sunday with a blistering attack on those “at the top” of the party
after boycotting the conference’s first day in protest at the expulsion of several members belonging to the Socialist Workers party.
Members meetin…

Just finished "Libertad" by Bessie Flores Zaldívar. An #OwnVoices novel about being queer in Honduras, both personally and politically, that grapples aptly with complicated questions of politics and belonging at a personal scale.
CW for domestic violence and lethal state repression.
It wasn't everything I'd hoped for from the cover, but my hopes weren't exactly reasonable and it *is* very good.
#AmReading #ReadingNow