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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Ryka Aoki﹒

Two Books Written By this Author:

Light from Uncommon Stars

He Mele A Hilo

Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul

Seasonal Velocities

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Fiction(ish)

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Paris, When It's Naked, Etel Adnan

Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill

My Sister, The Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite

Possession, A.S. Byatt

Cat's Eye, Margaret Atwood

The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney

The Doll's Alphabet, Camilla Grudova

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The People in the Room, Norah Lange

Água Viva, Clarice Lispector

Collected Stories, Clarice Lispector

The Empty Book, Josefina Vicens

Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

The Waves and Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Non-Fiction:

Second-hand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

Bluets, Maggie Nelson

Living, Thinking, Looking, Siri Hustvedt

Feel Free: Essays, Zadie Smith

The Need for Roots, Simone Weil

Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg

An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Little Weirds, Jenny Slate

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Women Who Run with Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Journal of a Solitude, May Sarton

Poetry:

The War Works Hard, Dunya Mikhail

Barefoot Souls and A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor, Maram al-Masri

Tell Me and Wild Nights, Kim Addonizio

What the Living Do, Marie Howe

What We Carry, Dorianne Laux

Extracting the Stone of Madness, Alejandra Pizarnik

Poppies in Translation, Sujata Bhatt

The Neverfield: A Poem, Nathalie Handal

Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women

View with a Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska

Alligator & Other Stories, Dima Alzayat (everyone & their mother read this please)

They: A Sequence of Unease, Kay Dick

Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link

The Lonely City, Olivia Laing

The Fourth Island, Sarah Tolmie

On Photography, Susan Sontag

The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories, Angela Carter

The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter

My Brilliant Friend, ElenaFerrante

Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels

The Second Sex, Simone De Beavouir

Vindication Of The Rights Of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft

The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer

Feminine Mystique, Betty Freidan

Frankenstein, Mary Shelly

Mysteries Of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe

The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice

The Yellow Wallpaper And Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

14 Days, Margaret Atwood

Handmaiden's Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Testament, Margaret Atwood

Rebecca, Daphne De Maurier

Freshman's Creek Daphne De Maurier

The Vegetarian, Han Kang

Scum Manifesto, Valerie Solanas

Lives Not Lived, Monica Bhatti

Independence, Chitra Devakurni

A Palace Of Illusions, Chitra Devakurni

Queen Of Spices, Chitra Devakurni

The Robber's Bride, Margaret Atwood

White Malice, Susan Williams

Complete Poems, Emily Bronte

Complete Poems, Elizabeth Barett Browning

Tender Is The Flesh, Sarah Moses

Paradise, Toni Morrison

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Persuasion, Jane Austen

All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir

Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte

Kim Jiyoung Born 1982, Cho Nam Joo

The Water Cure, Sophie Mackintosh

I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Path

The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Path, Sylvia Path

Azaadi, Arundhati Roy

The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman

The Poppy Trilogy, R.F. Kuang

Babel: An Arcane History, R.F. Kuang

If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

The Sati Series, Koral Das Gupta

Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barett Browning

Lajja, Tasleema Nasrin

Short Stories, Ismant Chugtai

Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell

The Phoenix King, Aparna Verma

Little Women: With Good Wives, Louisa May Alcott

The Song Of Achilles, Madeline Miller

The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert

The Hindus, Wendy Doniger

Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung

Capitalism: An Unknown Ideal, Ayn Rand

The Underground Girls Of Kabul, Jenny Nordberg

Women, Fire And Dangerous Things, Robin Lakoff

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

White Is For Witching, Helen Oyeyemi

Villain Series, V.E. Schwab

The Feminine Macabre, Don't know the writer

Iron Curtain, Anne Applebaum

The Unwomanly Face Of War, Svetlana Alexievich

The Dark Queens, Shelley Puhak

Ice, Anna Kavan

The Royal Art Of Poison, Eleanor Herman

The Temple Is NOT My Father, Rasana Atreya

Beasts, Joyce Carol Oats

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Yukio Mishima

The Last Flight, Julie Clark

Swan Theives, Elizabeth Kostova

The Italian, Ann Radcliffe

Revenge, Yoko Ogawa

Bad Behaviour, Mary Gaitskill

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Forbidden Colors, Yukio Mishima

Thirst For Love, Yukio Mishima

Sister Outsider, Audrey Lorde

Iron Widow Series, Xiran Jay Zhao

That's it?

I will add on more if I remember....

You're not bad for feeling that way. You're not bad for wanting to be special or recognized for a skillset you're working on or part of a collective where you're treasured and important. You're not bad for wanting that connection.

That being said, it's not going to happen in the way you think or necessarily want. Chances are, you won't have super adoring fans all over the globe who are just hooked to your every word.

Instead, it might look like this:

Kudos from living, human beings who don't want to or can't comment, but they want to encourage you in their small way.

Comments from a small but dedicated group of friends. One or two people who stick with you for a time and just enjoy what your individual mind has spun this time.

You reading your friends' fanfictions and offering them that same connection in turn. Enjoying the infodumping and passionate explanation that may follow.

Posting a fanfiction and watching for a while as no one finds it, being disheartened, and leaving it behind. Then, a few years later, finding it again and not quite remembering what you wrote. Reading it and realizing that this fic was made for you, and loving your past self for creating something you enjoy so much.

A random person on the internet who will absolutely come onto your story just to dump constructive criticism. You may feel bad for a while, angry and hurt that someone would attack your labor of love in this way, and you will have to decide how to deal with that.

When we write fanfic, we add to the community in our own way. Sometimes we find our people. Sometimes we find out that we're our own people. We want to find our people, and most of us dream of finding a lot of those people, we we hope that many of them will love us and respect us and be amazed by what we can contribute. We wanna feel special, seen, heard, and loved. It probably won't happen on a big scale, but please, please, please, please don't dismiss the small-scale effect you have on the community around you.

You may not make it big, but you will make it. Don't dismiss that.

Sincerely,

TERRIBLE INFLUENCE

(Twitter : @cowboy_kate)

Here's how to increase someone's reading level:

1) Let them read whatever they choose without shame or judgment. Maybe get them talking about it using open-ended, non-leading questions to encourage critical thinking and comprehension.

2) Let them get bored after a while and seek out different books.

I see this so often. My job is to teach and explain things, sure. My style is to always explain my thought process and not shame for asking questions because, on the flip side

I am always so. Damn. Confused. About everything. And when I was younger and hadn't quite gone through the hellfire that asking questions can bring (I've seen so many people make snap judgements about me due to my plain ignorance and idioticy), I STILL felt the condescension. The power balance. The "Oh you sweet summer baby. Dw, I'm here to save you from your ignorace." It was honestly either that you "you fucking moron, how do you not know something so intrinsic? So basic? Attention seeking, thoughtless, ignorant bitch."

Like??? It took me a while to realize there's an alternative??? And it's??? Fucking empathy???? Why doesn't this person know the thing? In what ways can I make the concept clear for them while also giving them the respect that is inherent to their personhood???

Under the LGBTQ section where it talks about “searching your body to identify your gender”

Your parents not using tiktok/not being good with the internet in general does not mean you're safe from them finding your videos. I have a cousin who posted about her mom's abuse on tiktok and that video was recommended to a family friend who showed it to her mom.

Your videos could be seen by a classmate who tells their parents who tells your parents. They could be seen by a teacher who calls your parent about them. They could be seen by one of your parents' coworkers or your cousins or your siblings or one of your neighbors or a hundred other people who could eventually lead it to your parents somehow.

Do not attach your face to this shit. Do not share any identifying information. Tiktok specifically reocmmends videos based on location, your phone contacts, and any other social media you're connected to. Your videos will reach someone you don't want seeing them, even if you turn off location settings.

How tiktok uses your location, even when you turn it off.