do u have any nonfic or fantasy recs?
yes! in terms of the nexus of nonfic and fantasy , Akwaeke Emezi's Dear Senthuran (cross-reffing your goodreads and I agree, it's heavy and triggering as fuck) and Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars are amazing works of speculative memoir. M.G. Doherty also self-published a remarkable fairytale-memoir that more people should know about, called In the Nucleus [x]!
There's also a brutal, but incredible, book of speculative-historical poems called Zong! by M. NourbeSe Phillip that will....it will change the way you think about Everything. It's about the transatlantic slave trade and not for the faint-hearted.
I don't actually read too much *fantasy* per se, and when I do, it's lower than a fucking limbo bar -- but I can try! Event Factory is in the vein of Invisible Cities. Except waaaay more inspired. Plain Bad Heroines is fun as hell, too.
In the realm of MG/YA fantasy, there have been several good ones recently! I enjoyed Six Crimson Cranes and Daughter of the Moon Goddess,
For speculative poetry: Terese Maison-Pierre's Manifest!
For nonfic, That's Revolting! edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is a great, if a little vintage, collection of radical queer writing. The first edition is the best imo but it's not available anywhere (I actually had to reach out to Mattilda via facebook messenger to get a section to cite lmao).
There's also an academic text my colleague and I have been using a lot in our ongoing work on disorderly eating, counter-community, and social resistance - Kyla Wazana Tompkins's Racial Indigestion. She argues, among other things, for a shift from "critical food studies" to "critical eating studies". It's an amazing book on race, gender, and the politics of consumption.
