Banned Books Week is September 29 through October 6. You can find an online catalogue of banned and challenged books at The Forbidden Library, either arranged by title or by author. Or you can head over to your own public library. My city library has a display devoting several shelves to banned and challenged books. [...]

One of the seven books I’m reading right now is Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, edited by Jaggar and Bordo (1989). If you like feminist theory, cultural studies, and philosophy, this text is for you. I’m juggling other books at the same time, so I’m only near the end of the first essay, [...]

Last week I signed up to be a volunteer proofreader for Project Gutenberg (PG). PG was founded in 1971 by Michael Hart with the mission of “encouraging the creation and distribution of ebooks”. The goals are to create a digital library of electronic texts that are (relatively [there are operating costs]) free, easily accessible via [...]

For my queer theory class we are reading Trumpet: A Novel (1998) by Jackie Kay. A poet, this was Kay’s first novel, based loosely upon the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and began to read it. When I put it down an hour or so later, I was [...]

I sat down to do a bit of homework and started reading Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives, thinking I’d get some reading done now and have less to do later next week or worse, over Spring Break. An hour and a half later I’ve finished the book and all I can think is, Fuck you, [...]