JANUARY

3^rd – Approaching Babalon: Essays for the Abyss by Georga van Raalte

One of the best works on Babalon & Babalon veneration that’s fitting much more into a feminist canon than any works by Crowley and his ilk. Certainly not flawless, a lot of parts slip into doomerism but all things considered it could be worse in those parts.

4^th - Monas Heiroglyphica by John Dee

Cheers bro I’ll drink to all that.

FEBRUARY

1^st – Prehistoric Sites in Cornwall by John Michell

Light speculative archaeology combined with megalithomania. Kinda cool? Very touristy.

8^th – Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought by Catherine Malabou (translated by Carolyn Shread)

Did a lot of good work dislocating the clitoris from exclusive womanhood and wrote more than a few pages on trans identity and it’s relation to it. Also spilled a lot of ink defending radical feminist writings from being “outdated”. It’s okay to acknowledge they were the first to philosophies on the clitoris to the extent that men philosophers did about the phallus. You don’t need to treat them as free from all criticism because they did so.

27^th – Make Rojava Green Again: Building an Ecological Society by the Internationalist Commune of Rojava

Common Rojava Commune Win. Super recommend to read just to get ecological grounding outside of the western bubble a lot of left wing folks end up in when they live in Europe & the USA/North America at large.

28^th – The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes

READ THIS BOOK IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHY UK LAND POLITICS ARE HOW THEY ARE. Covers the enclosures, trespass, persecution of travellers of all kinds, covers the persecution and alignment of romani & adjacent folks. Covers the imbalance between aristocracy & commoners. Covers the vast amounts of wealth extracted from slave labour in the Caribbean & USA. Talks about the dislocation of people from it’s land. Talks about industrialisation ripping land away from the commons for private use. Absolutely outstanding.

MARCH

1^st - Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (translated by Marjam Idriss)

A solid piss : rot ratio. Weird fiction at its finest and most fleshy.

2^nd – The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

The man the moth the legend. Been on my reading list for a long while but finally sat down and read it in a month. Gives a much better and well rounded look at the phenomena leading up to, surrounding, and following on from the original Mothman sightings. Would for sure recommend to anyone wanting to cut through ‘fanon’ mothman stuff to the OG sighting & fortean event!

6^th – The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Harm, Ending State Violence by Judith Levine & Erica R. Meiners

Hated this mostly with some redeeming qualities. Abolitionist perspectives are important but this lacked so much input from survivors on all fronts. I go into detail about it here, with obvious content warnings for discussion of rape, sex assault, inappropriate contact with minors, + similar. Obviously would ask that only 18+ folks click through because of the subject matter. → google doc

11^th - Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation by Sophie Lewis

Honestly fucked supremely! Framed a lot of my points and contentions with both the family as an institution, talking point, morality cop and with the idea that all close knit groups need to adhere to a family model (found family for example). Definitely recommend for anyone curious in modes of life beyond the white cisheteropatriarchal nuclear family.

13^th – What About The Rapists

This is everything The Feminist and the Sex Offender lacked, if you’re an anarchist that wants a good primer on tackling non-carceral approaches to harm this is the one. It’s up for free online >> here <<.