Vacation, Reading

Just finished "On A Red Station, Drifting," the third of Aliette de Bodard's Xuya universe novellas. I found it quite good (though the sfnal Holmes and Watsonian "Tea Master and the Detective" remains my favorite so far), and like the Xuya universe more than the (also gripping) Acatl works. Very pleased to find many more Xuya tales, links, and more background here. Just started Ann Russo's Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power. Already found usefully pithy and concise this formulation from the Intro: "[F]eminists [must] move from a politics of inclusion (come join us on our terms) or saving (we'll come save you so that you can be more like us) to a politics of accountability (we work in solidarity, recognizing that our lives are interconnected and that we are responsible for the shape of that interconnection)." As intersectional critique (Lorde, Combahee, Haraway) looms ever larger in my critical theory survey it's nice to find ways of weaving the language of violence critique and anti-violence work that I've already been teaching (via Fanon, Arendt, and Judith Butler) for so long right into this pedagogy.