#memoirs — Public Fediverse posts

Still reeling from Dolly Parton, we're mourning another great loss: Tim Curry who gave his face & voice to so many great roles
If you want to honour his life by learning more about his achievements, check out his #memoir "Vagabond" here: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1939735882

#autobiography #memoirs #TimCurry

Deepest dive yet w/ author/illustrator #MollyCrabapple about her book #HereWhereWeLiveIsOurCountry: The Story of the #JewishBund. A sprawling 2-part interview on Daniel Denvir's excellent #TheDigRadio

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/making-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/destruction-of-the-jewish-bund-w-molly-crabapple/

catch her live in Brooklyn on Oct 11 (in person/virtual) https://jewishcurrents.org/live

#Bund #bundism #JewishLabourBund #JewishHistory #JewishLeft #antizionism #antifascism #Holocaust #Poland #WarsawGhettoUprising #Palestine #memoirs #books @bookstodon

Despite the starvation and genocide to which the children of #Gaza are subjected—and without ever having attended school—their character and dignity shine through in these moments. #Memoirs of a genocide survivor and a real-life human testimony. https://chuffed.org/project/177144
https://www.journeyman.cc/layan/
#Gaza #GazaChildren #SaveGaza #StandWithGaza #EndTheGenocide #StopStarvingGaza #CeasefireNow #ProtectChildren #HumanRights #HumanityFirst #VoicesFromGaza #NeverAgain #JusticeForPalestine #FreePalestine

AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF MEMOIR: a writer's unflinching examination of her childhood sexual abuse by her stepfather, who (unusually) faced legal consequences. Broader connections to literature and history add dimension. SOLID A

https://bookshop.org/p/books/sad-tiger-neige-sinno/bd8bc13ebb8aeed9?ean=9781644214671&next=t

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Gemma Correll’s Anxietyland: a graphic anxiety memoir

Popular and hilarious web cartoonist and illustrator Gemma Correll has just released a new graphic novel about her…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #Anxiety #AU #Australia #Books #Cartoonists #Cartoons #Comics #depression #graphicnovels #Health #memoirs #MentalHealth
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/637595/

CANDID FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNTS from LGBTQAI2S people who experienced conversion “therapy” are infuriating, heartbreaking, sometimes witty, always inspiring. Thoughtfully curated and respectfully presented, this is an important collection.

https://us.jkp.com/products/shamesex-attraction

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(no letter grade; that felt inappropriate for a collection of such personal work)

UNSPARINGLY CANDID, THOUGHTFUL memoir offers a kaleidoscopic look at the pain and soul-searching a writer experiences from her mother’s weaponized “silent treatment.” Multivocal, poetic narrative is powerfully on point. B PLUS

https://tinhouse.com/book/a-silent-treatment/

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FEARLESS, POETIC MEMOIR from a Cree, Salish, and Métis writer tells the story not only of her own traumatic family history, but of the brutal generational oppressions that cast painful shadows in too many Indigenous lives. B PLUS

https://houseofanansi.com/collections/new-releases/products/soft-as-bones

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'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

Terry Tempest Williams offers an intimate portrait of national parks in her memoir The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks. She guides readers on a reverential tour of parks, revealing the meanings these places have etched in her memory and experience. Family, beauty, creativity, a care for land all rank highly in the values she finds in national parks.

#BooksWorthReading #memoirs #NationalParks #TerryTempestWilliams #Mormons #Mormonism