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Oh, en Comstock en Tubman zijn blijkbaar echt levende personen? Oeps. Ik heb het gevoel dat je voor dit boek iets van Amerikaanse geschiedenis moet weten.

Ik weet nog niet of ik dit wel goed vind. Interessant concept, maar te veel Mannen versus Vrouwen.

it's crazy that like. berenice has absolutely no characterization other than 'was murdered' and 'enid's girlfriend'. the chapter with enid going back and saving her 100% should've been from berenice's perspective, so she's not just a cardboard cut out to prop up the story

like is there one character of color that isn't just a prop for tess or beth? like just one. even anita here is just used as a soundboard for tess to be able to voice her concerns about the machine, and then the rest of the scene is devoted to "venting about politics with Anita".

alskfdj sorry it's just so funny to me that this 'hardcore anarchist chicana' band's strongest message is 'go to the polls :)'. god.

the idk... white fragility manifests in this writing so blatantly in that when the white MCs are put in the same room as characters of color they have to be shown to be Better or in trivial moments, the MC puts on a show of lamenting being white. "[...] listening to the girls behind us move between Spanish and English [...] Suddenly I could hear my suburban white girl accent clearly. [...] I felt like an interloper."

(spoilers) tess and beth being the same person..... god. this book. UGH!

(spoilers, cw pedophilia, eye gore) not sure how well it settles w me that heather (implied turkish/arab thru her cousin hamid) and soojin (korean) are portrayed as the ones super into the fact that they murdered their pedophile teacher, while beth (white) miserably laments the morality of committing murder, when she was the one that dug her fingers into his eyes and ultimately killed him

(spoilers) oh thank god they saved her. at the very least that's something redeemable about the book, though there was NO need to start the novel off by killing her

annoyed w this book's constant assertion that violence is bad when returned to oppressors. (spoilers) you have this literal transphobic serial killer kidnapping trans women to kill them and enid, who isn't even a MC, still goes :/ idk how i feel about *murder* though....

(spoilers, cw transmisogyny) 86 pages later we finally follow up to the fact that the only introduced trans woman was murdered........

how is newitz not at all aware that the feminism they criticize is the exact same they employ by having a white woman speak for several brown maghrebi women....

i haven't taken so many notes on a book since high school. i'm screaming w my mouth shut. "I needed something that would lead them gently away from that Great Moments in White Feminism playbook. If they met Aseel and Salina and the others, they might find it harder to team up with Comstock to destroy their sisters on the Midway. What would appeal to these women?" what kinda white savior bullshit...