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finktank

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Joined 2 years, 5 months ago

Exploring and supporting Community Informatics and Youth Power for just futures.

Loving hard sci-fi, queer & BIPOC-authored sci-fi, abolition and abolitionist futures, Afrofuturism, Solarpunk, cooperativism, pedagogy, social change.

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2024 Reading Goal

84% complete! finktank has read 38 of 45 books.

Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1) (2017) 4 stars

Only took nearly the whole year. Like many KSR books, it took work to get through. I can't decide if the work was worth it, but there's a tremendous amount in it. An exploration of the possibilities of Utopian political economy, starting afresh on a new plan, but in a constant dialectic with the past in the present - a desperate Earth. Just read Frederic Jameson's "An American Utopia" which references this old series. I wonder if I'll make it through the other two.

finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Becky Chambers: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Hardcover, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 5 stars

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …