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Pottery by Osa<p>I haven’t even been reading much fiction lately, but I’m gonna eat this one up. I love her past work (even though I’m critical of her gender politics.) This interview is delightful.<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-5136636/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-dream-count" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-51366</span><span class="invisible">36/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-dream-count</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nigeria</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a></p>
GeofCox<p>I came to this interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie having only read one of her books (Americanah), but I think my reaction to that novel informed my reading of the interview, and the controversy over her thoughts on trans women, in an interesting way - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/15/cancel-culture-we-should-stop-it-end-of-story-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-backlash-writers-block-and-her-two-new-babies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2025/feb</span><span class="invisible">/15/cancel-culture-we-should-stop-it-end-of-story-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-on-backlash-writers-block-and-her-two-new-babies</span></a></p><p>Although a good book in many ways, for me Americanah had one glaring weakness: Adiche can't write men. When the couple at the centre of Americanah are separated, her in the US and he in the UK, her experience is richly imagined and written - his is thin and unconvincing. Contrast this with, say, Sally Rooney, who seems to be able to imagine her way into the minds of both men and women with equal facility.</p><p>So in a way Adiche's assumption that you can't really be a woman if you've been socialised as a man came as no surprise: it predicates a conclusion about being 'fully' female on the assumption that male-female categories are fundamental. It misses, at the simplest level, the fact that trans women are not treated as men in the same way that men are treated as men, because they are in fact women (inside) being treated as men. At a deeper level, it misses the real complexity of human experience, mistaking a conceptualisation for reality - precisely what other ways of seeing do, but which art shouldn't. At the level of real experience (the novel's true subject) nobody is ever socialised in the same way, because socialisation is always already different in different societies, families, times, etc...</p><p>So there is I think an interesting connection between the rigidity of Adiche's thinking on this and a key limitation of her writing.</p><p>(Before anyone asks, I haven't read Akwaeke Emezi, so can't comment...)</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Americanah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americanah</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SallyRooney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SallyRooney</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/AkwaekeEmezi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AkwaekeEmezi</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a></p>
Andrew Shields<p>Participating in and attending events at the BuchBasel literature festival, 15-17 November 2024. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>111Words</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BuchBasel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuchBasel</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LiteratureFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteratureFestival</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TaylorSwift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaylorSwift</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AnneSauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnneSauer</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SvenjaReiner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SvenjaReiner</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JohnyPitts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnyPitts</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/EddieOtchere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EddieOtchere</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CarolinEmcke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarolinEmcke</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/QueerLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerLife</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RogerRobinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RogerRobinson</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Songs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Songs</span></a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/participating-in-and-attending-events.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">24/11/participating-in-and-attending-events.html</span></a></p>
Andrew Shields<p>Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck” (2009) and xenophobic urban legends about immigrants eating pets and wild animals. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/111Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>111Words</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ShortStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortStory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TheThingAroundYourNeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheThingAroundYourNeck</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/UrbanLegend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanLegend</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/09/chimamanda-ngozi-adichies-thing-around.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewjshields.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">24/09/chimamanda-ngozi-adichies-thing-around.html</span></a></p>
🪷 प्रियंका | Priyanka 🪷<p>The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.<br>I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.</p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/InternationalWomensDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalWomensDay</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/chimamandangoziadichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chimamandangoziadichie</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/happywomensday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>happywomensday</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>love</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/girlpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>girlpower</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a></p>
Ashes and Dust<p>I read 20 books in 2023. Not bad for me, though the effect on my to-read list was negligible. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p>The Lincoln Highway <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AmorTowles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmorTowles</span></a><br>The Diamond Eye <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/KateQuinn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KateQuinn</span></a><br>Underland <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RobertMacFarlane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertMacFarlane</span></a> <br>The Bones of Ruin <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SarahRoughley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SarahRoughley</span></a><br>Anatheism <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/RichardKearney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RichardKearney</span></a> <br>Half of a Yellow Sun <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a><br>Trigger Warning <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/NeilGaiman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeilGaiman</span></a> <br>Nevermore - Neil Gaiman<br>Stardust - Neil Gaiman <br>The Name of the Wind <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PatrickRothfuss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PatrickRothfuss</span></a> <br>A Promised Land <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/BarackObama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarackObama</span></a><br>The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss</p><p>1/2</p>
BBC Radio 4<p>The Reith Lectures archive is an extraordinary resource, with recordings and transcripts to download, going back all the way to the very first lectures, given by philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1948.</p><p><a href="https://bbc.in/3RvcQYw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bbc.in/3RvcQYw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.bbc/tags/ReithLectures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReithLectures</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/JohnReith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnReith</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicService</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radio</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/BertrandRussell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BertrandRussell</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/ChimamandaNgoziAdichie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChimamandaNgoziAdichie</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a> <a href="https://social.bbc/tags/HilaryMantel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HilaryMantel</span></a></p>
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