Project “passed” 2025

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You have heard of the 2025 project. Let’s prepare for what I call “pass” 2025 projects.

I won’t be mean to say something here. The first half of this year definitely shocked me at the core. Emotionally. major. The body (?) in some way. What a mess.

If you’ve read/listen to other things I’ve done for Feminist Book Club, then you know I love an educational moment. Deeply study the 19th Amendment? Yes. The intersection of emergency management and feminism? undoubtedly. But this isn’t that kind of post. It’s just me sharing these books and debris, the items that have made me a whole year and why.

I found comfort in unexpected books and podcasts; some subjects differed greatly from my usual bag. I want you to “pass” it on your own and share it with the class in the comments.

Also, none of these are in a particular order.

The burden of burden sharing is halved, and in the community we will have the only way to get this hell landscape. Allons-y!

The Hunger Games Universe

When I see the announcement The harvest sunriseI decided to reread the entire franchise in chronological order. That was…destructive. When the first book The Hunger Games was published, I was 21 years old, George W. Bush (I was going to graduate from college, yes, there was a recession, but, how bad would it be?

(Let us all take a moment to laugh at 21-year-old Natalia.)

aaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyway. Reread the original trilogy and read Songbirds and snakes ballads and The harvest sunrise I saw and noticed a lot of things that resonated with me for the first time. Panem has similarities with the era of American reconstruction. At every critical moment, snow chooses violence, oppression and authoritarianism, even if there is a choice. Katniss is a similar to Rosa Parks and Lucy Gray, playing Claudette Colvin. The idea that all empires fell, but the really fascinating question is what happens back autumn. The entire Mo in Area 13

As a parent, these books occupy another dimension: how real and suffocating the trauma of Astrid was, to a feeling I felt when I was 21 years old. Watch your children grow up and know there is nothing you can do in a world that is determined to make them painful and horror.

I know that some people don’t reread books and see them as pride, but it can never be me. I like to notice different things in each book and understand the perspectives of different characters. It is always good to find new similarities, and good literature never disappoints.

Angry Trilogy

I will be very honest now. I think about the topics of these books at least once a day. Surviving sky and The earth without surrender The author of Kritika H. Rao was held on a boat above the jungle style, in which the last human refugees live in plant-based civilizations that are blended by tradition, technology and arcane science. The story centers on archaeologist Ahilya and is not really respectful, and Iravan is an architect respected for its magical nature. These stories talk about the theme as big as geopolitical instability and caste system and the love of the person you are married to. It becomes brain, especially The earth without surrenderand there is an absolutely pleasant Indian influence that reminds me of what I read Bhagavad Gita Undergraduate. However, the theme of consciousness and reincarnation throughout the book is my view of routine. Everyone is a temporary ship of immortal souls, and you apply things that aim to teach you what helps your spiritual process in this sci-fi way, a fresh air when you are used to reading moral principles or ideas from a Western perspective. I can’t wait to publish my third book later this year!

Wizards, witches and wild – the world beyond numbers

I like audio novels. When I grew up, my mom felt deeply distrust of most media, so my fondest memories are being broadcasted with religious-themed adventures in Odessy. anyway this The show follows three real friends – Suwei (The Witch), Ami (The Witch) and Eursulon (The Wild) – adventures through Umora in their D&D. The storytelling is amazing, the characters are fascinating, but the audio work behind everything is why I sat in the car and sat after the episode ended long after I got home. I cried, laughed, and I snorted- sometimes even in the same episode! Sometimes when you face incredible odds (and some really cursed deaths) you think you’re on the butt and destruction is just around the corner. but! When you get together with friends, you have a great conversation and honey cake that you will kick the oppressive system, hopefully not lost. The performance of “making faith” is pretty good!

Get a tattoo

…I think this is self-evident, the glittering background is me (Graphic design is my passion). Sometimes, you have to get some permanent art. Mine is a firefly, and I picked it impulsively in a flash auction at a local tattoo store. The best way to spend an afternoon and really get out of your mind and get into your body. Because sometimes, people, like I don’t want to admit, you have to feel how you feel.

Romantic books

After the inauguration, I realized that I couldn’t really read my dystopian novels, like I usually do, and at the same time, one of my best friends sent me a copy of Adriana Herrera Tropical rebels get duke. I was tied up after reading it because romance (though I’m not positively opposed to it) is not my usual reading. But it was amazing to find myself hiding nonfiction books that I couldn’t follow, and I opened it. Herrera wrote about Dominican female protagonists? ? ? ? Who is the bad guy? ? ? Who is described and looks like me (*cough* could be 10 years of *cough*)? ? ? I’m obsessed with it. Aurora reminds me of stories I’ve heard about grandmother, a woman without shit and makes sure that the man underestimated her when she ran around them.

I quickly swallowed the rest Leonards Trilogy And start reading romance seriously. I actually found that I had to face some really subtle internalized misogyny about the romantic genre. But if these books have no lifeline during these ridiculous years, please help me. I’ve faced some childhood trauma with Emma Just summerwalk with my anxiety in Rebel Blue Finished and dustedRestored some beliefs in my own sense of self Written on the starsand Stella in Kissing Business. Stretching outside my comfort zone has been enriching and expanding my horizons in the best way (and Libby holds).

Hope this helps someone! Hopefully you find something inspiring and/or get a gummy tattoo and/or find your own way to spend the year.

Natalia Santana is a compliance professional during the day, an activist, students and parents…and a day. Interested in the intersection of activism and education, the joy in her life is taking complex concepts and distilling them into easy-to-understand Twitter rants. Favorite genres: sci-fi, fantasy and non-fiction books.