resolutions to do media stuff in 2023

[highimpactsex]

i figure i should make up a list so i can remind myself what i should read more, though my bucket list has always been pretty dry anyway. and also, i just kinda do random stuff anyway. but i think this is the "important stuff" i want to do the most because they've been bugging me for a while.

games:

• SaGa series
• Ultima
• Black Onyx
• Tower of Druaga
• Phantasy Star series
• Front Mission series
• Library of Ruina
• ASTLibra Revision
• Sekiro
• EXA_PICO
• Blue Reflection Second Light

fiction book and vn stuff:

• Records of Lodoss War
• the works of Tanith Lee
• Black Sheep Town
• Cyanotype Daydream (still doing)
• Symphonic Rain
• Sakura no Toki
• Sweet Pool
• Slow Damage
• Suicide Club
• more josei-muke fiction in general
• more yuri in general
• more sword n sorcery stuff in general
• Fighting Fantasy series
• Native Son
• Flowers series
• Invisible Man
• Kinkoi
• Amazing Mission
• Gideon the Ninth

academic section here, also the rest of the black panther party reading list i haven't read yet:

• the works of Charles Darwin
• the works of John Maynard Keynes
• The Spirit Level
• the works of Peter Linebaugh
• the works of Kohei Saito
• Monopoly Capital
• Labor and Monopoly Capital
• The Intimacies of Four Continents
• the works of Adrienne Rich
• Methodology of the Oppressed
• The Histories of the Transgender Child
• the works of Joanne Barker
• Transit and Empire
• the works of Jasbir Puak
• Transgender Studies Reader
• Disability Studies Reader
• the works of Sara Ahmed
• the Verso Books catalog
• the Duke University Press catalog
• the University of Minnesota Press catalog
• The Queer Child
• disability studies literature
• Susan Stryker's Transgender History
• Angela Davis's autobiography
• Assata's autobiography
• Abolition Geography
• geography stuff in general
• Revolutionary Suicide
• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
• I Speak of Freedom
• The Black Jacobins
• Studies in a Dying Colonialism
• Black Bourgeoisie
• Before the Mayflower
• Black Marxism
• Black Atlantic
• Malcolm X Speaks
• Myth of the Negro Past
• The Strange Career of Jim Crow
• From Slavery to Freedom
• The Lost Cities of Africa
• The Negro in Our History
• The Other America
• Herbert Aptheker's Nat Turner
• Africa's Gift to America
• The Black Muslims in America
• This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed
• Social Reproduction Theory

low priority but it would be nice:

• Armored Core series
• X-COM Classic
• a Paradox Interactive game

i wouldn't mind more recommendations if anyone wants me to check something. to be quite honest, i blasted through a lot of what i wanted this year lol. just writing down this list made me think i don't have much i wanna do lol.

Comments

Autism Book Recs

[ghost_garden988]

I saw that you were interested in reading more disability studies literature. If you're interested in autism, I'd recommend checking out the Autism Industrial Complex by Alicia Broderick or Authoring Autism: on Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Remi Yergeau. Both provide really interesting perspectives on autism, the former from the perspective of political economy and the latter from the perspective of rhetoric and queer theory. Even if they're focused on autism, I'd argue that these books are easily applicable to broader disability theory. Autism has been especially contentious over the past two decades, with the advent of Autism Speaks and the continuation of ABA therapy.

Re: Autism Book Recs

[highimpactsex]

i'm actually reading Authoring Autism and enjoying it quite a lot. it's given me a fresh perspective on queer theory, so i'll make sure to check out the Autism Industrial Complex. i don't mind more recommendations on this myself since i'm dating someone who's autistic and they would love to learn more about these books too.

Re: Autism Book Recs

[ghost_garden988]

Sure!

I'd recommend first of all checking out Mel Baggs's stuff. Sadly, sie has passed away, but their writings on autism and disability more broadly are highly overlooked. I'd recommend checking out hir two blogs and this article on Disability Studies Quarterly:

https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1052/1238

Blog Links:

https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/

(Sadly the blog's format makes it hard to find older articles, but there's still plenty of useful information here)

https://cussinanddiscussin.wordpress.com/

In terms of books, there's a lot. It generally varies in quality, but there's plenty of important writings. Here's some I like, even if I don't always agree with everything they say:

Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone by Douglas Biklen: Sadly, this one isn't too easy to find, but it provides experiences from various autistics who communicate primarily through typing. All of the authors here are really fascinating to hear from, and they break down the common misconception that autism is a single unified experience.

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman: You've probably already heard of this one, but I thought I'd recommend it anyways. It's a useful and accessible account of autism's history, from its inception to where it is currently. I don't think it's perfect, but it's definitely informative.

Asperger's Children by Edith Sheffer: Ever heard of Asperger's Syndrome? This book tells you about Hans Asperger, a child psychiatrist with ties to the Third Reich. His paper on 'autistic psychopathy' (gee, wonder why autistics are said to not have empathy) became influential in the United States through Lorna Wing, but his work has recently become controversial due to his ties to the Nazis.

In Two Worlds by Ido Kedar - This is a novel about a nonverbal autistic boy and his experiences with ABA and other forms of therapy, all of which failed to provide him with a means of communication. Things remained that way until he learns to communicated through facilitated communication.

Women From Another Planet?: Our Lives in the Universe of Autism: Although it subscribes to a binary notion of gender, this anthology contains plenty of fascinating experiences and breaks down the common stereotype of autistic people only being white boys who play with trains.

Re: Autism Book Recs

[highimpactsex]

excellent list, i was already aware of *Asperger's Children* but not *Neurotribes* itself. i've shared it with my partner too. gonna read through the works of mel baggs too since of what i've seen, it's super interesting.