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forthwritten ([personal profile] forthwritten) wrote2015-08-14 01:11 am
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things I have been reading recently

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

John Hersey - Hiroshima - long but definitive read on suvivors' immediate experiences
Vibeke Venema - When time stood still: A Hiroshima survivor's story
Paul Ham - The Bureaucrats Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Destruction
Sarah Stillman - Hiroshima and the inheritance of trauma
David Samuels - Atomic John
Daniel Cordle - Hiroshima’s literary legacy: the ‘blinding flash’ that changed the world forever

Amnesty International and sex work

Alison Phipps - 'Disappearing' sex workers in the Amnesty International debate
jemima2013 - Invisible women

Other things

[CW: medical; explicit details of late stage cancer] Yasmin Nair - Gay marriage hurts my breasts
Gita Jackson - What a book about British wizards taught me about American blackness
Tansy Hoskins - How the Jack the Ripper industry distorts London's East End - being the child of a forensic psychiatrist I have read fairly widely on historical murder, crime and forensics; my opinion is that the Identity Of Jack The Ripper is the least interesting issue here (if I had to come up with some sort of Thing on Jack the Ripper, it would be contrasting historical forensics with present day and possibly near-future forensics). Would much rather see a museum about East End women's experiences ofc.

Other things

Alicorn - Double, double - what happens if a child is promised to not one, but two witches?
What happens if a Slytherin competed in the Triwizard Tournament
A favourite trope

*reluctantly takes out tiny pistol, drops it and sighs*