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  • Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It Audiobook by Lester Fabian Brathwaite

    Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It Audiobook by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    Sep 10 2024
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    ID: 568844
    Title: Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It
    Author: Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    Narrator: Lester Fabian Brathwaite
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 7:34:23
    Language: English
    Release date: 09-10-2024
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

    Summary:
    A debut book from Entertainment Weekly writer and former Out magazine editor Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rage is a darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality. One romantic hopeful had greeted Lester Fabian Brathwaite on a dating app with this gem: “You into race play?” Being young, queer, gifted, and Black, Lester has found that his best tool for navigating American life is gallows humor. If you don’t laugh, you cry—or, you summon your inner rage. With biting wit, Lester’s book Rage interrogates all the ways that systemic racism and homophobia have shaped our society. All to pose that proverbial question: Can a gurl live? Rage is one part memoir, one part cultural critique, one part live grenade. He contrasts his tragic-comedic love life with the ideals he had formed from bingeing (straight, white) Hollywood depictions. And he is quick to side-eye the misogyny and internalized homophobia that some people reveal in statements like “masc for masc” on dating profiles. Lester also dives deep into representations of queer life from RuPaul’s Drag Race to The Birdcage (Robin Williams was a snack in Versace), and explores our cultural understanding of Black genius through stories of James Baldwin, Whitney Houston, and Nina Simone. Lester’s razor-sharp voice, coupled with his searing social commentary on topics such as dating, rejection, racism, sexuality, identity, and more, offer an increasingly divided world an engaging and original read.

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    7 hrs and 34 mins
  • Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History Audiobook by Nellie Bowles

    Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History Audiobook by Nellie Bowles
    May 14 2024
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    ID: 617640
    Title: Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History
    Author: Nellie Bowles
    Narrator: Nellie Bowles
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:59:30
    Language: English
    Release date: 05-14-2024
    Publisher: Penguin Audio
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Current Affairs, Social Science, Political Ideologies

    Summary:
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected. In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life. Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.

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    7 hrs