so many good books here wow!! i haven't heard of 'kintu' or 'split tooth' but i really want to check them out. i'm curious to see your thoughts on my brilliant friend!!
Ahh thank you! It's a bit of a simplification for ease, I research Black women's digital intimacy *in* friendships (as opposed to intimacy in romantic relationships). I talk more in-depth about my research in my PhD vlogs if you're curious!
Hi Temi :) I'm a prospective grad student (sociology ma) and watching your channel has been so illuminating! I especially want to say thank you for being vulnerable about your journey with Long Covid. Surviving capitalism with disability is already hard enough and then being disabled in the traditionally ableist institution of academia, especially as a Black woman, can't be easy. As a Black woman who is still masking and taking other pandemic precautions despite the rest of the world dropping community care, I appreciate you <3 I also hope your LC has improved or at least gotten more manageable since you posted. this. Love and solidarity. Also, this is random, but given your area of study: Have you seen Seeking Mavis Beacon? If just came out this month in the US (not sure if they've shown it in the UK?). I think you'd fxck with it heavily!
Hey Sydney! I am so glad you're finding it helpful in some way. It's the entire reason I started a RU-vid channel - to demystify what it can "look like" from my/our PoV. I still have LC but it is more manageable, but existing in captalism is an everyday battle for wellness. You are absolutely right I fucks with Seeking Mavis Beacon! I saw it in Vancouver in May and I got my entire lifeeee!!!
Nada Elia's book is brilliant. It doesn't have so much of the cooperation between different abolition movements, but rather it is advocating for it. The book itself is more focused on the condition of Israeli settler colony and gives in-depth analysis how its existence has been enabled for last 76 years.
@@tèmíkeita Hey back. 😊 Fun fact regarding the author's first name - Nada in Serbian means Hope, which is exactly what I felt while reading the book. Hope is present in Palestinian sumud.
i want to read 'in the dream house' and 'the italy letters' so bad!! and your description of 'giovanni's room' was so great (the sympathy vs. empathy is so real!)
i REALLY like the italy letters!! based on your reading i think you would totally vibe with it. giovanni's room...agree also with you that it's a good intro to Baldwin's voice/style. but everyone in that book had me STRESSED lol
oooh the Italy letters and stay with me were not on my radar until now - adding to my tbr!! “i don’t think we’re team anyone here” in giovanni’s room is soooo real 😭 also absolutely love your glasses!!
@@nikacquah3205 i’m in culture media & creative industries, studying social media behaviour (digital sociologist) and I’m researching digital intimacy!
ooof yeah i’m gonna be reading giovanni’s room (i started but paused to pick up a diff book) & you have me so hyped for stay with me. will def be bumping that and prioritizing before the end of the year. also octavia butler…i must read
I'm so happy you started this! I've been struggling to find book vloggers that don't just read a lot of fantasy, romance, or popular contemporary fiction. I'm starting my PhD also as a mature aged student and I love reading more "academic" type books. I'm really interested to see what you read and recommend.
ooh i hope you'll find some resonance here!! i don't vibe with a lot of booktube because i don't like the readings aha, SO MUCH ROMANCE and YA and Fantasy! What are you doing your PhD on?
Pre-run prep = make sure you’ve eaten like ~2-3h before (I always forget to do this)! And stretch!!!! Maybe this’ll motivate me to go for a run today 🧐!!!
Hiiii! I have no romcoms/romances in my August TBR & I’m sad about it 😭 & might change that! Do u rec the Anne Hathaway adaptation of One Day?! Aaaand I might read that new David Nicholls book now 👀
i really hope i haven't overhyped it to death but it's just a special essay collection! i read it like a ' book' and then realised they were individual essays. you can tell the shift in tone/approach about 2/3rds in. please return when you've read it!!!
doppelganger had a lot going on in it lol - almost too much. i did find her obsession w/ the other naomi to be a bit funny, but also kind of crazy. i really wish she'd gotten an interview w/ her for the book
Congratulations!! I'm an academic Librarian and recently found your videos and have really enjoyed seeing your journey and engaging with your thesis topic(s), thank you for sharing your process! :)
hi there! thank you so much. sorry for the delay - i haven't felt able to youtube in a while but i really appreciate you watching (:. librarians are the best!
i just stumbled on your page and have not been able to stop watching your videos. Thank you for being so honest and vulnerable during your phd journey. Although our academic careers are not identical, it really feels good to see another black woman going through a similar experience. You have a fan all the way in Chicago!
adding some of these to my TBR for research. i just finished reading misogynoir trandformed about a week ago, so good!! i’ve also read digital black feminism a few weeks ago and have a copy of the digital lives of black women in britain. my research is about the black diaspora in digital spaces but struggle with finding perspectives outside of the US. thanks for sharing!
love this! i read a few of these for contextualizing my ideas for my thesis. i'm adding the ones I didn't know about to my TBR 📝 one book that's on my TBR currently is "Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum" which would probably work in tandem with Staying Safe Online by Seyi Akiwowo, so that's dope already.
Your research sounds so damn fascinating! I majored in sociology as an undergrad and it has such a special place in my heart!! I also read What You Are Looking for is in the Library and it really warmed my heart. I was surprised by its depth. ❤
It is so wonderful to see a new video from you, Temi. I really enjoy the combination of pleasure reads and academic/work reads and how how some of them overlap.
Temi! So glad I came across your channel. I also love to read nonfic, esp sociological books! I recently read WINTERING, and it has also helped me to say no! It was such a little treat, and I read it little by little. Adding ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE to my TBR. I read ACE a couple of years ago, and it really opened my eyes to just how much society centers romantic relationships. Excited to read a memoir about this! Carolina De Robertis has been on my TBR for too long! I really wanna read CANTORAS and then read the one you talked about here! Hope you're having a fabu 2024 so far!
oooh hello and welcome! I read soo much nonfic it is hard to stop automatically adding more to my tbr hehe. Wintering is such a special book isn't it? I hope you love Arrangements in Blue, i am utterly obsessed with it - trying to weave it in my thesis somehow LOL. ps your THUMBNAILs are so funky!! love them
Always a pleasure to see your new videos. Of all the books I read in 2023 there was one that left me absolutely speechless. It took me days to process all the emotions I felt while reading it (and yes I cried a lot). It was my first book from an author from Mauritius. The book is called "Riambel" and author is Priya Hein.
Thanks for the review, will definitely check out "Arrangements in blue" and "Hunger". On Roxanne Gay, i remember loving "Hunger" but I didn't vibe well with "Bad feminist" _there was too much reference to American pop culture.
This is interesting!!❤ The terms Intersectionality, Black Feminism, Conceptualization of Black women are all Specific to my Research.... Ardre Lorde, bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins I also read about them...💃💃.....The relevancy is superb 👌
