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Aliette de Boddard is next on my TBR list, I've been looking forward to that for a while now. I read the colonial article with huge interest, because, being Irish, colonialism isn't something abstract to my history. And yet, being white, Irish people escaped some of the racial impact, not at the time, I don't think, but now Irish is white, whereas a few generations ago it wasn't.
Which makes me really angry at Irish people who fail to see just how similar their own history is to the Syrian refugees, for example, and fail to recognise their own racism. I mean we are all racist, we live in a racist world and a racist society, but at least if we begin to acknowledge that fact we can maybe do something to address some of those issues.

Also, everyone should add Jane Eyre's Sisters by Jody Gentian Bower to their TBR lists, so much good stuff there about literature and feminism and all that good stuff.