love translated fiction but it would be an absolute dream to understand works in their original language! like imagine reading elena ferrante in italian, clarice lispector in portugese, and stefan zweig in german?
i want to read clarice lispector, but i haven’t finished natalia ginzburg’s book, but i have to explore more of magda szabo and annie ernaux’s works, but i need to finish ferrante and didion’s bibliography, but i need to explore new european literature but—
the dumbest theory surrounding elena ferrante’s true identity would be the assumption that a man could even understand the female experience enough to write it the way ferrante did
Black folks who root for coloniser countries against African countries are strange
I don’t care if you are Portuguese Angolan or British Ghanaian
You should root for every single (Black) African country
Chicas no todas pueden tener la Dyson, el mismo marco de miu miu, las uñas pintadas igual, querer el mismo café con 29 términos raros en inglés, alguna tiene que tener que tener una personalidad no sacada de TikTok. Por favor.
It’s sooo weird watching people describe 40 degree temperatures in Europe as an unimaginable future when tens of millions across Sudan & other parts of the Global South are already living it + with limited infrastructure, 12+ hour power cuts and barely any global attention
the goal is to be like Dua Lipa (good at what she does, pursuing her passion, rich, well read, always travelling and exploring new cultures, fashionable, promoting the arts, multilingual, politically aware)