Although ær world is restricted to what æ can see and experience through the Gleaming, Anima takes pride and comfort in keeping Ora safe from all harm.Īll that changes when a mysterious visitor enters the city carrying a cabinet of curiosities from around the world, with a story attached to each item.

Anima is one of the cloistered extrasensory humans tasked with watching over Ora's citizens. The city of Ora uses a complex living network called the Gleaming to surveil its inhabitants and maintain harmony. In the Watchful City explores borders, power, diaspora, and transformation in an Asian-inspired mosaic novella that melds the futurism of Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station with the magical wonder of Catherynne M. Representation: Asian-coded cast, Nonbinary MCs who use neopronouns, disabled trans PoV character, sapphic PoV character, F/F or wlw Genres: Queer Protagonists, Science Fantasy We do not exist to convince anyone of this but to discuss the nuances and individual issues presented by the literature we read.Īll fantastic name credit goes to Chelsea.

Gender equality is at the heart of this book club so please recognise this in your behaviour. Please use #feministorchestra on twitter, instagram and elsewhere so we can all share our posts, thoughts, discussion and book reviews If you also film a youtube review/discussion or write a review/discussion of the book on your blog please share it with us all by posting it in the reviews thread. A video review will then be posted on Jean (bookishthoughts) or Lauren's (readsanddaydreams) channel on youtube. At the end of the first month there will be a pre-scheduled twitter chat on themes relating to that month's book, which will not require you to have finished the book. We read one book over the course of two months throughout the year. Therefore, I want this bookclub to be a group. I strongly believe feminism, which means equality of all sexes in society, not to be about the individual but about everyone and to be a group movement.

This is not 'my' bookclub, however, it belongs to all of us.

All engagement is welcome though, on youtube, on blogs and on goodreads. Sick of sexist comments from people online and being accused of banging my 'feminist drum' by intolerant people I have decided to start a Feminist Bookclub on Booktube. We're also o Discover and recommend more feminist reads here: Discover and recommend more feminist reads here:

The Flames of Albiyon by Jean Menzies