pickEssays that blend the personal and academic to interrogate feminist praxis. McGregor uses her life in reading, academia, whiteness, queerness, fatness as the lens to explore what it means to care, to engage, to build a life through making meaning both consciously and not. I tore through this and built a new wing of my TBR with works cited here and I'm already ready to reread it.
pickA series of personal & academic essays examining everything from the claim that reading makes you more empathetic to the expert nature of seemingly natural storytelling.
McGregor is a genuine delight. Her voice is powerful & personable as in her podcasts (Oh Witch, Please & Secret Feminist Agenda), even as she interrogates her own privileges & internal biases. I‘ll need to buy a physical copy to highlight, I made almost a dozen notes. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
The nibling felt sick today. So we made pinwheel cookies! 🍪
pickEssays from analyzing the politics of whiteness in beloved classics such as Anne of Green Gables to discussing the mechanics of podcasting and how it engenders intimacy and authenticity. The book is a master class in the seamless integration of tones, going from formal citations of Sara Ahmed to sentences like "Frankly, podcasting made me into a real hard-line bitch about open access". It made me laugh and cry as well as think and reflect deeply.
A Sentimental Education | 
