Join Eva and Élaina as they cocoon in the warm disabled academic embrace of Molly McCully Brown's "Places I've Taken My Body" essay collection. A poet and a scholar, McCully Brown prompts us to reflect on disability culture and disabled communities, past and present and we get pretty mushy about it. What! It feels so good to be seen. Listen if you too are craving darkly beautiful reflections on living through the cycle of fighting your bodymind, becoming the supercrip, and then forgetting your pain only to start again.

CW: Eugenics, forced sterilisation, forced institutionalisation

We are back with more Emezi coverage! The magic in "You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty" is all about stringing that grief up like a canopy of wedding rings... If you know, you know. And if you don't know, go read this book immediately! Our fawning knows no spoiler bounds.

CN for discussions of: death, grief, biphobia, aggression

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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Recommendations

Eva recommends:

• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

• Second Place by Rachel Cusk

Élaina recommends:

• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

• This One Summer by Mariko and Jilliam Tamaki

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Élaina is @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram; check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call and Women of Questionable Morals.

Eva is @EAsprecher on Twitter and @windup_book_chronicles; find her academic work on ResearchGate

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Are your ready for a psychoanalytic and gushing recap of a queer YA magical realism novel? Well, it doesn't matter because we are gifting you our review of Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore. Come for the Latinx non-binary teen representation, stay for the crip mutual aid.

Book recommendations:

Élaina recommends

• Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moscowitz
• Felix Ever After by Kacen Calender

Eva recommends

• Cemetery Boy by Aiden Thomas
• Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques

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Follow us

Bookshelf Remix is @bookshelfremix on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook 

Élaina is @ElainaGMamaril on Twitter, @spinoodler on Instagram; check out her work at www.elainagauthiermamaril.com, and by listening to Philosophy Casting Call and Women of Questionable Morals.

Eva is @EAsprecher on Twitter and @windup_book_chronicles; find her academic work on ResearchGate

Support the podcast 

Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Tell a friend about the podcast!

Become a monthly supporter at www.ko-fi.com/brpod.