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Written by Tiffany on 2025-01-16 at 04:26

This week’s book vlog is about Rebekah Weatherspoon’s A Thorn in the Saddle, why I think it’s important to read romance novels by and about people outside my own experience, and an addendum because I used some careless language and thought it would be better to be transparent rather than edit it out. This one is long! We are aiming for ten minutes per video but I’m bad at being concise. Next week will be shorter! https://videos.tiffanysostar.com/w/u29V3LgzeUKttgMx7i92Kp #amreading #bookstodon #romancelandia #vlog #peertube

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Written by levampyre on 2025-01-16 at 06:16

@Tiffany I hated to read cis hetero monogamous "romance", i.e. love stories of people outside my own experience. Because I so often found it super toxic. I can't even read stuff like "Pride and Prejudice" without feeling the unhealthy pressure from normative society that weighs so heavy on people like me and wears us so down. I'd for once like to read about a healthy cishet romance in a healthy society. But I may have to write that one myself. 🙈

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Written by Tiffany on 2025-01-16 at 15:45

@levampyre I meant outside my dominant experience (which I said in the video but not the post), because yeah, otherwise it can just reinforce normative pressures. But I do think that the romance genre can be a space of opening up possibilities beyond those normalizing pressures, and that’s what I love about the genre. (I don’t generally read cis het white mono romance, unless it’s got something else interesting going on.)

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