Exploring anarchism, feminism, and the Cold War, Julia and Victoria unpack the context of The Dispossessed by the brilliant and sassy Ursula K. Le Guin. Join for the sci-fi, stay for Barbenheimer, alien Jesus, and a confusion of Ursulas. Also Julia has minor microphone problems. (She sincerely apologizes).

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Hainish Novels and Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Le Guin’s 2004 Guardian interview with the great comebacks

Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin

The Eye of the Heron: Le Guin’s Introduction to Feminism and Ode to Nonviolence” by Sean Guynes (Tor.com)

Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin 1994 by Jonathan White

Ursula K. Le Guin - A Left-Handed Commencement Address delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

13th directed by Ava DuVernay

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Recommendations:

Books by Octavia E. Butler, including Wild Seed

Books by Margaret Atwood, including The Handmaid’s Tale

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Babel by R. F. Kuang

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didion

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by LeGuin

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