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5 books about love

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Love is a central theme of many books. Here we present some pieces of fiction and non-fiction with a particularly interesting, surprising or political perspective on love.

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poco.lit.’s Top 5 Summer Reads

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Whether you’re lucky enough to be going away for a summer holiday, or staying home, we hope you find time to get some reading in. We’ve compiled a summer reading list for you in case you’re looking for inspiration.

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poco.lit. has now been in existence for two years. If you would like to help make poco.lit. more sustainable, and help us to continue making it a space of high quality content, you can now support us through Steady.

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4 Books about Language, Race and Gender

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As part of our macht.sprache. project, we dealt in depth with concepts related to race and gender. For this, it was necessary to understand how linguistic discrimination works and that it is part of discriminatory social structures. Here we present 4 books (3 written in German, 1 in English) that have shaped our thinking about concepts and terminologies around race and gender.

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The macht.sprache. extension is here!

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Since the beginning of 2021, we here at poco.lit. have been working on the macht.sprache. project with Kolja Lange and Timur Celikel. The project aims to foster politically sensitive translation. Our new browser extension will help achieve this goal.

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