more mid-panini reading and watching

As the panini evolves (are we post-? mid-?) I'm continuing to read.

•  Torrey Peters' "Detransition, Baby" made me think differently about being a woman and mothers and working women and how gender and sexuality manifest themselves. The protagonist and narrator is a wildly funny and perceptive trans woman. Loved this book about three characters trying to decide if they can bear and raise a child together.
• I also read Leilani Raven's, "Luster," which features another threesome, this one featuring a young Black woman, her middle-aged white lover, and his wife. Unexpected and true and funny. I loved this too.
• "Kim Jiyoung Born 1982" by Cho Nam Joo and Jamie Chang was not as much of a fiction story as I expected but entertaining and sad nonetheless. A look into the humorless sexism of Korean life and expectations on women in general. 
• A friend suggested "Oona Out of Order" by Margarita Montimore and I have to say, I struggled with this one. I enjoyed the character but if the plotline hadn't been intentionally scrambled, I'm not sure I would have stuck with it. 
• While I'm waiting to read Kaitlin Greenidge's "Libertie," I checked out "We Love You Charlie Freeman." Greenidge threads two storylines together, one in the now at a research facility, where a Black family cares for a moody chimpanzee, teaching him Black Sign Language and dealing with the locals, and one in the past, in the same location, with previous generations and their own problematic ape studies. Super interesting, timely, funny, and sad. 
• Courtesy of Kanopy I watched "Feels Good Man," about the alt-right, Americanazi appropriation of Pepe the frog.
• I'm also deep into "Borgen," probably a few years too late but enjoying this soap-opera-ish look at the Danish political system. 
• I also finished season 3 of "Shrill" in about 2 days. I enjoyed the episodes but didn't enjoy the lighting on Fran. She's gloriously beautiful and luminous, and some of the scenes were too murky and ill-lit to even see her properly. (And now I'm reading it's the last season. *cry*)