Hi there!
This week’s highlights were my company’s 2025 goal-setting session and our holiday party. It was empowering to reflect on this year’s wins, share with and hear from the rest of the team, and look forward to the new year. Likewise, connecting with coworkers for longer and more personally was a blast (also low-key scary, hahaha).
Here’s my reading highlight:
Shut Up You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji
4 stars
This book made me pretty sad. The novel centres on Loli and her experiences, heavily on her sexual experiences and the notion of consent, from the beginning of her move from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Canada and issues revolving around poverty.
I was surprised to learn that Mutonji wrote the novel partly to counter negative stereotypes of the neighbourhood she grew up in, with her own positive narrative, because I’m not sure this objective was met.
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