Via GoodReads.  Turn This World Inside Out by Nora Samaran “Violence is nurturance turned backwards,” writes Nora Samaran. In Turn This World Inside Out, she presents Nurturance Culture as the opposite of rape culture and suggests how alternative models of care and accountability―different from “call-outs,” which are often rooted in the politics of shame and guilt―can … Read More

Via GoodReads.  Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown Inspired by Octavia Butler’s explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, … Read More

Via AK Press.  Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Author) Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Format: Book Binding: pb Pages: 262 Released: October 30, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781551527383 In this collection of essays, longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled … Read More

Via GoodReads.  Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”   In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns … Read More

Via GoodReads.  “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping … Read More