Slow River
Nicola Griffith
Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.
Ammonite
Nicola Griffith
Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.
Always
Nicola Griffith
Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.
Stay
Nicola Griffith
Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.
Obligation to possibility
On Let This Radicalize You
Let This Radicalize You
Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
“Radical” means “pertaining to the root,” that is, the foundation or center of things, the point from which something grows.
The Blue Place
Nicola Griffith
Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.
Autonomy
On For Health Autonomy
For Health Autonomy
CareNotes Collective
After austerity measures pushed nearly a million people in Greece out of the healthcare system, dozens of social solidarity clinics emerged, providing free preventative and integrative healthcare to thousands of people.
De-caring
On Non-things
Non-things
Byung-Chul Han
“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”
Toolmen
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
The Telling
Ursula K. Le Guin
Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.
Superior
Angela Saini
The subtitle of Angela Saini’s Superior refers to the return of race science—but reading it, it’s abundantly clear that race science never went away.
Foolish
On The Mismeasure of Man & Sister Outsider
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
First published in 1981—thirteen years before The Bell Curve—Stephen Jay Gould’s Mismeasure of Man nonetheless claims to be the definitive refutation of that deeply racist book.
Make life possible
Five principles for embracing uncertainty.
Five Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K. Le Guin
When the Hain first visit the Werelian system, they encounter a people living in a rigid and violently hierarchical system, separated into “owners” and “assets.”