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.”
Boomerang
On Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire
In the words of Robin D. G. Kelley’s introduction, this book is a “declaration of war.”
Messengers of a world above nature
On Wildwood
Wildwood
Roger Deakin
Roger Deakin’s journey through trees takes him through the woods of Britain and Europe, to Kazakhstan and Australia, finding fellowship with a good many trees and the critters that live among them, as well as many lovely and interesting people.
Our words
On The Light Eaters & Always Coming Home
The Light Eaters
Zoë Schlanger
Amidst the noisy and nonsensical discourse about recognizing the intelligence of machines, Zoë Schlanger asks us to open our eyes to the intelligence that already surrounds us and upon which we wholly depend: that of plants.
They killed knowledge
On Worlds of Exile and Illusion
Living in alignment
On Mutual Aid & The Dispossessed
Mutual Aid
Dean Spade
A concise primer on the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.