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.

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.

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

In the words of Robin D. G. Kelley’s introduction, this book is a “declaration of war.”

Mutual Aid

Dean Spade

A concise primer on the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

Practicing New Worlds

Andrea J. Ritchie

Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis

Who’s Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

Judith Butler looks hard at the rise of anti-gender ideology in order to break apart how it works, and what, in turn, we must do about it.

Lifehouse

Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield proposes a strategy for surviving the climate crisis: Lifehouses, or a network of places of care, mutual aid, resource distribution, and solidarity.

The Other Side of Empathy

Jade E. Davis

“Empathy is an illusion at best, or simply—as is said in moments of deep reflection—bullshit!”

Everything for Everyone

M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi

On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

Silvia Federici

Following the threads from the witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to present-day gendered violence, Silvia Federici shows how—then as now—such oppression is not only a tool of capitalism but a critical component of it.

Against the Grain

James C. Scott

Like another book with the same name, James C. Scott’s Against the Grain argues that the “just so” story of humans’ progression from barbarians to civilized agriculturalists is not the success story we might have thought.

Against Technoableism

Ashley Shew

“Technoableism is a belief in the power of technology that considers the elimination of disability a good thing, something we should strive for.”

Conflict Is Not Abuse

Sarah Schulman

“How we understand Conflict, how we respond to Conflict, and how we behave as bystanders in the face of other people’s Conflict determines whether or not we have collective justice and peace.”

Caliban and the Witch

Silvia Federici

Silvia Federici, one of the creators of the wages for housework movement, digs in to the transition to capitalism and locates a critical and under-investigated element: the witch hunts.

Resisting AI

Dan McQuillan

“AI presents a technological shift in the framework of society that will amplify austerity while enabling authoritarian politics.”

Undrowned

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

“I believe in the possibility of dorsal, or stabilizing practices in our own lives.”

Rest Is Resistance

Tricia Hersey

Tricia Hersey—aka “The Nap Bishop”—is here to tell us to rest, and I am ready to listen.

Just Culture

Sidney Dekker

Drawing from safety practices in transportation and medicine, Sidney Dekker outlines how to (and how not to) create a culture of trust, learning, and accountability.

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