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• Quiet Rumours

  An Anarcha-feminist Reader

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  This is a fascinating window into the development of the women's movement in the words of those who moved it. Compiled and introduced by the UK-based anarchist collective Dark Star, Quiet Rumours features articles and essays from four generations of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Raising Free People

  Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work

  Richards, Akilah S.

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  Individual experiences influence our approach to parenting and education, so we need more than the rules, tools, and 'bad adult' guilt trips found in so many parenting and education books. We need to reach behind our behaviors to seek and find our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Free Them All

  a Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System

  Ricordeau, Gwénola

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  Considering the position of survivors of violence, criminalized women, and women with criminalized relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to emancipation without incarceration. (Catalog description)

• Practicing New Worlds

  Abolition and Emergent Strategies

  Ritchie, Andrea J.

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  Explores how principles of emergence, adaptation, iteration, resilience, transformation, interdependence, decentralization and fractalization can shape organizing toward a world without the violence of surveillance, police, prisons, jails, or cages…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abolish Rent

  How Tenants Can Solve the Housing Crisis

  Rosenthal, Tracy

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  For anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent shows us how tenants can finally rebalance the scales through organizing and collective action. Written by two co-founders of the largest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Commune Form

  the Transformation of Everyday Life

  Ross, Kristin

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  A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation. (Catalog description)

• Taking the State Out of the Body

  a Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism

  Rubin, Eliana

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  Embedded in the political theory and practice of Jewish anti-Zionism, it invites readers of all backgrounds to build an embodied sense of safety that has the power to make militarized borders, policing, and nation-states obsolete. (Catalog…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Capitalism & Disability

  Selected Writings by Marta Russell

  Russell, Marta

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  Late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. (Catalog description)

• I Must Resist

  Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters

  Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987

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  Bayard Rustin's ability to chart the path "from protest to politics" is both timely and deeply informative. Here, at last, is direct access to the strategic thinking and tactical planning that led to the successes of one of America's most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Truly Assumed

  Sabreen, Laila

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  After a terrorist attack near her home ignites Islamophobia, Sabriya and two other girls publish an online journal that goes viral, but when hateful comments and threats are made, they must risk everything to make their voices heard.

• Turn This World Inside Out

  the Emergence of Nurturance Culture

  Samaran, Nora, 1977-

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  Nurturance culture is the inverse of abuse and patriarchy, suggesting that models of care and accountability can move toward dismantling systems of dominance and oppression.

• White Rural Rage

  the Threat to American Democracy

  Schaller, Thomas F.

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  A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens—who are also the least likely to defend its core principles.

• Setting Sights

  Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-defense

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  This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories of community armed self-defense, exploring how it has been used by marginalized and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the 20th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unbuild Walls

  Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

  Shah, Silky,

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  In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama’s record-level deportations, Trump’s immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Against Purity

  Living Ethically in Compromised Times

  Shotwell, Alexis, 1974-

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  The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Undivided Rights

  Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice

  Silliman, Jael Miriam

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  Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice--on their own behalf. (Catalog description)

• On Tyranny

  Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century

  Snyder, Timothy

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  The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hope in the Dark

  Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

  Solnit, Rebecca

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  With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love in a F*cked-up World

  How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

  Spade, Dean, 1977-

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  Trans activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to be the change we want to see-both out in the world and among our closest connections-with a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mutual Aid

  Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

  Spade, Dean, 1977-

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  This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete…Read moreRead more of this annotation