by Emily Hashimoto
★★★★
Category archives: ★★★★
Nothing Personal
by James Baldwin
★★★★
From the Roots Up
(Surviving the City #2)
by Tasha Spillett, Natasha Donovan (Illustrations)
★★★★
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis
★★★★
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
★★★★
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
★★★★
Ghost Summer
by Tananarive Due
★★★★
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★
A Spectral Hue
by Craig Laurance Gidney
★★★★
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by Angela Chen
★★★★
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe
by Akwugo Emejulu (Editor), Francesca Sobande (Editor)
Highlights:
“Those Who Fight For Us Without Us Are Against Us: Afrofeminist Activism in France” by Cyn Awori Othieno and Annette Davis on behalf of Mwasi Collectif In France self-labelled antiracist organisations along with the status quo cry ‘reverse racism’ not just when trying … Read more
Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
★★★★
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
by Angela Y. Davis
★★★★
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
★★★★
Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
by Bethany C. Morrow (Editor)
★★★★
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
by Vandana Shiva
First off, Shiva cannot seem to write without clobbering repetition. The heart of her ideas and activism, however, are galvanising and foundational. She has transformed the way I think about food justice and agroecology. She questions the sanctity of science and development and [reveals] that these are not … Read more
Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich
★★★★
Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France
by Crystal Marie Fleming
This is a dissertation work on collective memory and commemorative activism. Although there are stretches of empirical research to wade through, it is fortunately also explicitly polemical. France is not unique as a country that refuses to acknowledge racial oppression (unless it’s in America or unless it’s … Read more
Delayed Rays of a Star
by Amanda Lee Koe
★★★★