by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
★★★★
Category archives: ★★★★
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
★★★★
Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany
★★★★
Turtle Island: The Story of North America’s First People
by Eldon Yellowhorn, Kathy Lowinger
★★★★
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
by Vandana Shiva
★★★★
Rosewater
(The Wormwood Trilogy #1)
by Tade Thompson
It’s a shame that nearly all the authors who are paid homage are long dead white men. And having one character describe the protagonist as sexist isn’t enough. Why is alien telepathy more envisionable than gender equity in 2066?
Still Thompson has created an … Read more