by Joshua Whitehead (Editor)
★★★
Category archives: read
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha bandele
★★★★
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
★★★½
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
★★★★
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
by Alice Wong (Editor)
★★★★½
Heimat
by Nnedi Okorafor
★★
You Exist Too Much
by Zaina Arafat
★★★★★
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All
by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, Jamia Wilson
The audience in mind swings back and forth between middle grade and middle aged. It’s lean in activism that is specifically not anticapitalist. There is a fair amount that is useful but the moments of cringe are overpowering. A selection:
- ‘Standing up for
The Good Immigrant
by Nikesh Shukla (Editor)
★★★½
Moon of the Crusted Snow
(Moon of the.. #1)
by Waubgeshig Rice
★★★½
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
by Alicia Garza
Building on decades of behind the scenes work in Black-led organisations for social justice, Garza outlines the mission of identifying common goals to forge enduring and broadened relationships, and organising strategically to transform the dynamics of power—with a vision to secure the ability to shape every policy decision … Read more
Ghost Summer
by Tananarive Due
★★★★
The Black God’s Drums
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★½
Lady Sings the Blues
by Billie Holiday
★★★★★
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★
The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
★★½
It’s Not About the Burqa
by Mariam Khan (Editor)
★★★½
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★
Ring Shout
by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★★
Queens of Noise
by Leigh Harlen
★★★