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The Tenant Class

by Ricardo Tranjan

★★★★

Edited excerpts:

There is no housing or affordability crisis. What renders housing unaffordable are landlords who charge too much and governments that allow it to happen. It is a poorly regulated market that extracts income from working-class people and channels it to the capital-owning class. As far … Read more

Posted byauthor2026 January 172026 January 17Posted in★★★★, notes, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession

by Austin Channing Brown

★★★★¾

Posted byauthor2025 November 2Posted in★★★★★, readTags: memoir, nonfiction, social justice

Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

by Bianca Mabute-Louie

★★★½

Posted byauthor2025 July 6Posted in★★★½, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

The Portable Feminist Reader

by Roxane Gay (Editor)

★★★¾

Posted byauthor2025 April 16Posted in★★★★, readTags: lgbtq, nonfiction, social justice

Micro Activism: How You Can Make a Difference in the World without a Bullhorn

by Omkari Williams

★★★★

Posted byauthor2025 April 3Posted in★★★★, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On

by Malaika Jabali

★★★¼

Posted byauthor2025 February 172025 April 2Posted in★★★½, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

by Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis

★★★★

Posted byauthor2025 January 7Posted in★★★★, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

James Baldwin: The Last Interview and other Conversations

by James Baldwin

★★★★½

Posted byauthor2024 June 172024 June 21Posted in★★★★½, readTags: lgbtq, nonfiction, social justice

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom

by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri

★★★★★

Posted byauthor2024 March 28Posted in★★★★★, readTags: memoir, nonfiction, social justice

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

by Kiese Laymon

★★★★

Posted byauthor2024 March 15Posted in★★★★, readTags: memoir, nonfiction, social justice

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too

by Ijeoma Oluo

★★★

Posted byauthor2024 March 4Posted in★★★, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

by Rafia Zakaria

★★★

Posted byauthor2024 February 9Posted in★★★Tags: nonfiction, social justice

Un féminisme décolonial

by Françoise Vergès

★★★½

Posted byauthor2024 January 8Posted in★★★½, readTags: nonfiction, read in french, social justice

Feminism and Marxism

by Dorothy Ballan

A lot of space is focused on critiquing Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics instead of standing on its own. The antiracism holds up, and the parts about communal social relations that Leslie Feinberg distilled in Transgender Warriors.

Posted byauthor2024 January 8Posted in★★½, notes, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times

by Carla Bergman, Nick Montgomery

★★★½

Posted byauthor2024 January 6Posted in★★★½, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Radical Intimacy

by Sophie K. Rosa

★★★½

Posted byauthor2023 December 23Posted in★★★½, readTags: nonfiction, social justice

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business

by Roxane Gay

Essays I appreciated most:

  • “Hate That Doesn’t Hide”
  • “Can I Enjoy Art but Denounce the Artist?”
  • “Jada Pinkett Smith Shouldn’t Have to Take a Joke. Neither Should You.”
Posted byauthor2023 November 122023 November 12Posted in★★★½, notes, readTags: lgbtq, nonfiction, social justice

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

by Julia Lee

★★★½

Posted byauthor2023 October 19Posted in★★★½, readTags: memoir, nonfiction, social justice

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba

★★★★½

Posted byauthor2023 October 1Posted in★★★★½Tags: nonfiction, social justice

Le génie lesbien

by Alice Coffin

★★★★½

Posted byauthor2023 September 28Posted in★★★★½, readTags: lgbtq, nonfiction, read in french, social justice

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