For Purchase

  1. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle:  Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

  1. How  We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  1. The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein

  1. Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm edited by Yorimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBron

  1. Socialism… Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation by Danny Katch

  1. No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis


Trauma, Healing and Care

  1. Living with Dual Spirits: Spirituality, Sexuality and Healing in the African Diaspora by Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti

  1. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD

  1. Herbs for trauma zine

  1. To Unchain Haunting Blood Memories: Intergenerational Trauma among African Americans by Kirkland C. Vaughans

  1. Asian American Feminist Antibodies {care in the time of coronavirus}

  1. Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings

  1. Rereading the bitches from hell: a feminist appropriation of the female psychopath by Deborah Jermyn

  1. Neoliberal Bodies and the Gendered Fat Body by Hannele Harjunen

  1. The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement by Dr. Shawn Ginwright

  1. Living to Love by bell hooks

  1. Black Feminisms: Renewing Sacred Healing Spaces by Lani V. Jones

  1. Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, and the
  2. Depressive Position by Jose Esteben Muñoz

  1. Critical Resistance: Addressing Harm, Accountability and Healing

  1. Worksheet: Organizing for Community Accountability

  1. Worksheet: Philly Stands Up - Accountability Road Map

  1. What is/isn’t transformative justice? by adrienne maree brown

  1. Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. Community Accountability in the People of Color Progressive Movement (PDF) (2005)

  1. Miklat Miklat: A Transformative Justice zine

Media and Technology

  1. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

  1. Sisters In The Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making edited by Yvonne Welbon & Alexandra Juhasz

  1. The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense by Kara Keeling

  1. 404 Not Found: The Internet and the Afterlife by Steve Jones

  1. Beautiful Solutions

  1. How We Win With Story Platforms

  1. Black in  the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television by Stephen Bourne



Art, music and culture

  1. Parable of the  Sower by Octavia Butler

  1. The Idea of Black Culture by Hortense J. Spillers

  1. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks

  1. What Exceeds the Hold?: An Interview with Christina Sharpe by Selamawit Terrefe

  1. Unburdening Representation by Tavia Nyong’o (article)
  2. Rebellion/Invention/Groove by Katherine McKittrick

  1. On Decadence: Bling Blingby David Marriott

  1. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  1.  I am not supposed to be here: an 8-part exercise in self-love and breaking things at the appropriate time by michael felder

  1. Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston (short)
  2. Drenched In Light by Zora Neale Hurston
  3. The Dancing Mind by Toni Morrison
  4. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  5. Poems by Audre Lorde
  6. Zami, Sister Outsider and Undersong by Audre Lorde
  7. Matigari by Ngugi  Wa Thiong’o
  8.  A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age Harlem by Eric Garber
  9.  Arthur Jafa in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
  10. Sula by Toni Morrison
  11. Poems by Maya Angelou
  12. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
  13. Multimedia: Poem for Some Women by Sonia Sanchez, Def Poetry
  14. Afrofuturism and Post-Soul Possibility in Black Popular Music by Mario David
  15. Now We Want Our Funk Cut: Janelle Monae’s Neo-Afrofuturism by Daylanne K. English and Alvin Kim
  16. Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
  17. Material Matters: Black Radical Aesthetics and the Limits of Visibility by Sampada Aranke (article)
  18. Pilot of Atlanta by Donald Glover
  19. the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth
  20. loveconjure/blues by sharon bridgforth
  21. Facing and Transforming  Hauntings of Race Through the Arts by Rosemarie A. Roberts

Indigenous Liberation

  1. The People Who Profited Off the Trail of Tears by Caitlin Fitz (The Atlantic)

  1. Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of  Early Electronic Manufacture by  Lisa Nakamura
  2. Decolonization Not Inclusion: Indigenous Resistance to American Settler Colonialism by Eric W. Steinman
  3. Oil Politics and Indigenous Resistance in the Peruvian Amazon: The Rhetoric of Modernity Against the Reality of Coloniality by George Stetson
  4. Revitalization and Indigenous Resistance to Globalization and Neoliberalism by James V. Fenelon
  5. We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
  6.  Reconciling “Terror:” Managing Indigenous Resistance in the Age of Apology by Pauline Wakeham
  7. Paradigm Wars: Indigenous People’s Resistance to Globalization

Climate Justice

  1.  Critical Food Studies by Michael S. Carolan

  1. Climate justice and the international  regime by Chukwumerije Okereke

  1.  Bending the curve and closing the gap: Climate justice and public health by Fonna Forman, Gina  Solomon, Rachel Morello-Frosch and Keith Pezzoli

  1. From environmental to climate justice: climate change and the discourse of environmental justice by David Schlosberg and Lisette B. Collins

  1. Climate justice, commons and degrowth by Patricia E. Perkins

Abolition

  1.  Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y. Davis

  1. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry by Angela Davis

  1.  ‘Whiteness,’ criminality, and the double standards of deviance/social control by Nancy A. Heitzeg
  2. Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex 
  3. Preserving Punishment Power: A grassroots assessment of New York Reforms by Survived and Punished NY

Government vs. Governance

  1. . Confronting Empire: Interviews with David Barsaimian by Eqbal Ahmad
  2.  How To Talk About Government - Frameworks Institute
  3. Stepping into the Moment: The Coronavirus as an Opening for Transformative Change by Harmony Golberg and Grassroots Policy Project
  4.  It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protests and Politics by Francesca Polleta
  5. Capitalism and its future: Remarks on regulation, government and governance by Bob Jessop

Race

  1.  Beginning a Career in Academia: A Guide for Graduate Students of Color edited by Dwayne A. Mack, Elwood Watson and Michelle Madsen Camacho

  1. Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon

  1. The Black Radical Tradition, A Reader featuring W.E.B. Du Bois, Hubert Harrison, Harry Haywood, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde and the Combahee River Collective

  1. Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theories edited by Abigail B. Bakan and Enakshi Dua

  1. Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Sharpe

  1. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumptionand Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism by Grada Kilomba

  1. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism by Jared Sexton
  2. All Black Everything by Jared Sexton (article)

  1. Killing Rage, Ending Racism by bell hooks

  1. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde

  1. On How We Mistook the Map by Sylvia Wynter (audio)
  2.  On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being of Desetre  by Sylvia Wynter (article)

  1. Notes on Passage (The New International of Sovereign Feelings) by Fred Moten (article)

  1.  Afro-Pessimism and Friendship in South Africa: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson III  by  Shannon Walsh

  1. Black Interiority, Freedom and the Impossibility of Living by Calvin Warren

  1. Depression is ordinary: Public feelings and Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Motherby Ann Cvetovich
  2. Paying the Social Debt: What White America Owes Black America by Richard F. America
  3. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible by Malik Gaines

  1. Black Anarchism: A Reader by Black Rose Anarchist Federation
  2. Black Ether by J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak
  3. Loving Through Loss: Reading Saidiya Hartman’s History of Black Hurt by Harvey Neptune

  1. The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism by Jared Sexton (article)

  1. Primitive at the Plantation’s Edge by Robert F. Reid-Pharr (article)

  1. Black ontology, radical scholarship and freedom by H.L.T. Quan & Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (article)

  1. Uplift and Criminality by Fred Moten (article)

  1. The Case of Blackness by Fred Moten (article)

  1. Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh) by Fred Moten

  1. Black Op by Fred Moten

  1. Against the Dark: Antiblackness in Education Policy and Discourse by Michael J. Dumas

  1. Further Considerations on Afrofuturism by Kodwo Eshun

  1. Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany by Hans J. Massaquoi
  2. Promoting Feminist Amefricanidade: Bridging Black Feminist Cultures and Politics in the Americas by Sonia E. Alvarez and Kia Lilly Caldwell

Gender, Queerness and Sexuality

  1. Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Feeling

  1.  Gay Warriors: A DocumentaryHistory from the Ancient World to the Present edited B. R. Burg

  1. Black. Queer. Southern. Women. An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson

  1.  I Don’t Exist: Conflicting Communities and the Nature of Sexual Belonging by Alea Adigweme

  1. We Are Family: Black Nationalism, Black Masculinity, and the Black Gay Cultural Imagination by Amy Abugo Ongiri

  1. No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies edited by E. Patrick Johnson

  1. Black Queer Studies edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson

  1. The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography by Jennifer C. Nash
  2. Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguityand Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre  edited by Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry and Dru Pagliassotti

  1. Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings by Juana Maria Rodriguez

  1. Queering Fat Embodiment edited by Cat Pause, Jackie Wykes and Samantha Murray

  1. black . . . gay by Keguro Macharia

  1. Rounding Up the Homosexuals: The Impact of Juvenile Court on Queer and Trans/Gender-non-conforming Youth by Wesley Ware

  1. Trans Necropolitics: A Transnational Reflection on Violence, Death, and the Trans of Color Afterlife by C. Riley Snorton and Jin Haritaworn

  1. Queer Theory Revisited by Michael Hames-Garcia

  1. Bringing Flesh to Theory:  Ethnography, Black Queer Theory and Studying Black Sexualities  by Nikki Lane

  1. Queer Diasporas edited by Cindy Patton & Benigno Sanchez-Eppler

  1. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

  1. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteben Muñoz

  1. Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love and  Intimacy  with Multiple Partners by Deborah Anapol

  1. Rounding Up the Homosexuals: The Impact of Juvenile Court on Queer and Trans/Gender-non-conforming Youth by Wesley Ware

  1. Queer Theory Revisited by Michael Hames-Garcia

  1.  Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions by Sandeep Bakshi, Suhraiya Jivraj, and Silvia Posocco

  1.  Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith

  1. Onticide: Afro-pessimism, Gay Nigger # 1, and Surplus Violence by Calvin Warren
  2. Critical Issues Vol. 36: Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging edited by Nick Rumens & Alejandro Cervantes-Carson

  1.  “Uses of the Erotic” for Teaching Queer Studies by Thelathia “Nikki” Young

  1. Reconsidering Dutty Wine: Mona Students’ Views on Black Female Sexuality in Jamaica by Annecka Marshall

  1. Black/Queer/Diaspora at the Current Conjuncture by Jafari S. Allen
  2. Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World by Joseph Massad

  1. Towards and African-centered Sociological Approach to Africana LGBTQI Identities and Performances: The Kemetic Model of the Cosmological Interactive Self by Sekhmet Ra Em Kht Maat (Cher Love McAllister)


Crip Theory

  1. Black madness : : mad Blackness by Theri Alyce Pickens (ada/disability justice)
  2. Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
  3. Unvictimizable: Toward a Fat Black Disability Studies by Anna Mallow
  4. The Disability Studies Reader, second edition

  1. Disability activism in the new media ecology: Campaigning strategies in the digital era

Movements

  1. We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja
  2. ‘We’re trying to destroy the world” Anti-Blackness & Police Violence After Ferguson: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III

  1. Meditations on the Legacy of Malcolm X by Angela Y. Davis

  1. Multimedia: Excerpt of a Stokley Carmichael interview

  1. Multimedia: Interview with Malcom X at UC Berkeley

  1. Multimedia: H. Rap Brown and Kwame Ture speak at the Free Huey  Newton Rally

  1. Multimedia: Eyes of the Rainbow: A Documentary Film with Assata Shakur

  1.  culture will be revolutionary or will not be’ William Klein’s of the First Pan-African Festival of Algiers (1969) by Olivier Hadouchi

  1. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas

  1. Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya

  1. March against Racism and Violence in Favor of Living Well (bem viver) Brasilia 2015  National Black Women’s March by Claudia Ferreira and Adriana Medeiros
  2. Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica by Obika Gray

Feminism

  1. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
  2. Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw

  1. Angela Davis: An Autobiography
  2. Women & Performance:a  journal of feminist theory

  1. Like Blood or Blossom: Wangechi Mutu’s Resistant Harvests by Sarah Jane Cervenak
  2. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human by Alexander G. Weheliye

  1. “Theorizing in a Void:” Sublimity, Matter, and Physics in Black Feminist Poetics by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

  1. The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors by Saidiya Hartman

  1. The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner by Saidiya Hartman

  1. Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans Feminism Meet: A Conversation by Kai M. Green and Marquis Bey

  1. Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
  2. Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference by Audre Lorde
  3. The Combahee River Collective Statement

  1. Love as the practice of freedom by bell hooks

  1. For Assata, New Brunswick Prison, 1977 by Audre Lorde
  2. Eating the Other: Desire and the Resistance by bell hooks

  1. Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
  2. Black Looks: Race and Representation by bell hooks
  3. ‘Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights’ by Angela Davis
  4. The Womanist Reader edited by Layli Phillips

  1. Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry

  1. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies edited by Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott and Barbara Smith

  1. Freedom Organizing Series # 3 - I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities by Audre Lorde

  1. Dangerous Brown Men: Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the War on Terror by Gargi Bhattacharyya

  1. The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies by Ann duCille
  2. (Re)Presenting Shug Avery and Afrekete: The Search for a Black,  Queer and Feminist Pleasure Praxis by Kaila Adia Story

  1. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

  1. La Guera by Cherie Moraga

  1. EntreMundos/AmongWorlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldua edited by AnaLouise Keating

  1. Policing the Black Woman’s Body in an Urban Context byHazel V. Carby

Political Philosophy and Spirituality

  1. The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism by Sylvia Wynter (article)

  1. An Introduction to Africana Philosophy by Lewis R. Godon

  1. Untitled and Outdoors: Thinking with Saidiya Hartman  by Sarah Jane Cervenak & J. Kameron Carter

  1. Multimedia file - Saidiya Hartman reading from Wayward Lives

  1. Inventions of Existence: Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and “the Damned” by David Marriott

  1. Afro-Pessimism Reading List
  2. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

  1. Black Grotesquerie by Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman

  1. Life-Times of Disposability within Global Neoliberalism by Neferti X. M. Tadiar

  1. The Three Faces of Power by Richard Healey and Sandra Hinson (short)

  1. Multimedia - Pros and cons of neoliberalism

  1. Sectors of the U.S. Right

  1. Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies edited by Bernadette J. Brooten
  2. Post-Colonialism: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. C. Young

  1. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott

  1. The Stellium Handbook: An Owner’s Manual  for People with Stelliums or Triple Conjunctions (Part one of two) by Donna Cunningham, MSW

En otro idioma  

  1. Debates y perspectivas en torno a la discapacidad en América Latina
  2. Analises del patriarcado
  3. Sobre la violencia interiorizada en las mujeresby Casilda Rodrigañez Bustos
  4. Transfeminismos: Epistemes, fricciones y flujos

  1. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua

  1. Cartogrofias queer: el flaneur preverso, la lesbiana topofobia y la puta multicartografica, o  como hacer una cartografia “zorra” con Annie Sprinkle
  2. Otras  inapropiables: Feminismos desde las fronteras 

  1. Sus ojos miraban a dios de Zora Neale Hurston

  1. Ecofeminismos rurales: Mujeres por la soberanía alimentaria

  1.  Rosa Chillante: mujerers y performance en mexico by Monica Mayer
  2. Africana: Aportaciones para la descolonización del feminismo

  1. Brujas, parteras y enfermas: Una historia de sanadoras by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
  2. Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: Una reflexión sobre prácticas y discursos descolonizadores

    Palestine

->Start Here: Decolonize Palestine Reading List

  1. Nur Masalha - The Palestine Nakba_ Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory-Zed Books (2012).pdf

  1. Light in Gaza by Edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, et al.
  2. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions by Omar Barghouti
  3. Palestine: A Socialist Introduction Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
  4. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory by Ahmad H. Sa'di, Lila Abu-Lughod

Additional resources

  1. Academia and Public Links compiled by Vriddhi Vinay