By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be visible to be viable on my path. I don't have to be shy to be sacred about my time. There are only two things I have to do, my mom taught me, and I can do them in the company of my choosing. The company of myself, my living, my dead, my folks, my dreams. 1. Stay Black. 2. Breathe."-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
If you liked the queer plot in Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs , here is a list of 14 books like this:
By: Aurora Levins Morales
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Drawing vibrant connections between the colonization of whole nations, the health of the mountainsi… read more
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"What is so dreadful is that to transform the traumatic we must re-enter it fully, and allow the full weight of grief to pass through our hearts. It is not possible to digest atrocity without tasting …"-Aurora Levins Morales, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
By: Sunaura Taylor
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability li… read more
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"Unless disability and animal justice are incorporated into our other movements for liberation, ableism and anthropocentrism will be left unchallenged, available for use by systems of domination and o…"-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
"Denying someone [else] justice just because you do not yet have your own is never a good idea. I am also convinced we cannot have disability liberation without animal liberation--they are intimately …"-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
"It is difficult to ascertain what role these articles play in marginalizing the vegetarian experience when there are so many more pressing issues that confront individuals who might otherwise choose …"-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
"It's not that there are no challenges to becoming a vegetarian or vegan, but in the media, including authors of popular books on food and food politics, contribute to the 'enfreakment' of what is so …"-Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
By: Audre Lorde
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins this power… read more
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"The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible."-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be ca…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be …"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires ke…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
By: Eli Clare , Suzanne Pharr
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy. . . . Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a … read more
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"The body as home, but only if it is understood that bodies are never singular, but rather haunted, strengthened, underscored by countless other bodies."-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaimin…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we end up shattering our self-hatred, shame, silence, and isolation, the goal is t…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
"The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space - are all based upon how non…"-Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
By: Larissa Lai
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form t… read more
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By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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By: Donna J. Haraway
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more
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By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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By: Ashley Shew
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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By: Ross Gay
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; som… read more
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"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
By: Kai Cheng Thom
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Callum Angus
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that tran… read more
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By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more
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"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
By: Tricia Hersey
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more
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"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Joshua Whitehead
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Ejeris Dixon
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Afraid to call 911 but not sure what to do instead? Transformative justice and other community-base… read more
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"I know for a fact that we can't heal or hurt alone. We must heal or hurt in relationship with other people. (Mariame Kaba)"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
"I needed so much tenderness, love, and support. I needed a team of adults who could keep me safe while honoring my agency and autonomy. Instead, I got the state: two white social workers in my living…"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
"When we define ourselves, the result is complexity. We are none of us one thing, neither good nor bad. We are complex surviving organisms. We do appalling things to each other, rooted in trauma. We s…"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
"First you hunger for the taste of a stranger, then your enemy, then anyone called a leader, then any small difference will do. Your hands become sharp and your words become sharp and the only move av…"-Ejeris Dixon, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
By: Mariame Kaba
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Kelly Hayes
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world. Grievers i… read more
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By: Max Liboiron
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research… read more
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By: Margaret Killjoy
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Death cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, sw… read more
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"Let the apocalypse not be the lifting of the veil, let it be the lowering."-Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories
By: Sabrina Imbler
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science wri… read more
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By: Cara Page
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide readers through … read more
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By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It’s time to think this through. … read more
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"Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series, 3)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Before she was an NYT bestselling author, adrienne was known for her work as a facilitator, mediato… read more
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By: Adrienne Maree Brown
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
The search for hope and community in death and desolation. The pandemic of Syndrome H-8 continues t… read more
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By: Lars Horn
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Lars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven … read more
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"Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they to…"-Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
By: Prentis Hemphill
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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