Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
By: Carla Bergman
4.38
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righte…
Want to Read $ 11.99"When rigidity and suspicion take over, joy dies out."-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"When rigidity and suspicion take over, joy dies out."-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"What happens when politics becomes something a person *has*, rather than something people *do together* as a shared practice?"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"What happens when politics becomes something a person *has*, rather than something people *do together* as a shared practice?"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
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1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
2. The Coming Insurrection
By: Comité invisible
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Thirty years of "crisis," mass unemployment, and flagging growth, and they still want us to believe… read more
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3. The Transmigration of Bodies
By: Yuri Herrera , Lisa Dillman
3.59
Format: 128 pages,
A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need o… read more
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4. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No one ever suspects," begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find th… read more
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5. Life is Elsewhere
By: Milan Kundera , Aaron Asher
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
The author initially intended to call this novel The Lyrical Age. The lyrical age, according to Kun… read more
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6. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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7. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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8. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
9. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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10. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
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
11. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
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
12. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
13. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
14. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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15. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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16. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
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
17. Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism (Kairos)
By: Silvia Federici
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, … read more
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18. Politiser le bien-être
By: Camille Teste
4.10
Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition
Le secteur du bien-être est florissant et puissant mais souffre d'un manque de légitimité. L'auteur… read more
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19. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072
By: M.E. O'Brien
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more
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20. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
By: Carla Bergman
4.38
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righte… read more
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- theory
- feminism
- politics
- psychology
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- activism
- sociology
"When rigidity and suspicion take over, joy dies out."-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"What happens when politics becomes something a person *has*, rather than something people *do together* as a shared practice?"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"Is it possible to be militant about creativity and care? Can militancy be based on something that is responsive and relationship-based? Can people be militant about joy?"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
"Gaslighting can be subtle and unintentional, but as feminist writer Nora Samaran explains, it is particularly insidious because it undermines people's trust in their own capacities: "If you think of …"-Carla Bergman, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
21. Hors d'atteinte
By: Marcia Burnier
4.34
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
"Elle trouvait que fuir demandait moins d'énergie que se battre. Désormais elle doute : est-ce qu'o… read more
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