8 best-selling psychology books like Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by Adrienne Maree Brown

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Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.50

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Before she was an NYT bestselling author, adrienne was known for her work as a facilitator, mediato…

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1. 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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2. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

By: Thomas King

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist … read more

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3. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto book and Adrienne Maree Brown's Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
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4. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)

By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

4.47

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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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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)

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5. 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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  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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

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6. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
"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)

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7. 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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  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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8. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
"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

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9. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Adrienne Maree Brown's Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"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

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10. How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

By: Mia Birdsong

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist a… read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
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11. See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

By: Valarie Kaur

4.54

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valari… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Wonder is the wellspring for love"

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

"You are a part of me I do not yet know"

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

"I believe laboring in joy is the meaning of life."

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

"Grieving together, we ease each other’s suffering and come to know each other."

-Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

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12. The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice

By: Staci Haines

4.24

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

A restorative justice approach to somatic therapy, integrating mind-body healing with social activi… read more

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  • politics
  • social work
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
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13. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.98

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

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14. Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

By: Cara Page

4.54

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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  • activism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • psychology
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15. Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.50

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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  • theory
  • politics
  • leadership
  • social work
  • psychology
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
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16. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

By: Tiya Miles

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory rec… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

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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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
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18. The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves

By: Shawn A. Ginwright

4.39

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For readers of Emergent Strategy and Dare to Lead, an activist's roadmap to long-term social justic… read more

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  • social work
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
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19. Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community

By: Camille Sapara Barton

4.40

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

An embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community—practical exercises, decolonize… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"I sense that learning to be with my grief will be a lifelong process of repatterning old ways of being and consciously practicing what I would like to embody."

-Camille Sapara Barton, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community

"We need to feel. To slow down and sense what is happening. To grieve and understand what has been lost so that we can begin to assess how to move in a different direction, not simply repeat the behav…"

-Camille Sapara Barton, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community

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20. Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

By: Kazu Haga

4.67

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

An expert in the field offers a mindfulness-based approach to nonviolent action, demonstrating how … read more

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  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
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21. Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy)

By: Susan Raffo

4.51

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Self-transformation requires social transformation. Social transformation requires self-transformat… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help

14 Top politics books like Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by Adrienne Maree Brown

Transform Your Habits

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Dean Spade

4.38

Transform Your Habits

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

Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

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19 must-read audiobook books like Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Transform Your Habits

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

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