Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
By: Lola Olufemi
4.24
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
We collectively build and collectively shatter—every broken window is a new opportunity; every burn…
Want to Read"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
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1. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- poetry
- feminism
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
2. The Argonauts
By: Maggie Nelson
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more
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- feminism
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3. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
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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4. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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5. Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger
By: Brontez Purnell
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
"Brontez is a raw tongue of flame blazing through all the blatant fakery and insincere bullshit of … read more
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6. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
7. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
By: Travis Alabanza
4.38
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
8. Notes on Nationalism
By: George Orwell
4.01
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
In this essay, Orwell discusses the notion of nationalism, and argues that it causes people to disr… read more
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- philosophy
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"Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"For those who feel deeply about contemporary politics, certain topics have become so infected by considerations of prestige that a genuinely rational approach to them is almost impossible."-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled…"-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
9. 100 Boyfriends
By: Brontez Purnell
3.76
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero … read more
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"You never stop looking like art to me"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I, being what one therapist jokingly referred to as a “clinical sex addict,"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"I had fucked enough boys with Catholic damage to know that if he's wearing a crucifix, he's definitely a ho."-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
"My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more…"-Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends
10. 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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- poetry
- feminism
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
"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)
11. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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12. Un apartamento en Urano
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano
13. 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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14. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Micha Frazer-Carroll
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed ‘E… read more
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15. Raving
By: McKenzie Wark
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more
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16. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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17. Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
By: Audre Lorde
4.63
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
From The Guardian. Oct. 4, 2017. R.O. Kwon "Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, wri… read more
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- feminism
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"whatever was hidden out of fear could always be used either against the children or ourselves — one imperfect but useful argument for honesty. The knowledge of fear can help make us free."-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In a society where the good is defined in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, there must always be some group of people who, through systematised oppression, can be made to feel surpl…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us — that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it.…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
"As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feelin…"-Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
18. Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
By: Lola Olufemi
4.24
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
We collectively build and collectively shatter—every broken window is a new opportunity; every burn… read more
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- poetry
- feminism
- politics
- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- 21st century
- activism
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history’s radical traditions mea…"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
"If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine…"-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
19. Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
By: Cradle Community
4.35
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The fight for prison abolition is a struggle for collective liberation: a transformative vision of … read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"Crime is a construct that changes depending on its targets, applied to some but never to others."-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"The existence of trans people presents a threat to one of the central tenets of the white-supremacist, capitalist state - that we all need to just accept our place within its violent system."-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"In a world where we didn't have to commit most of our energy to making enough money to keep a roof over our heads, we might actually have time to engage in self-reflection, community care and collect…"-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
"Trans people's counter-conception of gender as a joyful and imaginative experience rattles these 'trans-exclusionary radical feminists' or TERFs, for whom gender is simply indicative of one's biologi…"-Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons
20. Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies
By: Heba Hayek
4.56
Format: 129 pages, Paperback
Tender yet brutal vignettes on a girlhood in Gaza, Palestine, filled with honey and warmth. Samb… read more
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21. We, The Heartbroken
By: Gargi Bhattacharyya
4.04
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
What do we do when the world breaks our hearts? Racial capitalism in the age of pandemic continues … read more
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- essays
"For a while I believe I am flying, not falling."-Gargi Bhattacharyya, We, The Heartbroken
"Grief reminds us, with some violence, that our selves are unbounded, and also that this reminder of unboundedness leads to the very edge of the abyss."-Gargi Bhattacharyya, We, The Heartbroken
"You fear that every effort has been meaningless, but it touches so many others that we can never calculate the impact of our lives, and that impossibility of calculation is a retort to finitude."-Gargi Bhattacharyya, We, The Heartbroken
"Every doctrine of violence and machinery of reaction has relied on his frightening it is to contemplate the crushing of hope. Far safer to expel hope altogether. More sensible than the painful un-num…"-Gargi Bhattacharyya, We, The Heartbroken
