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 …
Want to Read"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
"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
"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
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1. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
3. The Book of Joan
By: Lidia Yuknavitch
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending… read more
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4. They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
By: Wesley Lowery
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tami… read more
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5. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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6. 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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7. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
8. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
9. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
10. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
By: Lola Olufemi
4.43
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more
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"Feminist work is justice work"-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"Legality does not equal access."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
11. 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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12. The Trinity of Fundamentals
By: Wisam Rafeedie
4.62
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
On the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, the Palestinian Youth Movement’s (PYM) Popular Unive… read more
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13. 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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"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
14. 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
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"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
15. Sluts: Anthology
By: Michelle Tea
3.87
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
What it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture, edited by cult-favorite … read more
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16. Border Nation: A Story of Migration (Outspoken by Pluto)
By: Leah Cowan
4.31
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Borders are not just meaningless geographical lines. They have an impact on all of our lives, wheth… read more
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17. Abolition Revolution
By: Aviah Sarah Day
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An introductory guide to the roots and contemporary context of, and resistance to carceral politics… read more
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18. 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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19. 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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"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
20. Fugitive Feminism
By: Akwugo Emejulu
4.61
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
What does existence mean for Black women without the anchor of humanity and the struggle to inhabit… read more
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21. Through an Addict's Looking-Glass
By: Waithera Sebatindira
4.24
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass is an exercise in meaning-making, a thinking-out-loud. Waithera S… read more
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