12 must-read nonfiction books like Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2) by Abolition Collective

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Similar categories in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"Maketa,"

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Live. For Now. For the time being."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"True freedom comes from being unknown."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• feminism
• nonfiction

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Similar categories in Atul Gawande's Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• nonfiction

"Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind."

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

"Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you."

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

"Death, of course, is not a failure. Death is normal. Death may be the enemy, but it is also the natural order of things."

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

"He moved his line in the sand. This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with …"

-Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Bluets book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Horrorstör book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"All great works must begin with a sacrifice."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"the day had been long and her emotions were toast."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"I know this is your religion, but for me it’s just a job."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

"Let's make sure it's really raining before we worry about floods."

-Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• feminism
• nonfiction

"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"

-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Similar categories in None's The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

Similar categories in Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

Similar categories in Daniel Black's Don't Cry for Me book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• lgbt

"I want readers to reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much."

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

"Hurt is worse than anger, you know. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you."

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

"Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed."

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

"Pride can really kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind. Grandma used to say, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a…"

-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me

Similar categories in Ted Chiang's Exhalation book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"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

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt

"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's The Death of Vivek Oji book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• lgbt

"Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know"

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

"He smelled like grass and wind and clothes that had been dried in the sun."

-Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

Similar categories in Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• race
• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice

"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Similar categories in Akwaeke Emezi's You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• lgbt

"if it's real, the distance won't change it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."

-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Similar categories in John Green's An Abundance of Katherines book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"Je pense que j'taime"

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"All hurt is brain hurt."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"I thought you hung the moon."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

"The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible."

-John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• nonfiction
• lgbt

"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

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's I'm Afraid of Men book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt

"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

Similar categories in Alok Vaid-Menon's Beyond the Gender Binary book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• feminism
• nonfiction
• social justice
• lgbt

"I learned about gender through shame."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

Similar categories in Stephen King's Elevation book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"adwawd"

-Stephen King, Elevation

"the past is history, the future's a mystery"

-Stephen King, Elevation

"The past is history, the future's a mystery."

-Stephen King, Elevation

"The town motto seems to be if you can't keep it on the down-low, then out you must go."

-Stephen King, Elevation

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• lgbt

"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."

-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby

Similar categories in Yaa Gyasi's Transcendent Kingdom book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

"I like you best when you're feeling holy. You make me feel holy too."

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

"There is no living thing on God's green earth that doesn't come to know pain sometime."

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

"Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?"

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

"The anger has notes of understanding in it. He's saying, *Yes, she's insufferable, but she's ours and so we must suffer her.*"

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

Similar categories in Leila Mottley's Nightcrawling book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• race
• lgbt

"We always showing people our hands like it's proof we're human."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"She is the bottom of the ocean, where all the magic hides beneath too many layers of dark and water and salt."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"Even after everything he's put me through, if he's ready to ask for it instead of just taking it then I will walk to the ends of the earth for him."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

"That boy is a wonder. He's my autumn rain, my last picture of the sun before it sets. Daytime is not possible without Trevor. Not even sure the sun come out without Trevor."

-Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

Similar categories in Kliph Nesteroff's We Had a Little Real Estate Problem book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• race
• nonfiction
• social justice

Similar categories in Mimi Zhu's Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• feminism
• nonfiction

"Anger, like numbness, is another sacred protector of our survival. It is a loving act to protect yourself, a loving at to resist harm, and a loving act to allow yourself the sacred breath of anger."

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

"I have tried to return to an "untainted" version of myself, one that was oblivious to the visceral natures of pain and loss. I obsess over an imagined place of "purity", where the ghosts of my past d…"

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

"The excuses became an armor that pushed away he pain, but painful feelings do not relent even when faced with brute force. They linger in the ether and visit you, whether you are ready or not to conf…"

-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

Similar categories in Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2) book and Abolition Collective's Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire (Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics, #2)

• race
• lgbt
• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• social justice