2023 Book list – the future is unwritten

Non-fiction:

Joyful Militancy  by Carla Bergmann and Nick Montgomery

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Night Vision by Butch Lee and Red Rover
Killing Rage by bell hooks
I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests and the Pursuit of Freedom-Derecka Purnell 

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice By Mariame Kaba (2021)

 City of Quartz by Mike Davis

Learning Good Consent ed. Cindy Crabb

Class Power on Zero Hours by AngryWorkers

Palestine by Joe Sacco (comic book)

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber

A Punk House in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309 by Aaron Cometbus & Scott Satterwhite

Fine: A Comic About Gender By Rhea Ewing (2022)

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk By Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe (2022)

 Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis Edited By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (2021)

Sticking It to the Man: Revolution & Counterculture in Pulp & Popular Fiction,1950-1980-Nette & McIntyre

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) By Dean Spade (2020)

The Nation on No Map (2021) – William C. Anderson

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018)

Deterring Democracy-Noam Chomsky (1991)

Fiction:

 The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin 

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 

The Lesbian Body-Monique Wittig

The Ministry of Unhappiness-Arundhati Roy

Grievers (Black Dawn Series) By adrienne marre brown (Sci-fi, 2021)

There There- Tommy Orange

The Fifth Season By N.K. Jemisin (sci-fi, 2015)

100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell

Poetry

Citizen Illegal-Jose Olivarez