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catilac

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Ruby Hamad: White Tears Brown Scars (2020, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) 5 stars

For readers of White Fragility, White Tears/Brown Scars is an explosive book of history and …

Amazing book. Admittedly I hadn't been reading enough work by people of color. This was really grounding, and validating. I think everyone should read this, and it may be leading to the next book I read.

Ruby Hamad: White Tears Brown Scars (2020, Orion Publishing Group, Limited) 5 stars

For readers of White Fragility, White Tears/Brown Scars is an explosive book of history and …

loving. it's helping me explore more serious the impact of whiteness in my life, and certain learned behaviors I am trying to undo when I exist in white spaces. also i'm feeling inspired to write one day? who knows i'm wild.

Olufemi O. Taiwo: Elite Capture (2022, Haymarket Books) 4 stars

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to …

This described this annoying phenomenon I saw in nyc art scenes where some elite members get most of the benefit of their “collective” - but it also just went on to describe more of the plight of our modern day capitalist experience and I felt inspired to make things better. Wow gosh. Just wow.

Tara Brach: Radical Acceptance (2004, Bantam) 4 stars

A book about self acceptance.

great if you're into it this sort of thing

5 stars

This book really changed my life for the better I feel. I'm generally down on myself for having trauma and also feel like i can cycle out of control with all of the self help. but this book was illuminating and inline with my already established spiritual practices (not that it needs to be).