I'm a wanna-be avid reader. Books allow me to escape and rebuild the world I live in, and I'm always eager to find another story that takes me even further.
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Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As …
I loved Jonah's Gourd Vine -- thought some of her short stories very fine -- …
LIVE YOUR LIFE, JANIE! Don't let no MAN HOLD YOU BACK!
Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the …
Damn, $40 for access to the Black-only BBS?!?
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WHERE IS SNOWBALL?
The ending is pretty somber. I am disappointed with Benjamin's allegedly wisdom but I guess that's what happens with folks with no sense of hope: they do nothing but stand around.
A really good read about the nature of urbanization, the tech sector's silent role in shaping it against the people who live in and the way that governments are optimizing less for the people who live in these cities and more for the "global citizen" who can travel and visit them.
I JUST started this book after opening it when it came in the mail today and you will not be able to stop me from saying AFL! CIA! AFL! CIA!
This is the stuff that prevents me from looking at syndicalism as a singular bullet to success. It requires explicit divestment from a state that's heavily aligned with both corporate and nationalistic interests.
I preordered this book back in March. The premise was gripping and I was NOT expecting the introduction.
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of …
Need to read this for some context for a longer blog post I want to write. But that won't happen until mid-September.
A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.
“Organizing …
A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer …
What a read. I really am looking forward to writing about this book at length; the way it's kept me up over the last night just to finish and take notes.
Apex Hides the Hurt is a 2006 novel by American author Colson Whitehead. The novel follows an unnamed nomenclature consultant …
