I wish I read more fiction
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While Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of …
Really excellent—I loved the Cahokia chapter, but the voice and tone throughout made all of it really captivating.
While Western accounts of North American history traditionally start with European colonization, Indigenous histories of …
Mourning today
Ugh do I need to / want to read this?
Recommended by Andrea
I'm leaving this in "currently reading" where it's been for... 10 years to the day. Wow. It's weird to think this book has been with me for this long, and that I've been on such a journey with it. And there's still so much to do.
I'm leaving this in "currently reading" where it's been for... 10 years to the day. Wow. It's weird to think this book has been with me for this long, and that I've been on such a journey with it. And there's still so much to do.
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable …
Welp, Solarpunk class is over, so I guess it's time to stop picking through this one. It was really great to teach from, though!
Welp, Solarpunk class is over, so I guess it's time to stop picking through this one. It was really great to teach from, though!
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War
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If you’re watching Ken Burns you should probably be reading this at the same time.
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. …
Reading this while all the Epstein stuff comes out is really something
Encouraged in the intro to Gumbs’ Undrowned
In the face of systemic racism and state-sanctioned violence, how can we metabolize our anger into a force for liberation?
…@todrobbins I wish I could! I just saw someone very favorably reference that essay and its treatment of Lord of the Flies (which I once had to teach as part of an International Baccalaureate curriculum, and didn’t have the language or understanding to process it critically with students). Specifically: what actually happened when a group of young people actually experienced the main storyline of LotF in real life and how it was almost the exact opposite of the ending of the book.
Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's …
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Trust Kids! weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about …
Especially interested in Gabriel Zacuto’s “Fire of Ata: The Raging Voice is a Song of Love”
