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do you think you'd be able to suggest some gender and sexuality 101 readings off the top of your head for someone wanting to get into the gender and sexuality of it all with ldpdl?
nothing too strenuous on your part and only if you have the time or want to
I recommend book reviews for quickest synthesis. This is not a comprehensive list, just a short overview from what I have on my phone rn. If you decide to read more than the reviews then check libgen for free copies
Scott, Joan W. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” The American Historical Review 91, no. 5 (1986): 1053–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/1864376. - theoretical foundation. I rec reading this first bc it was a major paradigm shift and informs many of the books below and just overall explains the stakes and is a succinct rebuttal to the “but they’re both men so stop being bioessentialist” crew across many fandoms and esp this one.
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. “African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race.” Signs 17, no. 2 (1992): 251–74. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174464. - read right after joan
Brown, Kathleen. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, 1996. - just read a review
Morgan, Jennifer L. Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 2011. - sexism as the foundation on which racism was created. one of my all time faves
Briggs, Laura. "The Race of Hysteria: 'Overcivilization' and the 'Savage' Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology," American Quarterly 52 (June 2000).
Brittney C. Cooper’s Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women 2017
Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920. United Kingdom: Harvard University Press, 1994. - thought of Grace and the shift from creole Catholic to black baptist when I read this. idr exactly why but I know this is enjoyable in general for gender and race politics of the show
Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford, 2010). - lot of interesting stuff about why white male/black women pairing both consensual and otherwise were more palatable for white society bc despite the illegality, the two primary markets of mastery—maleness and whiteness—are unchallenged and sometimes even bolstered. relevant to why l/l were such an accepted open secret for so long even while jim crow laws were tightening, since the master of the house was a wealthy white man and the black man was obviously the feminized and dependent one. obv an impossible blind eye if Louis was with a white woman or if lestat was anything other than walking patriarchy to everyone lol. also why as long as it’s Lestat’s name on the paper they let Louis do his little hobbies cause even his mastery over the prostitutes is second to Lestat’s mastery over him
Capó Jr., Julio. Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami before 1940. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. - similar to above but with homosexuality. clearest analogue to iwtv but I have a long note about it in the full reading list I never finished so icbf to explain again
Weiner, Susan. Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945-1968. United Kingdom: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. - potential setting for Claudia in s2, we’ll see
McGuire, Danielle L. “‘It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped’: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle.” The Journal of American History 91, no. 3 (2004): 906–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3662860. - graphic and violent events discussed, probably most graphic re rape as anything else here so be mindful.
Hine, Darlene Clark. “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West.” Signs 14, no. 4 (1989): 912–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174692. - There’s a pdf for this one when you Google. I’ve spoken about in relation to Louis when I was reading it so search her name on my blog for more info. I think this is a good place to stop. Cooper and McGuire are writing in response to this historian though so you might wanna read this before reading those two
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Episode 166 - Sports (Non-Fiction)
This episode we’re talking about Non-Fiction Sports books! We discuss how to define sports, live sports, weird rules, and more!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards
Things We Read (or tried to…)
The Comic Book Story of Basketball: A Fast-Break History of Hops, Hoops, and Alley-OOPS
Canadian Heritage Minutes: Basketball (YouTube)
(lots more below in “Links, Articles, and Things”)
Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge, translated by Becky L. Crook, narrated by Atli Gunnarsson
Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross
One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter by Matt Hern
Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-Changing Female Athletes by Laken Litman
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper, narrated by Adam Lazarre-White
Other Media We Mentioned
Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics by Gabriel Kuhn
Links, Articles, and Things
Which Pokémon are the most goth? (featuring Matthew and Jam)
Lumberjack World Championship (Wikipedia)
Sports Book Awards
Mascot Mischief (Jam’s mascot RPG)
Pawtucket Red Sox (Wikipedia)
It’s possible the burlesque wrestling event that Anna and Matthew went to was Glam Slam, which still exists!
Heritage Minutes (Wikipedia)
Wilder Penfield (YouTube)
Sam Steele (YouTube)
Halifax Explosion (YouTube)
Jackie Shane (YouTube) (most recent one!)
The 10 Best Canadian Heritage Minutes of All Time
A Part of Our Heritage (YouTube)
AK Press (Wikipedia)
Green Bay Packers (Wikipedia)
List of fan-owned sports teams (Wikipedia)
Sex verification in sports (Wikipedia)
Testosterone regulations in women's athletics (Wikipedia)
Zhang Shan: The only female shooter to win gold in a mixed competition
“After the Barcelona Games, the International Shooting Union barred women from shooting against men. For the next years, the skeet event remained on the Olympic Games programme, but only for male athletes.”
The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I by Jon Bois
Barbados intentionally scored an own goal to help them win by two thanks to a weird golden goal rule Weird Rules on Secret Base (YouTube)
Twenty20 (Wikipedia)
“Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket.”
Episode 159 - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose by Leigh Cowart
16 Sports (Non-Fiction)books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
Indigenous Feminist Gikendaasowin (Knowledge): Decolonization through Physical Activity by Tricia McGuire-Adams
Rebound: Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City by Perry King
A Beautiful Work in Progress by Mirna Valerio
Basketball (and Other Things): a Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-hop, and Street Basketball by Onaje X. O. Woodbine
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
In My Skin: My Life on and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner
Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring
A Team of Their Own: How an International Sisterhood Made Olympic History by Seth Berkman
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story by Wyomia Tyus, Elizabeth Terzakis
Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America by Jason Reid
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance by Simone Biles with Michelle Burford
My Olympic Life by Anita L. DeFrantz and Josh Young
Back in the Frame: How to get back on your bike, whatever life throws at you by Jools Walker
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover
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When you go for months or years without a dude (or any love interest) ever noticing you, you can begin to feel invisible. And feminist principles about how the patriarchy has made us beholden to beauty culture do nothing to assuage the desire we all have to be seen and affirmed.
Brittney C. Cooper, Eloquent Rage
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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
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Masterlist of books mentioned & read by Emma Watson
—Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks (1981)
—All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks (1999)
—Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay (2014)
—Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, C. Riley Snorton (2017)
—Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
—Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart, Rumi (2007)
—Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values, Fred Kofman (2005)
—Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney Cooper (2018)
—Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir, Kai Cheng Thom (2016)
—Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, Rebecca Traister (2018)
—Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2008)
—Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot (2018)
—Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow , Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
—Hope Not Fear, Hassan Akkad (2021)
—How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran (2011)
—Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein (2015)
—Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1869)
—Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur (2014)
—Mom & Me & Mom, Maya Angelou (2013) (X), (X)
—Moranifesto, Caitlin Moran (2016)
—My Life On The Road, Gloria Steinem (2015) (X)
—Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Gloria Steinem (1983)
—Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Adrienne Maree Brown (2019)
—Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Janet Mock (2014)
—Sex and World Peace, Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Chad F. Emmett (2012)
—Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde (1984)
—Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion, Tansy E. Hoskins (2014)
—The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (2015)
—The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003) (X)
—The Five Minute Journal: A Happier You in 5 Minutes a Day, Alex Ikonn, U.J. Ramdas (2013)
—The Mother of All Questions, Rebecca Solnit (2017)
—The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing, Denis Mukwege (2021)
—The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, Sabrina Mahfouz (Editor) (2017)
—The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler (1996)
—This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, Adam Kay (2017)
—Untamed, Glennon Doyle (2020)
—We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Adrienne Maree Brown (2020)
—Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World, Lily Cole (2020)
—Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017) (X)
—Why We Swim, Bonnie Tsui (2020)
—Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman, Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1992) (X)
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Brittney C. Cooper's history of black women thinkers traces decades of struggle against racism and misogyny. Critic Genevieve Valentine says it's a dense, serious read that rewards close attention.
In 'Beyond Respectability,' A History of Black Women As Public Intellectuals
#beyond respectability#brittney c cooper#nonfiction#black women#race#gender#history#racism#misogyny#books#book review
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here’s my giant leftist to-read list for the next few years!!!
if a little (done!) it written next to the book, it means i’ve finished it! i’m gonna try to update this as i read but no promises on remembering haha
Economics/Politics
Property by Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (done!)
Wages, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx (done!)
Wage-Labor and Capital by Karl Marx (done!)
Capital Volume I by Karl Marx
The 1844 Manuscripts by Karl Marx
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Fredrich Engles
Synopsis of Capital by Fredrich Engels
The Principles of Communism by Fredrich Engles
Imperialism, The Highest Stage Of Capitalism by Vladmir Lenin
The State And Revolution by Vladmir Lenin
The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky
Fascism: What is it and How to Fight it by Leon Trotsky
In Defense Of Marxism by Leon Trotsky
The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemborg
Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
Profit over People by Noam Chomsky
An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory by Ernest Mandel
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
The Postmodern Condition by Jean François Lyotard
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
The Socialist Reconstruction of Society by Daniel De Leon
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Socialism Made Easy by James Connolly
Race
Biased: Uncover in the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji
Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism And The Persistence Of Racial Inequality In America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy And The Racial Divide by Crystal M. Flemming
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How To Wake Up, Take Action, And Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell & Aurelia Durand
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism For The Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesymn Ward
Class, Race, and Marxism by David R. Roediger
America for Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States by Erica Lee
The Politics Of The Veil by Joan Wallach Scott
A Different Mirror A History Of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
Black Theory
The Wretched Of The World by Frantz Fanon
Black Marxism by Cedric J Robinson
Malcolm X Speaks by Malcolm X
Women, Culture, and Politics by Angela Davis
Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis (done!)
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis (done!)
The Meaning of Freedom by Angela Davis
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Ain’t I A Woman? by Bell Hooks
Yearning by Bell Hooks
Dora Santana’s Works
An End To The Neglect Of The Problems Of The Negro Women by Claudia Jones
I Am Your Sister by Audre Lorde
Women’s Liberation And The African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara
W.E.B. DuBois Essay Collection
Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. DuBois
Lynch Law by Ida B. Wells
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Paradise by Toni Morrison
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
This Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe Moraga
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Black Skins, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Killing of the Black Body
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton
Settlers; The myth of the White Proletariat
Fearing The Black Body; The Racial Origins of Fatphobia
Freedom Dreams; The Black Radical Imagination
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
An Argument For Black Women’s Liberation As a Revolutionary Force by Mary Anne Weathers
Voices of Feminism Oral History Project by Frances Beal
Ghosts In The Schoolyard: Racism And School Closings On Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon To White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, Big Business, Re-create Race In The 21st Century by Dorothy Roberts
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation by Jeff Chang
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era In America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
The Common Wind by Julius S. Scott
Black Is The Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, And Mine by Emily Bernard
We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affects Us and What We Can Do
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life Of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies
Black Studies Manifesto by Darlene Clark
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Souls Of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Darkwater by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Education Of Blacks In The South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery And The Making Of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
The Color Of Money: Black Banks And The Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
A Black Women’s History Of The United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
The Price For Their Pound Of Flesh: The Value Of The Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, In The Building Of A Nation by Daina Ramey Berry
North Of Slavery: The Negro In The Free States, 1780-1869 by Leon F. Litwack
Black Stats: African Americans By The Numbers In The Twenty-First Century by Monique M. Morris
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique M. Morris
40 Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, And Redemption of The Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A More Beautiful And Terrible History: The Uses And Misuses Of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History Of Medical Experimentation On Black Americans From Colonial Times To The Present by Harriet A. Washington
Working At The Intersections: A Black Feminist Disability Framework” by Moya Bailey
Theory by Dionne Brand
Black Women, Writing, And Identity by Carole Boyce Davies
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II by Douglass A. Blackmon
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Some Of Us Are Very Hungry Now by Andre Perry
The Origins Of The Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality In Postwar Detroit by Thomas Surgue
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays and Poems by Claudia Jones
The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni McCade
Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances Beal
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Indigenous Theory
Colonize This! by Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman
As We Have Always Done
Braiding Sweetgrass
Spaces Between Us
The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen
Native: Identity, Belonging, And Rediscovering God by Kaitlin Curtice
An Indigenous People’s History Of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, And The Pursuit Of Justice For Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid
The Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma In The Shadow Of Colonialism by Tanya Talaga
All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward by Tanya Talaga
Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid To Ask by Anton Treuer
Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer
Latine Theory
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of Pillage of A Continent by Eduardo Galeano
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez
De Colores Means All Of Us by Elizabeth Martinez
Middle Eastern And Muslim Theory
How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? Being Young And Arab In America by Moustafa Bayoumi
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer
Alligator and Other Stories by Dima Alzayat
API Theory
Orientalism by Edward Said
The Making Of Asian America by Erika Lee
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
Strangers From A Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki
They Called Us Enemy (Graphic Novel) by George Takei
Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by Edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats
Yellow: Race In America Beyond Black And White by Frank H. Wu
Alien Nation: Chinese Migration In The Americas From The Coolie Era Through World War II by Elliott Young
The Good Immigrants: How The Yellow Peril Became The Model Minorities by Madeline H. Ysu
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence Of An American People by Helen Zia
The Myth Of The Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Rosalind S. Chou & Joe R. Feagin
Two Faces Of Exclusion: The Untold Story Of Anti-Asian Racism In The United States by Lon Kurashige
Whiteness
White Fragility by Robin Di Angelo (done!)
White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege In A Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman
Waking Up White by Deby Irving
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
White Like Me: Reflections On Race From A Privileged Son by Tim Wise
White Rage by Carol Anderson
What Does It Mean To Be White: Developing White Racial Literacy by Robin DiAngelo
The Invention of The White Race: Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control by Theodore W. Allen
The Invention of The White Race: Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen
Immigration
Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftir
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work by Edwidge Danticat
My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
Voter Suppression
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
Give Us The Vote: The Modern Struggle For Voting Rights In America by Ari Berman
Prison Abolition And Police Violence
Abolition Democracy by Angela Davis
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
The Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis
Political Prisoners, Prisons, And Black Liberation by Angela Davis
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (done!)
The End Of Policing by Alex S Vitale
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
Choke Hold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
From The War On Poverty To The War On Crime: The Making Of Mass Incarceration In America by Elizabeth Hinton
Feminist Theory
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
7 Feminist And Gender Theories
Race, Gender, And Class by Margaret L. Anderson
African Gender Studies by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
The Invention Of Women by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
What Gender Is Motherhood? by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
I Am Malala by Malala Youssef
LGBT Theory
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution by Judith Butler
Imitation and Gender Insubordination by Judith Butler
Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler
Excitable Speech by Judith Butler
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
The Roots Of Lesbian And Gay Opression: A Marxist View by Bob McCubbin
Compulsory Heterosexuality And Lesbian Existence by Adrienne Rich
Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by B. Binohan
Gay.Inc: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics by Merl Beam
Pronouns Good or Bad: Attitudes and Relationships with Gendered Pronouns
Transgender Warriors
Whipping Girl; A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Stone Butch Blues by Lesie Feinberg (done!)
The Stonewall Reader by Edmund White
Sissy by Jacob Tobia
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
Butch Queens Up In Pumps by Marlon M. Bailey
Black On Both Sides: A Racial History Of Trans Identities by C Riley Snorton
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Lavender and Red by Emily K. Hobson
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Savion Glover, Jason Robert Brown, Priscilla Lopez, More Join NYPL I'm Still Here Benefit
BY ANDREW GANS
JUN 16, 2021
The upcoming benefit, celebrating the New York Public Library's Billy Rose Theatre Division, honors George C. Wolfe and the late Harold Prince.
Additional artists have joined the upcoming I'm Still Here benefit, celebrating the 90th anniversary of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Billy Rose Theatre Division and the 50th anniversary of its Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Honoring Tony-winning directors George C. Wolfe and the late Harold Prince, I’m Still Here will stream on Broadway on Demand June 23 at 8 PM ET.
Jason Robert Brown, Savion Glover, Priscilla Lopez, Susan Stroman, Marisha Wallace, and Christopher Wheeldon have joined the starry roster of participants. The evening, as previously announced, will also feature archival content of several Broadway productions preserved in the archive, including the newly announced Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson in The Mountaintop; Bette Midler in I'll Eat You Last; Brian Stokes Mitchell in Ragtime; Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot in South Pacific; Christian Borle and Tim Curry in Spamalot; and Craig Bierko and Rebecca Luker in The Music Man.
Viewers can expect to see Glover, Jimmy Tate, Choclattjared, and Raymond King in Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk; Meryl Streep, Marcia Gay Harden, and Larry Pine in The Seagull; Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robin de Jesús, Christopher Jackson, Karen Olivo, Andréa Burns, Janet Dacal, Eliseo Román, and Seth Stewart in In the Heights; and Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard.
Watch Stephanie J. Block Belt Out She Loves Me's 'A Trip to the Library' for NYPL I'm Still Here Benefit
Also taking part: Annaleigh Ashford (Sunday in the Park with George), Alexander Bello (Caroline, or Change), Laura Benanti (She Loves Me), Malik Bilbrew, Alexandra Billings (Wicked), Susan Birkenhead (Jelly’s Last Jam), Shay Bland, Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Matthew Broderick (Plaza Suite), Krystal Joy Brown (Hamilton), David Burtka (Gypsy), Sammi Cannold (Endlings), Ayodele Casel (Chasing Magic), Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza), Max Clayton (Moulin Rouge!), Calvin L. Cooper (Mrs. Doubtfire), DeMarius Copes (Mean Girls), Trip Cullman (Choir Boy), Taeler Elyse Cyrus (Hello, Dolly!), Quentin Earl Darrington (Once on This Island), Robin de Jesús (In the Heights), André De Shields (Hadestown), Frank DiLella (NY1), Derek Ege, Amina Faye, Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles), Leslie Donna Flesner (Tootsie), Chelsea P. Freeman, Joel Grey (Cabaret), Ryan J. Haddad (The Politician), Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof), James Harkness (Ain’t Too Proud), Marcy Harriell (Company), Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Mark Harris (Mike Nichols: A Life), David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Cassondra James (Once on This Island), Marcus Paul James (Rent), Taylor Iman Jones (Hamilton), Maya Kazzaz, Tom Kirdahy (The Inheritance), Hilary Knight, Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party), Norman Lear (Good Times), Baayork Lee (A Chorus Line), Sondra Lee (Hello, Dolly!), Telly Leung (Aladdin), Ashley Loren (Moulin Rouge!), Allen René Louis, Brittney Mack (Six), Taylor Mac (Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus), Morgan Marcell, Aaron Marcellus, Joan Marcus, Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), Sarah Meahl, Joanna Merlin (Fiddler on the Roof), Ruthie Ann Miles (Sunday in the Park with George), Bonnie Milligan (Head Over Heels), Rita Moreno (West Side Story), Leilani Patao (Garden Girl), Nova Payton (Dreamgirls), Joel Perez (Kiss My Aztec), Bernadette Peters (Into the Woods), Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam), Jacoby Pruitt, Sam Quinn, Phylicia Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun), Jelani Remy (Ain’t Too Proud), Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Beetlejuice), George Salazar (Be More Chill), Marilyn Saunders (Company), Marcus Scott (Fidelio), Rashidra Scott (Company), Rona Siddiqui (Tales of a Halfghan), Ahmad Simmons, Rebecca Taichman (Indecent), Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), Bobby Conte Thornton (Company), Sergio Trujillo (On Your Feet), Kei Tsuruharatani (Jagged Little Pill), Ben Vereen (Pippin), Jack Viertel, Christopher Vo, Paula Vogel (Indecent), Nik Walker (Ain’t Too Proud), Shannon Fiona Weir, Helen Marla White (Ain’t Misbehavin’), Natasha Yvette Williams (Orange Is the New Black), and Ricardo Zayas (Hamilton).
The program will also feature interviews with Broadway artists plus the re-conception of classic musical theatre songs, including "A Trip to the Library," “Wheels of a Dream,” “Another Hundred People,” “Love Will Find a Way,” and, fittingly, “I’m Still Here.”
READ: The Woman Who Fought to Record and Preserve Broadway Shows
The virtual benefit is produced and conceived by Boardman and Doran and features direction by Steve Broadnax, Sammi Cannold, Nick Corley, Ty Defoe, Lorin Latarro, Mia Walker, and Jason Michael Webb, choreography by Ayodele Casel, Latarro, and Ray Mercer, with new music arranged by Rachel Dean and Annastasia Victory, arrangements and orchestrations by Brian Usifer, and casting by Peter Van Dam at Tara Rubin Casting.
Tickets are donate-what-you-can, with a recommendation of at least $19.31 in honor of the year the division was founded. Visit StillHereat90.com.
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20 Gender Theory/Gender Studies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by b. binaohan
The Crunk Feminist Collection edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, & Robin M. Boylorn
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman
I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
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Intersectionality: A Necessary Tool
TL;DR Intersectionality plays a role in our everyday life as we deal with the weaving of our identities in various institutions and situations. Intersectionality is also a pivotal tool in creating frameworks that analyze and attempt to fight against system oppression, in which intersectionality has multiplicative effects on individuals. While focused on Black women feminists in this post based on the articles I was provided this concept extends so much further.
NOTE: Written with help from a fellow student Brennan Ventura taking Intro to WGSS Studies via our College. Feel free to reach out and chat with us about your feelings, understandings, comments, and questions!
Another day, another project in the name of awareness and activism. While this blog may seem to center on only queer rights I want to make it very clear that that is not the case. This blog speaks about and stands up for the many types of injustices present in our current systems and institutions. They do not have to intersect with Queer rights and advocacy but it’s time we focus on the fact that many actually do. Oppression doesn’t seem to go one at a time. You don’t generally deal with the racism inherent in all systems from simply being followed by shop owners in stores to a higher likelihood of police brutality one day and the next day dealing with inaccessible public places and buildings. This doesn’t take into account the discrimination you face from inside your own “safe” communities.
Because of this, I want to want to bring to people’s awareness a couple of concepts that have been pivotal in sharing such eye-opening perspectives on the mix of oppressions. Intersectionality and system oppression are very important terms that can help in analyzing the lives and situations different people or groups of people across the world may be experiencing. First off is intersectionality, intersectionality is a fairly new idea and a lot of different authors and people across multiple areas of interest such as activism, politics or science the answer to, “what is intersectionality”, would vary greatly. Most simply put, intersectionality is basically the differences and intricacies that humans in the world face in their daily lives. According to Sirma Bilge, and Patricia Hill Collins, sociology professors at Université de Montréal and the University of Maryland, say that intersectionality is “a way of understanding and analyzing the complexity in the world, in people, and in human experiences”(Collins and Bilge 2020, 1). But more so, intersectionality is a lens that helps to analyze the different situations and dilemmas that people across the world go through and how many times, issues such as gender violence, racism, sexuality, discrimination are connected through underlying strings and the issues that involve these systemic problems typically overlap as well. Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American lawyer, and civil rights activist, uses intersectionality to unveil the hidden binds in cases that deal with race and gender discrimination. Crenshaw views intersectionality as a way of showing that issues such as race and gender that may only seem as racial discrimination or gender prejudice are often overlapped in their issues. In a 2016 TEDWomen speech by Crenshaw she stated “in the same way that intersectionality raised our awareness to the way that black women live their lives, it also exposes the tragic circumstances under which African-American women die ”(Crenshaw 2016). And this leads us to system oppression or systematic oppression through the lens of intersectionality.
System oppression is the unwritten societal standards and traditions that are discriminatory towards certain races, ethnicities, genders or groups of people in general. For instance, in the United States African-Americans have undergone systematic oppression for generations and still continue to be oppressed today due to the societal standards grandfathered in by millions of people across the United States. Although explicit discrimination against African-Americans or explicit discrimination of any kind towards a specific group was made illegal by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, system oppression and the unwritten discrimination of certain groups throughout the United States are still as prominent as ever. And through the lens of intersectionality, it is evident that more often than not, an issue that may seem only racially charged or motivated is often intersectional and involves problems and perspectives from many other areas of oppression such as gender discrimination, xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, etc. and just looking at the issue as one caused by racism will not solve the issue and lead towards more problems later on down the line. Looking at system oppression through intersectionality it is evident a vast majority of issues do not merely involve one aspect of oppression and discrimination but multiple aspects like race, gender, homophobia and many more. According to a case by Kimberlé Crenshaw a young girl was in a lawsuit against a company that did not hire her due to what she thought was racial discrimination, however, the judge overseeing the case did not agree with the girl’s pleas. When analyzing the lawsuit, Crenshaw noticed that the judge was not looking at the case through the right lens, and because of this, the young girl lost the lawsuit. Crenshaw described this case through a lens of intersectionality and how the young African-American girl could not get helped because she was suffering through both racial and gender charged systematic oppression. As we can see, system oppression and intersectionality play a big role in the world today, and intersectionality, seeing an issue through multiple perspectives, can help to solve so many of the issues brought about by system oppression and discrimination in the United States and other nations across the world that face similar issues and problems.
These concepts are far-reaching but I think it important to first analyze them in the concepts that they were emphasized in. The frameworks for viewing interlocking systems of power, in this case, focus on weaving feminism and anti-racism together. In the introduction of the book But Some of Us Are Brave we see this eloquently spoken by Gloria T. Hull and Barbara Smith, “Because of white women’s racism and Black men’s sexism, there was no room in either area for a serious consideration of the lives of Black women. And even when they have considered Black women, white women usually have not had the capacity to analyze racial politics and Black culture, and Black men have remained blind or resistant to the implications of sexual politics in Black women’s lives” (Cooper, Hull, Bell-Scott, and Smith 2015, xxi). It is out of absence for this framework that these movements are born. Because of the interlocking identity, instead of being embraced by both communities, they are cast aside and their needs are not spoken for nor are their experiences being shared. Kimberly Crenshaw on her TedTalk about “The Urgency for Intersectionality” spoke about how pivotal that these voices are heard. Her example also focuses on the lived experiences of Black women, mentioning that with the trickle-down sense of social justice that we have currently, people are slipping through the cracks and being left at crossroads of communities, alone and vulnerable (Crenshaw 2016). Social justice movements, despite their call for equality only tend to mention the story of those with other privileges, for instance, feminism speaking mostly for the equality of white women. In this manner, those with intersecting identities have multiplicative effects of oppression and discrimination. As Crenshaw states, Black women brought down by police violence are not covered in the media as breaking news like that of their fallen brothers because of their status as women that are Black and the media simply doesn’t have a frame for how to portray that.
Of course, Black women are not the only intersectionality groups to have created such frameworks, demanding they be heard for their experiences. Similar movements have happened with queer people of color, disabled queer people, and indigenous people of nonbinary gender identities. Each of these groups speaks out against injustices of racism, homophobia, transphobia, colonialism, and ableism at the crossroads of where they interact, the very spot they were abandoned at. This is a commonality of all of those groups. They have formed communities based on this separation from not only the dominant, privileged culture but also the groups that are supposed to help them as well. This is by far not a new concept. These groups have been standing up for themselves for decades, creating liberation groups like the Salsa-Soul Sisters, a group made for and by Queer women of color. Just because their history has been erased, covered up, and ignored doesn’t mean that they haven’t been there fighting back. These groups are taking a stand for their stories and would love for allies to help spread their cause. Stay safe and stay educated and don’t forget to stand up for what you believe in!
Work Cited
Collins, Patricia Hill, and Sirma Bilge. Intersectionality. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2020.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “TEDWomen 2016.” TEDWomen 2016.
Cooper, Brittney C., Akasha Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith. But Some of Us Are Brave Black Womens Studies. New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2015.
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May your rage be a force for good. What you build is infinitely more important than what you tear down. When the struggle feels unwinnable, may you never forget this one thing: You got this. We got this.
Brittney C. Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers her Superpower
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Nonfiction Book List
A collection of nonfiction books by Black authors and/or related to intersectional race and gender studies, history, as well as other various topics. The list below is a compilation of various lists I have seen on Instagram, as well as research I’ve done on my own. I am sure I am missing important works, and am happy to add anything that is suggested. This list will be regularly added to and updated.
Race & Anti-Racism
Diangeo, Robin - White Fragility
Eddo-Lodge, Renni - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Kendi, Ibrahim X. - How to Be Anti-Racist
Mahzarin, Banaji & Greenwald, Anthony - Blindspot
Oluo, Ijeoma - So you want to talk about race
Omi and Winant - Racial Formation in the United States
Rankine, Claudia - Citizen
Roberts, Dorothy - Killing the Black Body
Smith, Andrea - Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy
Sowell, Thomas - Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Waheema & Lubiano - The House that Race Built
Ward, Jesmyn - The Fire This Time
Prison Abolition & the Justice System
Alexander, Michelle - The New Jim Crow
Davis, Angela - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Murakawa, Naomi - The First Civil Right
Stefanic & Delgado - Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
Stevenson, Bryan - Just Mercy
Rothstein, Richard - The Color of Law
Policing
Vitale, Alex S. - The End of Policing
Intersectional Feminism
Bambara, Toni Cade - The Black Woman, An Anthology
Carruthers, Charlene - Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Cooper, Brittney - Eloquent Rage
Collins, Patricia Hill - Black Feminist Thought
Collins, Patricia Hill - Black Sexual Politics
Cottom, Tressie McMillan - THICK and Other Essays
Crenshaw, Kimberle - On Intersectionality
Davis, Angela - Women, Race, & Class
Davis, Dána-Ain - Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
Gay, Roxane - Bad Feminist
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline - Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugivity
Hernandez, Ed. Daisy and Rehman, Bushra - Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism
hooks, bell - Ain’t I a Woman
hooks, bell - All About Love
hooks, bell - Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Jenkins, Morgan - This Will Be My Undoing
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. - They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Kendall, Mikki - Hood Feminism
Lorde, Audre - Sister Outsider
Morales, Rosario - This Bridge Called My Back
Morgan, Joan - When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks it Down
Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́ - The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Shakur, Assata - Assata: An Autobiography
Simpson, Leanne Beta - As We Have Always Done
Williamson, Terrion L. - Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
Wilson & Russell - Divided Sisters
Yamahtta-Taylor, Keeanga - How We Get Free
Masculinity
hooks, bell - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
hooks, bell - We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
History
Asante Jr., M.A. - It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
Baldwin, James - The Fire Next Time
Berry, Daina Ramey & Gross, Kali Nicole - A Black Women’s History of the United States
Gates Jr., Henry Louis - Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Blackmon, Douglas A. - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Du Bois, W.E.B. - The Souls of Black Folk
Hartman, Saidiya - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Hurston, Zora Neale - Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Johnson, E. Patrick - Black, Queer, Southern Women.: An Oral History
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. - They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Kendi, Ibram X. - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Snorton, C. Riley - Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
Taylor, Candacy A. - Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America
Washington, Harriet A. - Medical Apartheid
Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns
Zinn, Howard - A People’s History of the United States
Politics/Economy
Anderson, Carol - One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Baptist, Edward E. - The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Psychology
Menakem, Resmaa - My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
Tatum, Beverly Daniel - "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
Literary Criticism
Morrison, Toni - Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Education
hooks, bell - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Science & Technology
Benjamin, Ruha - Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Skloot, Rebecca - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Shetterly, Margot Lee - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Autobiography/Memoir
Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Bernard, Emily - Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Broom, Sarah M. - The Yellow House
Brown, Austin Channing - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Coates, Ta-Nehisi - The Beautiful Struggle
Coates, Ta-Nehisi - Between the World and Me
Hinton, Anthony Ray - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
hooks, bell - Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Jones, Saeed - How We Fight For Our Lives
Khan-Kullors, Patrisse and Bandele, Asha - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Laymon, Kiese - Heavy: An American Memoir
Mock, Janet - Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime
Obama, Barack - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Obama, Michelle - Becoming
Shakur, Assata - Assata: An Autobiography
Welteroth, Elaine - More Than Enough
Wright, Richard - Black Boy
X, Malcolm - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Comedy
Bell, W. Kamau - The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Haddish, Tiffany - The Last Black Unicorn
Rae, Issa - The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Robinson, Phoebe - You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain
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Book List 2018
I’m a couple weeks behind on this, but here’s the list of books I read in 2018. I’ve broken it down by category, though this is pretty loose since, you know, genres bleed into one another and such. You can also find reviews of some of these books here, and I always take requests for reviews as well. Follow me on Goodreads to see what I’m reading and rating.
Let me know what you think if you’ve read any of these books or have recommendations, and, as always, please feel free to send me malicious personal attacks if I say something you disagree with.
Non-Fiction
Philosophy
Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried
The Pragmatic Turn by Richard J. Bernstein
Race Matters by Cornel West
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag
Ethics Without Ontology by Hilary Putnam
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf
The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love by Susan Wolf
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World by Owen J. Flanagan
Meaning in Life by Thaddeus Metz
The Human Eros: Eco-Ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence by Thomas Alexander
Naturalism and Normativity by Mario De Caro (Editor), David Macarthur (Editor)
Truth in Context: An Essay on Pluralism and Objectivity by Michael P. Lynch
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
Experiments in Ethics by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter by Peter Singer
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Enlightenment by Robert Wright
A Defense of Buddhist Virtue Ethics by Jack Hamblin
Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams
Reality, Art and Illusion by Alan Watts
Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
Science
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte
Why Dinosaurs Matter by Kenneth Lacovara
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us by Richard O. Prum
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean
Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
The Physics of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It by Alanna Mitchell
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
Visions for the 21st Century by Carl Sagan et al.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo
The Virgin and the Mousetrap: Essays in Search of the Soul of Science by Chet Raymo
Politics/Race/Gender
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (editor)
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Race Matters by Cornel West
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism by Cornel West
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Tears We Cannot Stand: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
The Common Good by Robert Reich
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Memoir
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
South of Forgiveness: A True Story of Rape and Responsibility by Thordis Elva
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker
The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman
My Own Life by David Hume
Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good by Kevin Smith
Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life by Tom Robbins
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
Calypso by David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Ink Spots by Brian McDonald
No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin
History/Biography
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang
Fiction
Literary Fiction
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Another Country by James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Home by Toni Morrison
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Dead by James Joyce
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
A Confederacy of Dunces by Jonh Kennedy Toole
The Dork of Cork by Chet Raymo
Genre Fiction
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Slice of Life by Kurt Vonnegut
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Pure Drivel by Steve Martin
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Green Mile by Stephen King
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 by Lemony Snicket
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Worst of 2018
Every single book I read this past year had redemptive value. Even if it was total garbage, it still taught me some stuff (like how not to write a book). Even a bad book can be a good book if you let it be.
So, here’re a few books that didn’t quite hit the spot for me:
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Ink Spots by Brian McDonald
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Best of 2018
It was genuinely difficult to choose my top books of 2018. What a literary year it has been for me. 2018 marks the most books I’ve read in a year, and I was lucky enough to come across some real game-changers. I finally read the Harry Potter series and, boy howdy, did it ever live up to the hype. What took me so long?? But this was, more than anything, the year of James Baldwin. He has made an indelible mark on me as a reader, a writer, and a human. What a year this has been! I hope to read a fraction as much beautiful, lovely, challenging, profound prose in 2019.
In no particular order, here are the books of 2018 that most moved me, shook me, rattled me, rolled me:
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
The Pragmatic Turn by Richard J. Bernstein
Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Well, there you have it, folks. Here’s to many more good books in the years to come!
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. —Ursula K. Le Guin
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Star Power / Ryder Lynn
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“So as we all know we have regional’s in four weeks, and yes we have lost a few of our biggest voices but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have any left.” Mr Schue said to his Glee club students.
“Which is why I have asked a very special someone to come in a helps us out.” Mr. Schue moved from the corner of the choir room and the door on the left hand side of the room opened to reveal Carter Cooper. She had away for the past few months or so due to her being in New York with her sister.
“Hit it!” Carter said as she entered the room and the beat to “Last Friday Night”
Carter looked around the classroom the see all of her smiling friends and glee club members.
She looked over at Ryder, her boyfriend of a year and a half he had the cheesiest and most handsome smile on his face and Carter loved it.
“There's a stranger in my bed
There's a pounding in my head
Glitter all over the room
Pink flamingos in the pool.”
Carter moved around the room walking up the stairs of the choir room to hug her best-friend Marley as she was singing, and then Jake.
“I smell like a mini bar
DJ's passed out in the yard
Barbies on the barbecue
Is this a hickey or a bruise?”
Carter moved to her boyfriend Ryder and wrapped her arms around his shoulders and he had the biggest smile on his face, moving around the front of him she sat on Ryder’s lap giving him a proper hug.
standing up she pulled Blaine and Brittney out of the chairs to dance with her in the middle of the classroom.
“Last Friday night
Yeah, we danced on table tops
And we took too many shots.”
“Think we kissed but I forgotLast Friday night
Yeah, we maxed our credit cards
And got kicked out of the bar.”
“So we hit the boulevardLast Friday night
We went streaking in the park
Skinny dipping in the dark
Then had a ménage à trois Last Friday night
Yeah I think we broke the law
Always say we're gonna stop, op (whoa, oh)
This Friday night, do it all again
This Friday night, do it all again.”
The three danced so much in sink it was like that they had already practised it before hand.
They all finished in position and the rest of the Glee Club cheered on the girl who had returned.
Ryder moved from his chair that was back on the second stair and picked his girlfriend up and spun her in a circle.
“I didn’t know that you we’re coming home early C.”
“Surprise!” She said back with enthusiasm in her voice.
“Now you see guy’s that is the type of energy, and passion that we need to win regional’s.” Mr. Schue said as he stood from his chair.
“And I want Carter and Ryder on the lead duet.”
**
“Honestly, why didn’t you tell me you were coming home?” Ryder asked as himself and Carter walked down the hallway towards his locker.
“Ryder, you need to calm down. I came home early because I wanted to and needed to see you.”
Ryder smiled as he opened his locker door.
“You don’t have to worry okay, the cancer isn’t back Ry, I’m going to be okay.” Carter said as she grabbed Ryder’s freed hand.
“I know, I just can’t lose you okay? So if it does come back You’ll tell me right?” He asked with hope in his eye’s.
“You’ll be the first to know.” Carter said then kissed Ryder in the lips, Ryder’s hand moved to Carter’s waist to pull her in closer.
“I’ve missed you.” Ryder said resting his forehead on Carter’s.
“I’ve missed you too, lover boy.”
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#amreading 2018 April 29 | 16:18:44
Daniel Usner. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992). (The Natchez revolt)
Edouard Glissant, “The Open Boat,” Poetics of Relation Translated by Betsy Wing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
Margo Crawford, “The Substance of Style: On Being Unapologetically Black Now,” The A-Line (blog), February 6, 2018, https://ift.tt/2JF2pLV.
Evan Turiano, “Two Visions of Abolition and Emancipation: An OAH ‘State of the Field’ Roundtable,” The Journal of the Civil War Era (blog), April 25, 2018, https://journalofthecivilwarera.org/2018/04/two-visions-abolition-emancipation-oah-state-field-roundtable/.
“DETOURS AND DISTANCE: An Interview with J. Michael Dash,” March 4, 2012, http://thepublicarchive.com/?p=3134.
Kiese Laymon – What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying | Literary Hub http://bit.ly/2HQAuvh
NewBlackMan (in Exile): Bill Cosby, Meek Mill and a City of ‘Brotherly” Love by Mark Anthony Neal http://bit.ly/2HwqQhR
Treva B. Lindsey: Bill Cosby 2018 trial: the guilty verdict was made possible by black women’s activism – Vox http://bit.ly/2r3GKVJ
Jamie Nesbitt-Golden: #Fasttailedgirls And Why The Sexual Assault Of Black Girls Is Not A Joke http://bit.ly/2r3xiBW
Diva Parekh: On their own – The Johns Hopkins News-Letter http://bit.ly/2JBjDtr
Button Poetry, Gabriel Ramirez – “On Realizing I Am Black” (NPS 2015), accessed April 28, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEQHRs_8F08.
Brittany Spanos, “Cover Story: Janelle Monae on Prince, New LP, Her Sexuality – Rolling Stone,” accessed April 29, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/cover-story-janelle-monae-prince-new-lp-her-sexuality-w519523.
Janelle Monáe interviewed by Ari Fitz, Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer YouTub Space Q&A, accessed April 29, 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE.
Treva B. Lindsey. Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.c. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2017).
Brittney C. Cooper. Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017).
Brown, Leslie. “How a Hundred Years of History Tracked Me Down,” In Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower, edited by Deborah Gray White, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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