This list of reads has immensely influenced my intellectual lineage. May they move you closer to your own personal recoveries, collective mercies and any needed discoveries. Each title shimmers with a substantive offering of some sort. Some books possess perspectives that don’t fully resonate with my praxis; however, I’ve included them here in appreciation of their more seminal contributions which have informed and evolved my thinking on a plethora of issues. Go slow with them. Sit still with them. Be in silence with them. Shout aloud with them. Shift your body with them. Soothe your spirit with them. Open your mind with them. Shake the table with them. Savor and study them.
The Black Curator / Kemuel Benyehudah
The Friendship Bench / Dixon Chieanda
Defy / Dr. Sunita Sah
Prose To The People / Katie Mitchell
Love And Whiskey / Fawn Weaver
The Artist Way / Julia Cameron
Learning To Trust / Dr. Sabrina Williams
We Flew Over the Bridge Faith Ringgold
To Be a Problem / Dara Baldwin
Rooted / Brea Baker
Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender / Langston Hughes
Scattered and Fugitive Things / Laura Helton
What it Takes to Heal / Prentis Hemphill
We Refuse / Kelly Carter Jackson
The Resilience Myth / Soraya Chemaly
Disabled Ecologies / Sunaura Taylor
It’s Not You, it’s Capitalism / Malaika Jabali
Radical Joy for Hard Times / Susan Griffin
Force and Freedom / Kelly Carter Jackson
Ancestor Said / Ehime Ora
The Address Book / Deirdre Mask
Skin, Tooth, Bone: A Disability Justice Primer / Sins Invalid
No More Police: A Case For Abolition / Andrea Ritchie & Mariame Kaba
How To Tell A Story / The Moth
The Devil Never Sleeps / Juliette Kayyem
Facilitating Breakthrough / Adam Kahane
Essentials Of Health Justice / Joel B. Teitelbaum
Disaster and Human Trafficking / Mondira Dutta
Disaster Recovery Through The Lenss of Justice / Alessandra Jerolleman
Disasterology / Samantha Montano
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy… / Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
The Politics Of Trauma / Staci Haines
How To Be An Anti-Racist / Ibram X. Kendi
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity… / Dean Spade
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage &… / Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katherine K.
Emergent Strategy / Adrienne Maree Brown
The Art Of Creative Thinking: 89 Ways… / Rod Judkins
The Age of Dignity / Ai-Jen Poo
Pleasure Activism / Adrienne Maree Brown
We Will Not Cancel Us / Adrienne Maree Brown