Rad Mini Library

  Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. https://www.alexispauline.com/books  From the author's website: Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observation to show what they might teach us, producing not a specific agenda but an unfolding space for wondering and questioning. From the relationship between the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale and Gumbs’s Shinnecock and enslaved ancestors to the ways echolocation changes our understandings of “vision” and visionary action, this is a masterful use of metaphor and natural models in the service of social justice.

The Most Beautiful Thing. Kao Kalia Yang (Author)  Khoa Le (Illustrator) The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest. Lynne Cherry (Author) What the Road Said. Cleo Wade (Author)  Lucie de Moyencourt (Illustrator) Uncle Bobby's Wedding. Sarah S. Brannen (Author)  Lucia Soto (Illustrator) A Kid of Their Own. Megan Dowd Lambert (Author)  Jessica Lanan (Illustrator) Little Pig Saves the Ship. David Hyde Costello (Author) Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me. Eloise Greenfield (Author)  Ehsan Abdollahi (Illustrator)

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns. Archie Bongiovanni (Author)  Tristan Jimerson (Author) The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism. Murray Bookchin (Author)  Todd McGowan (Afterword by) The Weight of the Stars: The Life of Anarchist Octavio Alberola. Agustín Comotto (Author)  Paul Sharkey (Translator) Black Blocks, White Squares: Crosswords with an Anarchist Edge. Leonard Williams (Author) Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving. Merissa Nathan Gerson (Author)

Hey there - this book is in the mini library, along with Dean Spade's Mutual Aid handbook, as well as fresh garden green beans and dresses / skirts I outgrew ;-) Let's take care of each other.

Mutual Aid: Building solidarity during this crisis (and the next) Dean Spade  http://www.deanspade.net/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next/  From the author's website: Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.   Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable.   Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides ...

  Added to the Rad Mini Library!  My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem From the Publisher:  In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police. My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond...