Rad Mini Library

My review: Liberated to the Bone by Susan Raffo is such a relevant guide to locating and dealing with the white supremacy violence we all carry, and she speaks directly to privileged people (white cis-gendered people) on our unwillingness to change and stop the violence. She also gives a historical account, specific to Minneapolis, on this country's "two original wounds: Indigenous disappearance and anti-Black racism." Raffo repeats throughout the book that the first step of healing justice (concept of Cara Page and The Kindred Collective) is to stop violence. But what happens if you are in a S/state of perpetual violence? During a Climate Solutions conversation this weekend, my friend and multi-disciplinary artist  Jovan C. Speller said there is really no police presence in her new home of rural Minnesota, so she is far less anxious about potential violence, compared to living in a city. This is what people in rural areas may or may not know - some of our friends literal...

Agitated: Grupos Autónomos and Armed Anticapitalism in Spain, 1974-1984. Joni D (Author)  Paul Sharkey (Translator) Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry. adrienne maree brown (Author) The Set Boundaries Workbook: Practical Exercises for Understanding Your Needs and Setting Healthy Limits. Nedra Glover Tawwab (Author)

An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World by Patrisse Cullors From AK Press https://www.akpress.org/an-abolitionist-s-handbook.html In An Abolitionist's Handbook, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors. An Abolitionist's Handbook offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. Cullors asks us to lead with love, fierce compassion, and precision. In An Abolitionist's Handbook readers will learn how to:  - have courageous conversations - move away from reaction and towards response - take care of oneself while fighting for others - turn inter-community conflict into a transformative action - expand one’s imagination, think creatively, and find the courage to experiment - ...

Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy carla bergman (Editor); Matt Hern (Foreword) From AK Press https://www.akpress.org/trust-kids.html Trust Kids! weaves together essays, interviews, poems, and artwork from scholars, activists, and artists about our relationships with children in all areas of our lives. The contributors of Trust Kids! write from different backgrounds, genders, ages, and sexualities and combine past lineages with more recent child-rearing ideas to offer a fresh, inspiring perspective. Many works on parenting and families wind up re-inscribing hierarchies by declaring how kids should be liberated. Trust Kids! insists on youth autonomy, listening to youth, and questioning adult supremacy on every page. At the heart of the book are conversations about all the ways that children can be included, loved, and cared for in more generative, just, and egalitarian ways. Its essays explore the liberatory potential of consent and autonomy in rel...

  The Rad Mini Library now has toothpaste and toothbrushes! Trail mix and hand warmers are restocked! The books are mostly gone, but more will be added next week. South Minneapolis!

Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk https://samischalk.com/black-disability-politics/ In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been andcontinue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement. Drawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Health Project alongside interviews with contemporary Black disabled cultural workers, Schalk identifies common qualities of Black disability politics, including the need to ground public health initiatives in the experience and expertise of marginalized disabled people so that they can work in antiracist,...

After the Revolution. Robert Evans (Author) We Won't Be Here Tomorrow: And Other Stories. Margaret Killjoy (Author)