Rad Mini Library

Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety Cara Page (Author); Erica Woodland (Author); Aurora Levins Morales (Foreword) From AK Press: In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide readers through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice—a political strategy of collective care and safety that intervenes on generational trauma from systemic violence and oppression. They call forth the ancestral medicines and healing practices that have sustained communities who have survived genocide and oppression, while radically imagining what comes next. Anti-capitalist, Black feminist, and abolitionist, Healing Justice Lineages is a profound and urgent call to embrace community and survivor-led care strategies as models that push beyond commodified self-care, the policing of the medical industrial complex, and the surveillance of the public health system. Centering disabi...

Great resource from @theconsciouskid  "This collection of children’s books centers and uplifts Palestinian voices and stories, which are often erased, suppressed or punished. It also includes books by Arab and Muslim authors that affirm Arab and Muslim identities and provide opportunities to educate about Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. Stories have a profound impact on shaping perceptions, and in turn, actions. The narratives that we are told and surrounded with shape how we see and treat each other. Through the power of storytelling, we invite young readers and their families to dispel stereotypes, foster empathy and challenge racism, Islamophobia and dehumanization." https://www.theconsciouskid.org/palestine

From @haymarketbooks Poet, writer, scholar Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed with his family this week in Palestine. Attendees at his vigil in Chicago flew kites and recited his poem "If I must die" If I must die, you must live to tell my story  to sell my things  to buy a piece of cloth  and some strings,  (make it white with a long tail)  so that a child, somewhere in Gaza  while looking heaven in the eye  awaiting his dad who left in a blaze-  and bid no one farewell  not even to his flesh  not even to himself-  sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above  and thinks for a moment an angel is there  bringing back love  If I must die  let it bring hope  let it be a tale