Our Bookshelf
Some books that inform and inspire us (in no particular order)
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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build The Worlds We Need
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds
Arturo Escobar
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Changing, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
adrienne maree brown
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
We Decide! Theories and Cases in Participatory Democracy
Michael Menser
A Postcapitalist Politics
J.K. Gibson-Graham
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That is Shaping the Next Economy
Nathan Schneider
Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Kali Akuno, Ajamu Nagwaya and Cooperation Jackson
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Edgar Villanueva
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
Lewis Hyde
In Defense of Housing
David Madden & Peter Marcuse
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Davis
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarcerations in America
Elizabeth Hinton
Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice
bell hooks
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Teaching to Transgress: Eduction as The Practice of Freedom
bell hooks
Community: The Structure of Belonging
Peter Block
Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity
Arnold Mindell
The Spirit of Dialogue: Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict
Aaron T. Wolf
The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
Michael P. Nichols, Phd.
The Empathy Exams
Leslie Jamison
We Will Not Cancel Us And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
adrienne maree brown
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the World
Kai Cheng Thom
Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
Ann Russo
No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality
Jordan Flaherty
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
adrienne maree brown
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
Nick Montgomery & carla bergman
The Book of Delights: Essays
Ross Gay