Recs if you like Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto...

Writing and voices from outside of the white Western canon. Fiction and Non-fiction with an emphasis in diaspora, decolonization, global history, and resistance narratives from around the world. Features African, Asian, Central American, South American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern voices.

Began with many recommendations from Jamin Anderson (@jaminanderson__ on Instagram) and has expanded with the help of the Pagebound community.

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

Looking for fiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite Novel*.

Book titles that represent reasons you might go to the doctor, what you might say to each other, or what treatments might be offered to cure your ailments. It's up to you to decide what is what😉

(This is not a commentary on these books or authors! The focus of this list is purely on the titles---but if you find a favorite new read here, I'd love to know🤭)

If you've ever thought that non-fiction was boring, dense or just "not made for me" this list is, in fact, made for you.

books for the spoonies, crips, & other disabled bodyminds. to read when ur feeling slow & sick & cant keep up with everyone else & want to be empowered/comforted. these are books that offer a different view on rest & being out of time/space w everyone else, either by framing rest/sickness as empowering, subversive, or neutral, or by offering a non-ableist way to accomodate disabled bodyminds.

prioritising audiobooks bc 4 me theyre easier to read on low spoon days

"self-help" books that situate themselves within both subjective experience and structural analysis - approaching healing and liberation as mutually informing individual and collective work.

while the world tries to divide us, let's entangle roots and stories and hearts and build communities and connections that outlast the dark times. Together we can heal, together we can thrive. These books will make you feel less alone and help you grow real life connections 🤍

Let's break through the fog of the capitalist, racist, colonial system that is holding all of us down. For a new world, we need new perspectives. (this list is from a white european girl, so PLEASE also seek out recommendations from BIPOC creators!!)

expanding the self-help genre - personal development - holistic health & growth - centering BIPOC self-help authors - reclaiming wellness as radical

please comment suggestions, this is a growing exploration :)

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

Read about society, class consciousness and the actions we can and should take to get back our power

books that are well known in the therapy & mental health world - often read & recommended by therapists, social workers, and other professionals in the field 💕

For anyone who wants to live in a matriarchal society, since clearly something needs to change.

A syllabus

Because sometimes you want alternatives to The Artist's Way

for Caitlin 💜 to be further refined self-help, manifestos, memiors, and general learning forget podcasts and random background shows, it's time for audiobooks! (I haven't read most of these so, sorry if they're bad!!)