Recs if you like The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project...

A list of books about how we remember, or avoid remembering history.

Commemoration, memorials, monuments, narratives, and rhetoric.

Philosophical, creative and social justice themes. Decolonization focused.

Considering statues, museums, journalism, books, etc. with nuance and depth.

Creative expression x political themes

Nonfiction on critical theory + political history of art & craft.

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(In progress)

Books that focus on the AIDS epidemic (mostly US, mostly the 80s-90s - though not exclusively). This includes history, sociology, cultural criticism of the time, and even fiction. This is such an important era to understand modern politics - especially queer politics and the LGBTQ+ community