Recs if you like Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice...
๐ซต Books To Radicalize You ๐ซต
Non-fiction books that should make you: Re-contextualize your place in the world. Reassess the framework of your life. Strive to be radically kind. Pursue positive change. Become an anarchist, anit-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, etc. || My list is very North American centric and I would love global recommendations ||
the government never cared for us ๐ฎ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐๐๏ธ
required reading for learning praxis, fighting fascism & neoliberalism, and embracing protest and uprising against capitalism and violence. not central to the U.S. additionally, includes books on queer politics, disability rights, indigenous fights for landback and much more. now is the time where it is more vital than ever that we sacrifice ourselves for the greater good. get educated folks.
Queer and Disabled
Intersectionality, baby! Disability includes many conditions, including - but not limited to - physical disabilities, chronic illnesses, psychiatric disabilities, sensory disabilities, and neurodivergence.
Blending Memoirs with Research, Poetry, Culture
Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.
You're not mad enough!
If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer
But WAIT. Thereโs Hope. โจNON-FICTIONโจ
Straight from the Solarpunk Manifesto, โWe are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.โ
What if thereโs more to our future? What if we were optimistic?
Below are the non-fiction books that have made it to O.E. Tearmannโs Open List of Positive and Hopeful Futures
Feel free to suggest any recs!
Taking Our Precious Time
This house runs on CPTโ๏ธThese books explore subversions of hegemonic time, including queer time, crip time, black time, mad time, and postcolonial time. Suggestions welcome!
Community Reflections
Handbook for the Revolution
Why we need a revolution and how we get there
tending our fire
"self-help" books that situate themselves within both subjective experience and structural analysis - approaching healing and liberation as mutually informing individual and collective work.
pandemic realism
despite collective abandonment and effective propaganda, the pandemic is ongoing. COVID continues to kill and maim people as it spreads unmitigated worldwide. these are books crucial to the study of the public health realities weโre up against as eugenics and fascism escalate - from disability justice to science communication to social movement histories.
books by disabled authors ๐
books written by disabled authors
Why they burned the books
History is really just a convenient story if it's the government or a company pushing the narrative. Investigative and alternative perspectives to popular history.
Nothing About Us Without Us: Non Fiction
A collection of books by a range of disabled authors exploring what it means to navigate a world that isnโt built with accessibility in mind. Personal stories with sharp insight, these works challenge what we think we know about disability, chronic illness, mental health, neurodiversity, the myth of recovery, and what it means to belong.
List is a work in progress!
PAIN au chocolat
These books try to get to the root of what pain is and where it comes from and how humans have tried to treat it. From chronic illness, disability to medication. Nonfiction regarding health, women's health, mental health, painkillers, opium, the body and autoimmune diseases. This list is NOT about finding healing (since that is a very individual journey) but how to be seen and understood and how to find the words to describe pain and sickness.
care (work) & interdependence
affective & emotional labor | redefining intimacy | cultivating community & relationships | dreaming care webs & pod mapping | collective care
Disabled Baddies to The Front
Centering own voices, but inclusive of disability theory
Disability History
A collection of books that trace the history of disability, revealing how societies have understood, treated, and often marginalized disabled people over time. From shifting medical ideas to social movements for rights and inclusion, these works show how the past continues to shape the way disability is experienced today.
Much of the reseach and published work on disability history has traditionally centered on white, western persepctives which can overlook the experiences of disabled people of other cultures and regions. I'm open to suggestions and discovering more inclusive books to broaden the view and knowledge of our histories.
Educating yourself because ignorance kills
"I want to live in a World where people who learn about harm to others care more about ending it than proving they aren't causing it." - feminist next door
Non-Fiction to Survive the Ameripocalypse
Non-fic on how we got here and how to sustain eachother going forwards. A mix of difficult history, revolutionary and abolitionist works, and optimistic pathworking. Decolonial and anti-imperialist at the core.
