This groups meets Sundays via Zoom from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm PT. Send us an email to join the current Poli-Ed Reading Group or just show up!
Our next book is TBA
- Sunday, January 4: TBA
- Sunday, January 11: TBA
- Sunday, January 18: TBA
- Sunday, January 25: TBA
- Sunday, February 1: TBA
- Sunday, February 8: TBA
*some dates may change due to availability
Books, movies, & essays we’ve previously discussed:
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)
by Dean Spade
http://www.deanspade.net/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next/
Study Guide created by Radical in Progress
Starship Troopers (1997)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts
by Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, Rommy González (Illustrator)
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis
Links to interviews about Abolish Rent
They Live (1988)
Directed by John Carpenter
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba
Discussion Guide: Discussion questions and further resources, curated by Rachael Zafer
**Workbook and discussion guide from https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-let-this-radicalize-you
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Health Communism
by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant
Health Communism with Beatrice Adler-Bolton on Upstream: https://sites.libsyn.com/435210/health-communism-with-beatrice-adler-bolton-in-conversation
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Bug’s Life (1998)
Directed by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton
Practicing New Worlds:
Abolition and Emergent Strategies
by Andrea J. Ritchie
Neptune Frost (2021)
co-directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman
- “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” by Audre Lorde.
- “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” by Audre Lorde
- “Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness” by bell hooks
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
by Cedric J. Robinson
Conflict is Not Abuse
by Sarah Schulman
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
by Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie
Futures of Black Radicalism
edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin
Possible future reads:
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal
Disability Intimacy: essays on love, care, and desire
One of adrienne maree brown’s books (We Will Not Cancel Us. Pleasure Activision )
Outgrowing Modernity: navigating complexity, complicity, and collapse with accountability and compassion by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse by Norma Wong
All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders -Abolitionist Frameworks and Practices from Clinicians, Organizers, and Incarcerated Activists. Foreword by Rachel Herzing Edited by Ronica Mukerjee and Carlos Martinez
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven Thrasher
Embodied Activism: Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection by Rae Johnson, PhD
Mutual Aid LA Network 
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