Reading Group

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 will be Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong. We will start discussing the Introduction and Poem 1 on May 17th. Schedule TBA.

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

Edited by Alice Wong

We are currently reading Embodied Activism: Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection by Rae Johnson, PhD.

Embodied Activism: Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection

by Rae Johnson, PhD

  • Sunday, March 22 – Forward, Preface, and Chapter 1: Reconsidering, Reframing, and Retooling
  • Sunday, March 29 – Chapter 2: Our Body Stories
  • Sunday, April 5 – Chapter 3: Coming to Our Senses
  • Sunday, April 12 – Chapter 4: Rewriting our Body Language
  • Sunday, April 19 – Chapter 5: Reshaping Body Image
  • Sunday, April 26 – Chapter 6: Activism in Embodied Relationship
  • Sunday, May 3 – Chapter 7: Bringing it all Home

*some dates may change due to availability

Books, movies, & essays we’ve previously discussed:

Image of book cover. White background with black text. Red graphic shaped like a virus in the center with a black silhouette of a head in the inside of it.

The Viral Underclass:
The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide


by Steven W. Thrasher

Reading Guide

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

Teaching Guide

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

Printable workbook

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

https://www.beatriceadlerbolton.com/health-communism

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

Reading & Discussion guide

Neptune Frost (2021)

co-directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman

  1. “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” by Audre Lorde.
  2. “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” by Audre Lorde
  3. “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:

Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care by Lynne Segal

Disability Intimacy: essays on love, care, and desire edited by Alice Wong

We Will Not Cancel Us or Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

Outgrowing Modernity: navigating complexity, complicity, and collapse with accountability and compassion by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

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

Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together by Dean Spade

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public by Susan M. Schweik

A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson

Feminist, Queer, Cri by Alison Kafer

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel

Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by Michael Parenti