One of my goals this year is to educate myself as much as I‘m able to stomach about what‘s going on. So far this year, I‘ve read a few books (currently listening to Stacey Abrams Our Time Is Now and reading Angela Davis‘ Freedom Is a Constant Struggle) and these are all on my agenda. Right stack is most directly involved, left is supplemental. Also following some great thinkers on fbook and Substack that I‘ll share below. Let‘s be bricks/mortar!
ravenlee I follow Heather Cox Richardson, Jay Kuo, Robert Hubbell, Joyce Vance, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucian Truscott, and Rebecca Solnit. It can get overwhelming with all the daily updates, but I‘m doing my best to keep afloat. 4d
ravenlee Recent helpful reads: Eric Hoffer‘s The True Believer (definitely read this! It‘s eye-opening; about mass movements and who joins them), Caroline Frederickson‘s The Democracy Fix (about the right-wing long game to dominate the federal judiciary and gerrymander their way to power); and Rachel Carson‘s classic Silent Spring (which reminds me why we must remain in this fight) 4d
TiredLibrarian I read The True Believer in college and still have a copy; it might be an apt time for a re-read. 4d
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Deblovestoread Thank you for this post. 💙 4d
HeyT I'd also recommend Sarah Kendzior's work. She has been pretty spot on with her predictions about how things were/are headed. She also has a pretty good substack. 4d
ravenlee @HeyT thanks for the recommendation; I went to stack some of her books and found I already had at least one stacked. I‘ll look for her substack, too. 4d
Christine What a great goal and excellent stacks and shared resources. I really appreciate the reminder re: the Hoffer book – just had to run to my shelves to confirm that I‘d bought it last year (and then promptly forgot to read). 4d
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