For those of us that traveled to the south in the summer to visit family Joy Takes Root by Gwendolyn Wallace, art by Ashleigh Corrin hold up a mirror. In this book Joy learns a lot from her Grammy about gardening, relaxing and her connections to history. #30Books30Days #Book9

"The Light She Feels Inside has a twofold purpose — helping children recognize their feelings and using those feelings to create change... The Light She Feels is an excellent resource for home or the classroom." via Jessica Harrison crackingthecover.com/23115/light-sh…

To the brave students: if you want AK Press books at your encampment, please reach out to us at [email protected]! Photo credit: Hannah LaFollette Ryan, who photographed a camper at the City College Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Harlem reading Constructing Worlds Otherwise.

I spy The Light She Feels Inside in that stack! So cool Mychal 💛

lil life update: I’ll be starting my PhD this year at MIT in their HASTS program, a joint degree between their History, Anthropology, & Science, Technology, and Society departments. Text or DM me if you’ll be Boston-based this fall!

If you like a book then Please, leave a positive review online. Adults and their unchecked/righteous bigotry are the BIGGEST problem when it comes to making children’s books, especially for diverse authors. Your reviews make a difference against BS like this below.

"Identity Politics" is a term coined by The Combahee River Collective, a group of Black feminists. It's the analysis of how the intersections of race, gender, and class affect the lived experiences/oppression of Black women. Yall are misusing the term.

I simply think "biological woman" should not be a term that people who want to take gender justice seriously let pass their lips

In the aftermath of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, June Jordan and Audre Lorde had a falling out over the issue of Zionism. I've traced it across three archives, and it may be the most important story I've ever told. Read it, but more importantly, read June Jordan.

As June Jordan said, “We are not powerless. We are indispensable despite all atrocities of state and corporate policy to the contrary... At a minimum we have the power to stop cooperating with our enemies. We have the power to stop the courtesies and to let the feelings be real.”

Breaking: Israeli occupation forces have just targeted another school in Gaza City early this morning. So far, 100 people have been killed, mostly women and children.

This is so sick and cruel. If you think we need to negotiate the freedoms of one oppressed people for the freedoms of another, I fear you’ve missed the plot entirely…

Our beloved Refaat Alareer (Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸) wrote these words in October, but they had not been published until now. Electronic Intifada is grateful to have the honor to share them with the world. When I read them, I can hear his voice. electronicintifada.net/content/unpubl…

November 2023, five Alchemists convened to discuss their radical visions of the beautiful world. Their treatises have been captured and luminously expanded in the pages of this book with an introduction by Christina Sharpe. FIVE MANIFESTOS FOR THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD is out today!

Here is a 20 page poetry book written by Khaliifah Ibn Rayford Daniels (Marcellus Williams). flipsnack.com/E8AAF7EEFB5/pe…

“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, some of us have not died. Some of us did not die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?” -June Jordan, 2001