inclusivity, care, agency, and growth

Reading that is continually freeing me to (re)negotiate and prefigure a life within the cracks.

  • A Call for Revolution, The Dalai Lama
  • A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage
  • Am I Normal?, Sarah Chaney
  • The Anarchist Imagination, edited by Carl Levy and Saul Newman
  • Art as an Experience, John Dewey
  • Badass: Making Users Awesome, Kathy Sierra
  • Being Wrong, Adventures in the Margin of Error, Kathryn Schulz
  • The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
  • The Care Manifesto, the politics of interdependence, The Care Collective
  • The Compassionate Mind, a New Approach to Life’s Challenges, Paul Gilbert, PhD
  • The Conquest of Bread, Piotr Kropotkin
  • Creative Connection, Natalie Rogers
  • The Drunkard’s Walk, How randomness rules our lives, Leonard Mlodinow
  • Encyclopedia Brown, Donald J. Sobel
  • Essentialism, Greg McCowan
  • Highly Sensitive: Practical strategies for understanding emotions, managing relationships, and maximizing your potential in an overstimulating world, Linda Hill
  • Judeaism as a Civilization, Toward the Reconstruction of American-Jewish life, Mordecai M. Kaplan
  • The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
  • The Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward
  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
  • No dig gardening, raised beds, layered gardens, and other no-till techniques, Bella Linde and Lena Granefelt
  • Nonviolent Communication, 2nd edition, Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD
  • Parenting with Presence. Practices for raising conscious, confident, caring kids, Susan Siffelman, MFT
  • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Irving Goffman
  • The Problem that has No Name, Betty Friedan
  • Prisons in Turmoil, John Irwin
  • Radical Help, Hillary Cottam
  • Salt, a World History, Mark Kurlansky
  • Social Theory for Action, William Foote Whyte
  • Street Corner Society, William Foot White
  • Teaching Critical Thinking, Bell Hooks
  • Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks
  • Unfinished Business, Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
  • When the Body Says No, Gabor Maté
  • Your Money or Your Life, Vicky Robbin and Joe Dominguez
  • Zero the Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Charles Seife