I've actually been able to read this month! More successfully than the last few anyway. Let's hope that continues. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris. What an amazing book. Really gets into the mix of racism and sexism that makes Black girls targets for overpolicing and overpunishment in schools, even by well-intentioned people. I've been pushing it on a lot of people who work in education, because we need to open our eyes and our ears and do better. Twitter read-along. Buy or Borrow. Capitalism and Disability: Essays by Marta Russell. This set of interconnected essays is a really great primer on Marxism and how disabled people cannot get free in a capitalist system. Capitalism is designed to exploit the maximum amount of labor for workers with the minimum amount of respect for humanity. We are human but we are not super-producers. (That said, there's less racial analysis that I would have liked personally. I still recommend it but it's good to know that going in.) Twitter read-along. Buy or Borrow. White Whiskey Bargain by Jodie Slaughter. Sometimes you want an escapist romance because real life is too grim. Fun, sweet, interracial romance featuring some whiskey bootleggers fighting rich racists. Yay! (Includes some violence and m/f sex scenes.) Buy or Borrow. Library Trends, Volume 68, Number 3, Winter 2020, Strange Circulations: Affect and the Library, edited by Kate Adler and Lisa Sloniowski. I haven't made it through every article in this issue yet, but so far I've found two standouts that I enthusiastically recommend:
Let Your Motto Be Resistance: Henry Highland Garnet, episode 49 of the History of Africana Philosophy podcast. Nineteenth century Black disabled abolitionist and advocate for violent resistance when needed, peer of Frederick Douglass. Listen here, or on Apple or Spotify. Healing The Land IS Healing Ourselves episode of the All My Relations Podcast. Capitalism teaches us how to consume but not what comes next, what to do with the remains of our consumption. Listen here, or on Apple or Spotify.
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