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Which book should we read next?
7-15$
Holding Change
"Holding Change is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other."
5-10$
We Will Not Cancel Us
"Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. Itβs time to think this through."
12-17$
Sand Talk
"A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability--and offers a new template for living."
16$
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
"Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era"
60$
Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone
"Nieto offers a powerful analysis of the psychological dynamics of oppression and privilege, and shows readers how to develop the skills that can promote social justice for themselves and those around them."
The Return of Book club
π£οΈ "I would SOOPER love to do this! @MorganicMovement, @Rachel and I had been talking about reading βHolding Changeβ together so maybe we wait on that and do it as a group! " - Zevi
π£οΈ "Long live book club!"
"Thanks for picking this back up @ezraU. Lots of great suggestions. I like We Will Not Cancel us. Sand Talk is so good too, could be nice and generative."
- Seth
π£οΈ"HELL yes. I also got Holding Change a couple weeks ago, and I would love to read that with a group.
"Book Club has been reading Emergent Strategy for a little over a year at this point, including the 6ish months the club has been in flux / dormant. We are almost to the end, but that being said: it does take us a while to get through a book together. I think weβd finish Emergent Strategy within 2 months, but Iβm not sure of the specifics. We Will Not Cancel Us is short but juicy β only 86 pages to Emergent Strategyβs 274."
π£οΈ "I'm also still in the Race for Technology // Ruha Benjamin camp βΊ - Ryeder
Past Talks
Tyson Yunkaporta
Tyson Yunkaporta
Ellie recently facilitated a Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta, SourceCred and greater community around the topic of Governance.
This discussion was recorded via Zoom and will be shared far and wide when the footage becomes available!
Previous Readings
16$
Emergent Strategy
Emergent Strategy
Written by Adrienne Maree Brown
<< Returning Wednesday February 16th @ 2-3:30pm PST >>
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride!
Adrienne Maree Brown, co-editor of Octaviaβs Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.
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