Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Excited for this important new book by @erika.nesvold from @mitpress to be out in the world! The current race to colonize space is a repetition of old and tired patterns. We can do better.

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Spent the weekend with this magnificent novel by Lakiesha Carr and I want to hand it out like candy to everyone, especially other Black women. So glad it was featured at my local @BNBuzz! https://t.co/3GbjKS2YHe https://t.co/oCk9JeitV4

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People always talk about Native Son as Richard Wright’s classic because it’s fiction but his memoir Black Boy is so brilliant and not widely appreciated enough https://t.co/TAShK96h3S

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Two forthcoming books that so far I’m finding totally fascinating! One is by a mathematician who works at an art school and the other is by a humanities professor. Love to see this kind of breadth in science writing 🖖🏽

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Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of books out there about the global climate catastrophe? Unsure of what’s actually useful to read or what you need to know? I’m finding both of these books to be enormously useful reads.

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It’s 2022 and you’re like “I need to learn to be a better ally to Black women but I don’t know where to start”? No problem, I recommend @BadFatBlackGirl’s Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist Easily one of the best books of 2021: https://t.co/d4XCwY3Yal

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Hortense Spillers literally talks about what I would summarize as “language fucking.” bell hooks writes about this practice in teaching to transgress, too, in a discussion about Adrienne Rich.

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A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems by Joseph L. Graves Jr.! https://t.co/YAQOL0E62u

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This book has been on my mind a lot in light of the #Dodgers fiasco. Art has always been an important element of resistance to oppression, and the Sisters are part of a proud late 20th century tradition of queer resistance to deathly policy through art. https://t.co/NnKMxBPfyh

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THIS Wednesday May 11, 7 PM pacific: I will be in person at my old stomping grounds, Bookshop Santa Cruz, in conversation with my former graduate adviser Anthony Aguirre, author of Cosmological Koans, which is a quite beautiful book. https://t.co/PdsnQWLzl2