Puff the Magic Hater Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Kelly Hayes is an author, organizer, and educator. Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts @movementmemos | https://t.co/gSBQVjUMBP | @mskellymhayes.bsky.social | More: https://t.co/mS8uBZRaHR

Star Trek: Ships of the Line Posters
Cbs
DS9 time. Tonight, I'm watching two of the most politically radical episodes in Trek history: Past Tense parts I and II. Mostly set in 2024, Past Tense centers on "The Bell Riots" — an Attica-style rebellion that makes the future depicted in Star Trek possible. #StarTrekDay
Bookbook - Detail Unspecified, 2017
$12.98$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Actual Star
Monica Byrne
I mostly read nonfiction, but I've been chipping away at the book The Actual Star by @monicabyrne13 for months now and finished it this morning, and damn. What a fucking book. 🔥 So many feelings y'all.
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin
Reading The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin this morning.
Paperback, 2004
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Angela Y. Davis
About halfway through Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners and Beth Richie. As expected, an essential text.
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
Shira Hassan
This week on @MovementMemos, I talk with Shira Hassan about harm reduction, healing justice, and her new book, Saving Our Own Lives, which is full of radical knowledge and histories that can help us navigate this moment. https://t.co/8B2LQaIYnA
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Mariame Kaba
.@ejeris says of Let This Radicalize You (which will be released May 16!): "Holding hope amid a dystopian world, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba created a book that will serve our movements for years to come." To preorder: https://t.co/MwwBf8dipU https://t.co/hSw4rszRCP
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Barbara Ransby
Saw someone ask recently about long reads that are worth the journey & I want to recommend Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by @BarbaraRansby. If you're not used to long books, don't be intimidated. It's a great read. Ebook & audio available.
Paperback, 2005
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
@DanEsrey @dereckapurnell I loved Becoming Abolitionists too! I also highly recommend: Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law, “Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration by Victoria Law, and We Do This Til' We Free Us by Mariame Kaba.
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Albert Woodfox
Just learned that Albert Woodfox died yesterday. I have never read Solitary and I think it's time to correct that. https://t.co/yHe0wnWwjj
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy
Joanna Macy
I read that in Active Hope by Chris Johnstone & Joanna Macy btw.
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