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jé judson
1–2 minutes

Currently Reading

Just Finished: Let This Radicalize You
In the Midst of: Braiding Sweetgrass
Past read relevant to the moment: Elite Capture

Previous Reads

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brown, adrienne marie

Pleasure Activism

Ward, Jesmyn

Salvage the Bones

Hurston, Zora Neale

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Cooper, Brittney

Eloquent Rage: A Black feminist discovers her superpower

McFadden, Bernice

Gathering of Waters

Shire, Warsan

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Sanchez, Sonia

Homegirls & Handgrenades

Walker, Alice

The Color Purple

Alexander, Michelle

The New Jim Crow

hooks, bell

All About Love: New Visions

Jones, Tayari

Silver Sparrow

Giovanni, Nikki

Black Feeling Black Talk

Guy, Rosa

The Friends

Lorde, Audre

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Butler, Octavia

Parable of the Sower

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun

Gwendolyn Brooks

Selected Poems

Sister Souljah

The Coldest Winter Ever

Shonda Rhimes

Year of Yes

Don Miguel Ruiz (still reading)

The Four Agreements:…

Marie Kondo

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Charisse Jones & Kumea Shorter-Gooden

Shifting: The Double Lives…

Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe…

Harriet Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History…

Harriet Washington (still to read)

Deadly Monopolies…

bell hooks (still to read)

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Frantz Fanon (still to read)

Wretched of the Earth

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed