These books were what I planned to read for Black August. More context can be found at jacky.wtf/essays/2024/black-august and jacky.wtf/essays/2024/on-black-august.
My Black August 2024 Reading List Public
Created by jacky
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jacky says: This was the first book I read for Black August. A solid whirlwind into the use of prisons and incarceration by states to avoid and control political dissenters.
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba, Tamara K. Nopper, Naomi Murakawa
5 stars
A reflection on prison industrial complex abolition and a vision for collective liberation from organizer and educator Mariame Kaba.
“Organizing …
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Surviving the Future by Shuli Branson, Raven Hudson, Mimi Thi Nguyen
Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. …