Preferably relevant books about about social constructs, history, feminist theory, economic injustice. I’ve read Invisible Women , the Making of Biblical Womanhood, and Man’s Search for Meaning (all great books!!)
I read mainly fantasy but with the current political system and awakening toward historical and present day atrocities , I’d like to be well informed.
Thank you!
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The Dawn of Everything. The book was written in response and against pop science books like Sapiens, The Better Angels of our Nature and Gund, Germs & Steel. All of which are massively influencial among mainstream western elites, but have been heavily critized by other scientists and academics. The book is basically a collectiom of the major counter arguments and criticism
The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. The US Genocide against the Native Americans is still ongoing. There are books that address what has happened after Wounded Knee, but this book really opened my eyes to the real history of our government’s war against the indigenous people.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann,
Brazen by Julia Haart, Doctored by Sandeep Jauhar
Becoming Nicole. Lots to learn about being trans and when to transition, told through on family’s experience.
The Black wave, Kim Ghattas
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson -about the prison and justice system in US
I highly recommend “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond
Against this Loveless World. You will be mad after reading it. It is fiction though.
Confessions of an economic hit man
Reluctant fundamentalist
The concrete jungle by Upton Sinclair
War is a Racket
Gangsters of Capitalism
Love in Exile by Bahaa Taher
In the early 80s, a divorced Egyptian journalist living away from his country and family finds renewed romance in a western european country, both are politically active in their own ways, yet also cocooned from the reality of what’s happening as horrors gradually emerge in Israeli occupied Lebanon and the subsequent infamous Sabra and Shatila massacre on Palestinian refugees (perpetrated by a Lebanese nationalist militia with full support by the Israeli Defence Force).
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder – you won’t be able to see what’s going on in many populist governments around the world and in the daily news cycle without thinking about what you read in this book.
American War – Omar Akkad – near future speculative fiction by Canadian Egyptian writer. It’s about the radicalization and grooming of young terrorist/suicide bombers, showing how ‘it could happen here’ or anywhere given the right circumstances.
**Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation** – Silvia Federici
Its about the history of the role of women under capitalism at its inception and how capitalism has commodified women’s bodies. Amazing book, super interesting (especially in regard to the witch hunts)
**A Short History of Trans Misogyny** – Jules Gill-Peterson (Titles is self-explanatory, history of misogyny against trans women)
**The Jarkarta Method** – Vincent Bevins
Its about the CIA’s anti-communist murder campaign since the second world war.
**The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth** – Andreas Malm
Its about the impact of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians on the climate and colonialisms / capitalism’s contribution to climate change in general