Task #3: Read a book about activism.

[Jason]

As a teacher, I felt it was finally time to read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire.

[Ron]

Jason wrote: "As a teacher, I felt it was finally time to read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire."

Oh nice. I've had this book on my tbr for a year. Just don't know when I'll get to it.

[Evilblacksheep]

Would that fit as activism : Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance ?

[Eleonora]

I read The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs for this prompt and loved it.
As an autistic disabled queer woman, the themes in this book really resonated with me. But I think everyone could benefit from reading it, to gain perspective and information on a powerful movement.
Couldn't recommend it more!
The other books from the author are already on my TBR.

[Sherri]

I read The Invention of Wings

[Stina]

Monica wrote: "Ginger wrote: "I would prefer a fiction book. I will look into this one. Can anyone else recommend good novels about activism?"

If you like near future speculative fiction Radicalized..."

My husband has been recommending that to me for ages, so maybe now is the time!

[Evilblacksheep]

I'm currently reading Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement and I'm not sure if it would count or not for this prompt. (but it's a very interesting book so far)

[Julia]

I have already read two novels about two tweens trying to change their worlds, both contemporary novels set in the here and now. I recommend both:

Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King about book banning.

Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera about square dancing.

[Ron]

This topic is so broad so I wouldn't even know where to start.

[Tammy]

I'm currently reading the YA novel Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro, and it definitely seems like it would fit.

Also, here's a list of books on Activism & Organizing, for early childhood through adult readers:
https://socialjusticebooks.org/bookli...

[Cheryl]

Ginger wrote: "I would prefer a fiction book. I will look into this one. Can anyone else recommend good novels about activism?"

was already on my TBR when I found it listed as activist fiction.

[Tricia]

Has anybody read Take My Hand? Wondering if it would count. I read it last week and it seemed like it might.

[Bonnie G.]

Tricia wrote: "Has anybody read Take My Hand? Wondering if it would count. I read it last week and it seemed like it might."

Seems like a good fit to me!

[Briana]

Man, so many good suggestions here. From these I'm either going to read: Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, or Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds.

I would love to read something about community building as well, so I might look into books on that topic. Some of my maybes are:
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change

[Elizabeth]

Elizabeth wrote: "I have a few books on my kindle that would fit this task that I'm hoping to get to this year, but right now I'm leaning towards starting with We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba."

I still plan on reading this one this year, especially since it fits another challenge I'm working towards (and also I just really want to and already have a copy?), but for this task I read Wage Slaves by Daria Bogdanska. It's a graphic memoir where she describes her work environment as an immigrant in Sweden and how she worked with a union to fight back against workplace abuses.

[Julia]

Have some more titles to offer:

The Jump by Brittney Morris YA fic

The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes fic

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II by Molly Guptill Manning non fic

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi non fic

[Joanna]

I read Olga Dies Dreaming for this one.

[Lisa]

I just attended the NCORE conference in New Orleans and picked up a book “The Purpose of Power: How we come together when we Fall apart,” by Alicia Garza about building movements. It’s a memoir of an organizer. Alicia was the co-founder of Black Lives Matter.

[Erin]

I just checked out Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann from the library and realized it fits this prompt!

[Martha]

And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems by Erica Martin

[Alex]

Has anyone read Rainbow Parenting or Birnam Wood? Wondering if either of those would fit this prompt.

[NancyJ]

Alex wrote: "Has anyone read Rainbow Parenting or Birnam Wood? Wondering if either of those would fit this prompt."

Birnam Wood sounds more fitting since the MC is an activist. It sounds really interesting to me.

[Mirabai]

I had been thinking of doing Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 but as it's been lingering on my bookshelf for awhile, I may do Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot