#social justice books

[poppletonink]

Hermione Granger: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky

The Tales Of Beedle The Bard by J.K. Rowling

A Short History Of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

The Book Thief by Markus Susak

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Anne Of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Recitatif by Toni Morrison

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

[s1lentassassin]

Back on my reading goals! Next up....

[theaudiobookanalyst]

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

I just finished The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, and it was a great audiobook! The narrator (Bahni Turpin) was a perfect fit.

The Hate U Give is a book about speaking up in favor of truth and justice even when others try to silence you with fear.

Starr Carter saw two of her friends die, and she has the chance to tell the truth about what happened to one of them. The media paints him as a drug-dealing thug, but Starr knows the truth. Now she must decide whether or not to fight for justice for her murdered friend despite the threats.

This book dealt with some extremely difficult topics, but it dealt with them in a way that did not diminish the reality of the issues or dramatize them. Even though I am not a woman of color, I almost felt like I could understand Starr's point of view; that's how well the book was written.

It should be noted that there are a lot of swear words (including plenty of f-bombs) in this book. However, given the fact that this takes place in somewhat recent years (at the time of writing), it actually adds to how realistic the story feels. I personally prefer books that don't swear, but given how the swearing contributed to the character voices, I can't dock a star in my review for that. Stylistically, it makes sense.

Trigger warnings - Strong language (f-bombs included) - Violence (specifically gang violence and police brutality) - Death - Drugs (drug addicts and drug dealers) - Alcohol - Racism - Abuse

[justalittlesolarpunk]

Solarpunk Sunday Suggestion:

Get a library card

[lovedecember]

Every elder in Palestine have their old homes keys because they believe that one day they'll be back again ..

[liberaljane]

bark bark

Digital illustration of a big fluffy white dog standing on two books. There is text that says, “be mean to transphobes’

[thefinaljohnson]

[longroadhomesblog]

Why Libraries Are Important (even if you don't read)

Libraries are a essential public service.

they are open sunday-sunday

they are for everyone

they have public washrooms

they have computer access x printing ability

they offer free complete learning

they are a safe space

they create a stronger community

PROTECT LIBRARIES AT ALL COST.

[4ft10tvlandfangirl]

Book recommendations for reading on Palestine with overviews or access to the content:

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 - 2017 by Rashid Khalidi

The Palestinian - Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Bunton

Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine edited by Diana Allan

Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

The Palestine Laboratory - How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé

A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Huraini (Afterword by Malise Ruthven for later editions)

[hussyknee]

This is insane. This is actually insane. If anyone had told me this could be a thing in September I would have called them a tinhat.

I've been tracking down I/P conflict recs lists and downloading as many books and articles in them as I can find. Tracked down both Leila Khaled's autobiography and her biography by Sarah Irving on LibGen as well. All of them have been uploaded to my gdrive. You can find it in the Poetry and Literature subfolder in the Palestine section. Go nuts.

Btw there's a site called "Accountability Archive" (@archivegenocide on twitter) promoting itself in the wake of all this; it's pretty sus and seems to be one of those SJ "activist" groups that exploit Global South trauma and exclude their voices. Do background checks on all your allies, folks, and look at whether they're boosting impacted communities or talking over them.

[the-overanalyst]

i was thinking about this and about how, despite this person being absolutely right, the traumatized villain still feels so much more intuitive to us, more realistic even. why is that? is it just an oversaturation of the trope? is it human rationality insisting that everything needs a reason? in that case, is it naivete? denial about who our real life villains are? (something something you're more likely to become homeless than to become a billionaire) maybe it's easier for the average person to imagine rage at becoming what they dread than dissatisfaction despite having everything they want. and when you do get a fictional villain who has never suffered, these characters don't feel human, because our average-person rationale just doesn't apply to them. the real life villains mentioned in the tweet might as well be living in their own fantasy world.

[intersectionalpraxis]

A lot of booktok creators on tiktok have made lists of creative fiction authors who openly supported the IOF (this is just one of many), and I highly recommend for those who read a lot/are part of the booktok community to look into this as well to know what you are indirectly and directly are supporting.

Important update folks: The zionist-supporting author that people tried to educate Fairyloot about was Gabrielle Zevin, and NOT Hannah Grace. The boycott is company-specific. I just want to add this since someone said this was because of Hannah, but it's not.

[mysharona1987]

[gobcorend]

"When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it."

-- Ayn Rand in her book 'Atlas Shrugged'

ICJ rulling are legally binding, but no power to enforcment... It is not clear if Israel will comply.

[itscolossal]

A New Book Reveals Ernest Cole’s Clear-Eyed Photos of Civil Rights America

[spookyradluka]

"The most difficult women are the angry ones. The ones who refuse to “let it go,” think happy thoughts, or eat their feelings. For reasons I will never understand, men are given a free pass when it comes to anger. But women are expected to figure out a way of disposing of theirs, as though it were a dirty diaper."

In Praise of Difficult Women by Karen Karbo