Previous thread is over here.

I forgot to update this yesterday since I was at work.

As usual: no crackers allowed.

Here, you can:

vent

chat

gush

inquire

etc.

about, well, anything, ig.

Bonus discussion question:

What are your favorite books about BIPOC and EM people?

Could be about individuals, a few individuals, or a social history (or, well, everything having to do with EM_BIPOC peoples).

Mine is kind of a "basic opinion" but it's:

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Read it right when it came out.

And I knew it was going to be a "classic" (or, at least, on many peoples' "to-read" lists).

Of course, I'm an obscurist, sort-of. I recommend more obscure works, but this one really stood out to me back when it first came out. I had a professor that also recommended the book and had us all read it in class. I believe they were Apache.

On the topic of "obscure" works, I would recommend Henry Winston's Strategy for a Black Agenda, which is my favorite work on such topics as Pan-Africanism and violence vs. non-violence (and whether and how to use both or when).

Anyway, take care!

  • heartheartbreak [fae/faer]
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    9 months ago

    Web dubois' black reconstruction and harry Haywood's black Bolshevik are two ancient tombs full of unimaginable knowledge that the movement has yet to truly contend with

    • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Haywood's book was a pain to hunt down when I first heard of it, can confirm it is a good book, need to read more Dubois.

        • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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          9 months ago

          When I first looked for it I couldn't find it there and had to dl off archive.org's library which took a good min, but I want to say this was well over a year ago.

          • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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            9 months ago

            Archive.org for books isn't a bad bet though.

            There's always this, for example (Ismail's archive):

            https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou

            • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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              9 months ago

              Right. I forget what I was trying to check out now, it wasn't related to theory, a translation of some ancient bronze age poetry book, but the only way to get the book was to check it out and the whole process was so glitchy.