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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes
4.58 AVERAGE
995 reviews for:
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes
4.58 AVERAGE
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Good solid intro for newer activists and organizers.
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But just as we do not abandon people we love who are in crisis, we have not given up on humanity. We have witnessed transformation too often to dismiss its possibility, and we have an obligation to that possibility in individual lives and in larger groups of people.
I will freely admit - my imagination is limited when I try to picture a kinder, softer, non-capitalistic world. Every book I read expands my imagination a little bit more, but I still struggle with seeing how we get there.
Enter this book, the first book I’ve read that not only knits so many ideas I have picked up in other reads, but also one that has allowed me to see the path forward to this anti-capitalistic world.
This book focuses on Hayes and Kaba’s lessons learned from a lifetime of community organizing. This is meant to be a starting point, to inspire you to see how mutual aid and care are sharp antidotes to harms that capitalistic societies inflict, and what to consider as you organize to push for the type of world you want to see.
More than anything, this book radicalizes you to hope. This book is an active reminder that hope is a practice: you need to have it to defy the odds, and all organizing and caring is pushing back against the odds. However, there are no odds if you don’t try at all.
Every single chapter in this short but mighty book is peppered with incredible insights that dispelled so many of the doubts I harbored over violence in protests, using facts to persuade others, and the feasibility to inviting others with conflicting views in. My only critique is the chapters aren’t consistent, with the latter ones feeling unusually long-winded and disjointed.
Still. I cannot recommend this hopeful, healing read enough to everyone who has ever felt despondent over the state of things. It will gently shake you of your doubts, and remind you that the world we want is possible - as long as we don’t give up on it.
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This is an excellent book by prominent community organizers Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba. It's not necessarily a how-to book, but it is a perfect thing to read if you've been inspired by your first big protest and you want to know what to do next. It's a invitation to hope and collectivity against individuality and numbness due to the enormity of the injustices.
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