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Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS by Marika Cifor

Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS

Marika Cifor

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America by Russ Baker

Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America

Russ Baker

577 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

512 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

162 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

5.0butch's review
fiction classics play emotional reflective medium-paced
Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro by Fidel Castro
Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro
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Fidel Castro

Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro

136 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction economics education historical philosophy politics sociology challenging inspiring reflective fast-paced
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

316 pages • first pub 1972 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture

Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism

Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture

256 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Magnified by Minnie Bruce Pratt

Magnified

Wesleyan Poetry

Minnie Bruce Pratt

88 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
dayliGht by Roya Marsh

dayliGht

Roya Marsh

112 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom by Erica Meiners, Alice Kim, Jill Petty

The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom

Erica Meiners, Alice Kim, Jill Petty

250 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective slow-paced