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Border Nation: A Story of Migration by Leah Cowan

Border Nation: A Story of Migration

Leah Cowan

144 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina

Riot Days

Maria Alyokhina

195 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir politics challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire by

Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire

Abolition: Journal of Insurgent Politics

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art essays politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons by Cradle Community

Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

Cradle Community

216 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities by Isaac Ontiveros, Mariko Passion, Connie Burk, Alan Greig, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Meiver De la Cruz, Peggy Munson, Bran Fenner, Carol Gomez, Miss Major, Rachel Herzing, Shannon Perez-Darby, Gina de Vries, Jai Dulani, Gaurav Jashnani, Timothy Isaac Colman, Ching-In Chen, R.J. Maccani, Orchid Pusey, Juliet November, Morgan Bassichis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, gita mehrotra, Vanessa Huang, Andrea Lee Smith, Ana-Maurine Lara

The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities

Isaac Ontiveros, Mariko Passion, Connie Burk, Alan Greig, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Meiver De la Cruz, Peggy Munson, Bran Fenner, Carol Gomez, Miss Major, Rachel Herzing, Shannon Perez-Darby, Gina de Vries, Jai Dulani, Gaurav Jashnani, Timothy Isaac Colman, Ching-In Chen, R.J. Maccani, Orchid Pusey, Juliet November, Morgan Bassichis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, gita mehrotra, Vanessa Huang, Andrea Lee Smith, Ana-Maurine Lara

361 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

272 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

155 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez

The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

Óscar Martínez

275 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology dark slow-paced
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

208 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender race sociology informative reflective slow-paced