Monday, January 15, 2018

Books Read in 2018

JANUARY
1. What is This Thing Called Love by Kim Addonizio
2. Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman
3. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
4. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
5. Something Sinister by Chayan Harara
6. Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal
7. Lessons on Expulsion by Erika L. Sanchez
BLACK RADICALISM MONTH
8. Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell
9. A Burst of Light and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
10. Affirmative Acts: Political Essays by June Jordan
11. Incendiary Art: Poems by Patricia Smith
12. Absence in the Palms of My Hands by asha bandele
13. Captivity by Toi Derricotte
MARCH
14. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
15. El Deafo by Cece Bell
16. New People by Danzy Senna
17. Bicycles: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
18. Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays by Fenton Johnson
19. Transnational Battle Field by Heriberto Yépez
20. Fight Fascism edited by World War 3 Collective
21. Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism by Craig Fortier
22. Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing by Charif Shanahan
23. Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela by George Ciccariello-Maher
24. I Know Your Kind by William Brewer
APRIL
25. Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman
26. Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason
27. Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
28. We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
29. Trans Homo... GASP!: Gay FTM and Cis Men on Sex and Love edited by Avi Ben-Zeev and Pete Bailey
30. We Come Elemental by Tamiko Beyer
31. Cruel Futures by Carmen Giménez Smith
MAY
32. The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
33. I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa by John Gibler
34. Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Myles
35. Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics edited by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and O.K. Fox
36. Overpour by Jane Wong
37. Lost Property by Andy Poyiadgi
38. Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green
39. Earth Vowels by Duane Niatum
40. Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
41. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
JUNE
42. Black Hammer: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormstrom, and Dave Stewart
43. Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
44. You & a Bike & a Road by Eleanor Davis
45. Banthology: Stories from Banned Nations edited by Sarah Cleave
46. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
47. No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. LeGuin
48. Eleven by David Llewellyn
49. Spinning by Tillie Walden
50. Waltz with Bashir: A Lebanon War Story by Ari Folman and David Polonsky
51. Selah by Keith Jarrett
52. There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
53. Walking with Ghosts by Qwo-Li Driskill
JULY
54. Towards the Source by Quakers in Wales
55. Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir by Jenny Forrester
56. A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
57. Royal City: Next of Kin by Jeff Lemire
58. Some Ether by Nick Flynn
59. Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security by Todd Miller
60. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
61. Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
62. Islanders by Teow Lim Goh
63. Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance by Fady Joudah
AUGUST
64. Salvador by Joan Didion
65. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
66. What Runs Over by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
67. Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Doom by Jeff Lemire and David Rubin
68. Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich
69. I'm Not Here by gg
70. Nothing Lasts Forever by Sina Grace
71. Threat Come Close by Aaron Coleman
SEPTEMBER
72. Tenements, Towers, and Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz
73. AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
74. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
75. The Dream of Reason by Jenny George
76. The Animal Too Big to Kill by Shane McCrae
77. A.D.: After Death by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire
78. Queer Sex:  A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure, and Relationships by Juno Roche
79. Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell
80. Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
81. Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
82. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
83. almost any shit will do by emji spero
84. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
85. Depending on the Light by Thea Hillman
86. Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
87. Just Jesus: My Struggle to Become Human by Walter Wink
OCTOBER
88. I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
89. Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
90. Don't Let Them See Me Like This by Jasmine Gibson
91. Passing for Human by Liana Finck
92. In the Still of the Night by Dara Weir
93. Black Hammer Volume Two: The Event by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ornmston, Dave Stewart, and David Rubin
94. Feminisms in Motion: Voices for Justice, Liberation, and Transformation edited by Jessica Hoffman and Daria Yudacufski
95. Flemish by Caroline Knox
NOVEMBER
96. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
97. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
98. Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino
99. The Underbelly by Gary Phillips
100. Blues for Mister Charlie by James Baldwin
101. Why Art? by Eleanor Davis
102. The Carrying by Ada Limón
103. Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
DECEMBER
104. The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker by Arnaud Delalande and Eric Liberge
105. Quaker Faith and Practice by Ireland Yearly Meeting
106. Adrian and the Tree of Secrets by Hubert
107. Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
108. Apocalypse, Darling by Barrie Jean Borich
109. Vivas to Those Who Have Failed by Martín Espada
110. Good Times by Lucille Clifton
111. People Are Tiny in Paintings of China by Cynthia Arrieu-King
112. Body Music by Julie Maroh

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Movies I Love

Before I Disappear
Being There
Bombay Beach
Harold and Maude
Just Another Girl on the IRT
Lazy Eye
The Royal Tenenbaums
Strike a Pose

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