Monday, January 11, 2021

2021 Reading

 JANUARY
1. Black Hammer Library Edition Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire, with Dean Ormstom, Dave Klein, and Todd Klein
2. Flying Horses by Jeanne Lohman 
3. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
FEBRUARY
4. Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence by Joel Christian Gill 
5. Trans Care by Hil Malatino 
6. For Now by Eileen Myles 
7. In the Hairy Arms of Whitman by Bill Kushner
8. Deer Woman: An Anthology edited by Elizabeth LaPensee and Weshoyot Alvitre
9. Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos 
10. Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Post-Partum Depression by Teresa Wong 
11. Ascender Volume 1: The Haunted Galaxy by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen 
12. One Story by Gipi 
MARCH
13. Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane 
14. Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore by Colette Inez 
15. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Juno Mac and Molly Smith 
16. Ascender Volume 2: The Dead Sea by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen 
17. Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin
18. Ascender Volume 3: The Digital Mage by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen 
19. Stone Gathering: The Relevance of Rural edited by Deborah Jacobs
APRIL 
20. Szygy, Beauty by T Fleischmann 
21. Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe by Ali Fitzgerald 
22. There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists edited by Cindy Milstein
23. Our Work is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose 
MAY 
24. To Survive On This Shore by Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre 
25. Trauma X: Holding Space Radically by Vo Vo 
26. Family Pictures by Gwendolyn Brooks 
27. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 
JUNE 
28. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'a Williams 
29. Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods 
30. The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson 
31. We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill 
32. Waterbaby by Nikki Wallschlaeger 
33. Llewellyn's Little Book of Tarot by Barbara Moore
JULY
34. Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff 
35. The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution by Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams
36. When the Chant Comes by Kay Ulanday Barrett 
37. Flood Song by Sherwin Bitsui
38. Mindful Tarot: Bring a Peace-filled, Compassionate Practice to the 78 Cards by Lisa Freinkel Tishman 
AUGUST 
39. Talking to the Diaspora by Lee Maracle
SEPTEMBER 
40. Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya by Jamaica Kincaid 
41. We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba 
42. Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini 
43. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc 
OCTOBER
44. Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar 
45. Unremembered Country by Susan Griffin 
46. Guillotine by Eduardo Corral
NOVEMBER
47. Wake: The Untold History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, illustrated by Hugo Martínez 
48. The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and the Revolution by Susie Day 
49. White Magic by Elissa Washuta 
50. Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson 
DECEMBER
51. Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount 
52. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
53. Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators edited by the Education for Liberation Network and the Critical Resistance Editorial Collective 
54. Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought edited by Briona Simone Jones 
55. Green Glass Ghosts by Rae Spoon
56. Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin edited by Susan DeFreitas 
57. Hawkwings by Karen Lee Osborne 

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