Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars  by John Brackett

“Harmony Hammond’s gentle wisdom informs her profound illumination of the expanded and inclusive history of feminist-inspired artmaking over six decades. Defending feminist abstraction while exploring inscriptions of lesbian desire in diverse art processes, Hammond’s precious, historic writings are prefaced by editor Tirza True Latimer’s contextual introductions. This major feminist archive becomes a vital art historical resource through both authors’ feminist fidelity to our continuing struggle.” - Griselda Pollock, Professor Emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds

“Jason Edwards offers a sophisticated, meticulously researched, and deeply thoughtful picture of the warp and weft of textile as an organizing metaphor and a committed practice of artmaking for Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Reparative Craft makes a surprising contribution to Sedgwick’s ideas and to the history of fiber, unfolding as a story of living, making, and thinking that reorients queer theory’s relationship to art.” - David J. Getsy, author of Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art

“California Futures is an important revisionist history of the state we call California. Through a powerful range of case studies, Daniel Lanza Rivers demonstrates the many entangled ways that settler colonialism and extractive capitalism have impacted (and continue to impact) the lands, peoples, identities, and futures of ‘California’.” - Melissa K. Nelson, Professor of Indigenous Sustainability, Arizona State University

“A welcome expansion of the terrain. Catherine John has offered an original, rich, and nuanced interpretation of Afroindigeneity in our time. In the words of John’s mother, quoted in the book: ‘the world needs this one.’” - LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, Director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center and Professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, UNC Chapel Hill

“A masterful contribution in its indictment of our static and mono-directional understanding of ‘passing’ as an implied choice. Harvey’s analysis is sharp, well written, and brings light to new ways of thinking about subjects as diverse as Black Lives Matter Movements to colonial studies and philosophy as ‘passing zones’ that seek to further eradicate the rights of Black, Indigenous and ‘othered’ subjects.” - Andrew Jolivétte, author of Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community

“In We See with the Skin, Kheshti’s brilliance as ethnographer and archivist transforms five lost words into a groundbreaking Hurstonian analytic. Her bold synesthetic approach and meticulous archival work reframe Hurston as a theorist, not just performer, offering a revelatory contribution that reshapes Black studies and deepens Hurston’s intellectual legacy.” - E. Patrick Johnson, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women

“Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.” - Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. Through her curatorial practice, Sharpe marshals the collective intellectual heft and aesthetic inheritance of the African diaspora to show us the world as it appears from her distinctive line of sight. A searing and brilliant work." - Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

“Black disabled genius is crucial to the work of creating a free present and future. In Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk does so much absolutely brilliant Black queer disabled femme labor of surfacing buried Black disabled activist histories and organizing lessons. Her book is a Black queer disabled love offering, and reading it made me shout for joy and learn so much. I’m so grateful this book is in the world. Read it and give thanks that we get to share the world with the brilliance of Schalk and the organizers she writes about—then get to work putting into practice the lessons you’ve learned, so we can win.” - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

“Passionately exploring queer rave culture, Raving is the fantasy and the moment. There are drugs and sex, tangled love affairs, rejection, the highs and lows of the dance floors, and all the messiness that makes up a rave evening. A potent book.” - madison moore, author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

“From the moment I received Sara Ahmed’s new work, Living a Feminist Life, I couldn’t put it down. It’s such a brilliant, witty, visionary new way to think about feminist theory. Everyone should read this book. It offers amazing new ways of knowing and talking about feminist theory and practice. And, it is also delightful, funny, and as the song says, ‘your love has lifted me higher.’ Ahmed lifts us higher.” - bell hooks

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Migration is shaped by shifting political forces, environmental pressures, cultural ties, and deeply personal motivations. Selections in this reading list explore how systems of control, labor, security, race, gender, and climate intersect with lived experiences of movement across borders.

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With Trump’s second term and the rise of right-wing leaders globally, the 2016 election appears less like an anomaly and more like part of a broader rightward shift. This reading list explores how to make sense of this shift by examining its historical context and significance. As these questions arise in many discussions, we offer a collection of books, journal issues, and articles to help readers navigate this political moment.