Active Hope: How to face the mess we’re in with unexpected resilience and creative power by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (Non-Fiction Book) – see also the Active Hope website for free online courses and other useful information

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Non-Fiction Book)

The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Non-Fiction Book)

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman (Non-Fiction Book)

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua

Meditations in an Emergency: essays and analyses by Rebecca Solnit – “Every emergency is in part a storytelling emergency. The ability to tell your own story is already a victory”

The Wisdom of the Divergent Voice by Kai Cheng Thom – Article exploring the benefits of enabling divergent voices within activist and other spaces

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown – How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in ”Pleasure Activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work.(Non Fiction Book)

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde – classic essays still relevant today from the renowned Black lesbian activist poet, published in the 1970s and 80s