Works of Inspiration and Recommended Readings
Here are some writings and inspirations that have helped me make sense of my role as a human, educator, and kin in relation with the world. There are endless other thinkers and ideas who have helped shaped my practice, too many to name here, and I am humbled by these visionaries and the worlds their words and vulnerabilities create. I always welcome suggestions for new resources.
While I have book titles linked to their listings on Bookshop.org, a website where proceeds go to local bookshops, I encourage you to utilize public libraries, mutual aid groups, and other organizations or resource collections to access these texts in formats most accessible to you. If these works impact you and your thinking, be creative and intentional with how you share these works with others in effort to bring others up with you.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
This book was foundational for me to begin to repair my relationship with academia and science.
"Decolonization is not a metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang
This piece deeply informs my practice and pushes me to extend my work into the field of activism, as is my responsibility as an educator on stolen land.
Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong
The stories in this collection helped me understand what crafting a practice rooted in disability justice might look like.
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
The ideas and reflections in this book helped me understand what having an educational praxis oriented towards liberation means.
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
In a changing world, this book acted as a guide to inspire my practice to be flexible, adaptable, and therefore, more honest, reflective, and grounded in justice.
Start Here Start Now by Liz Kleinrock
This guide helped me formulate practical and theoretical ways to educate from an antiracist lens.