
Liberation and the Cosmos
by Barbara A. Holmes
Creatively imagined conversations between the elders about the shape and conditions of liberation.

Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
edited by Ashish Kothari, et al
Essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the dominant processes of development

Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley
Online and in-person courses, bookclubs, information; founded by john a. powell

Prepared Neighborhoods
by Scott James
Stories of building resilience into urban cities, small towns, and communities

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm
by Kazu Haga
A mindfulness-based approach to personal and social transformation

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs
by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Facing the multiple crises of modernity–and hospicing modernity–with maturity, humility, and integrity.

Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse
by Kazu Haga
Meeting harm with harm (in individual, familial or collective coflict) does not work to diminish harming. Kazu Haga suggests a response shift that speaks to the roots of harm with a focus on healing: combining nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the consciousess-shift of spiritual practice. It's quite amazing how much of what is suggested here is happening in a meditation studio near you. :)

Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
Examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped modernity and shows how it defines society by a hierarchy of human divisions.

My Grandmother's Hands
by Resmaa Menakem
A call to action and an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.











