Resist 2025: Learn/Grow/Act

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34 participants (12 books)

20 Jan 2025—20 Jan 2026

Overview

For anyone looking to grow and learn how we can survive the next, hopefully only, 4 years. Set a goal to read one book a month about sustainable resistance and grow the conversation from an intersectional lens.

Challenge Books

1

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

2

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

3

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

4

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

Laura Kaplan

5

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

Kekla Magoon

6

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

Alice Wong

7

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality by Renee DiResta

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

Renee DiResta

8

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

9

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

10

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

Kaitlin B. Curtice

11

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

12

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

Kazu Haga