veronica mauldin

Phenomenal book. I'd spent my whole life like many other Americans, primary hearing history told through the American mythos brought over by European/Christian colonizers. Every school should teach from this book! They even make a young adult version.

bell hooks, in multiple books of hers, has helped me grasp intersectional feminism, my own misandry and how patriarchy hurts men too. As someone who loves men, it felt hard holding the fact I was also angry at them for the culture of abuse they've inflicted on women for centuries. It was an anger that lived in my heart and soul and hooks words helped me begin to heal that part of me, so I could love the men in my life.

When I first became curious about Palestine in 2017, my friend suggested this title to me. I learned so much about how American's invest in Israel's military destruction, surveillance and genocide, and how these systems reflect our own prison industrial complex in the states.

Another book I think should be taught in schools! Baldwin's writing it beautiful and accessible as he describes what America is really like for Black men. This book rips your heart out and sets is ablaze.

This book is devastating. I will never forget Davis's description of what American soldiers did to Vietnamese women during the war in the 60s/70s and how that treatment was similar and, in some ways, worse to enslaved African women in the states.

This book made me feel so connected to earth and especially fungi! I loved how Sheldrake had me thinking a lot about how nature works and survives in community, I think American's really need that message right now.