Summer Book Club Continues!

“I don’t have hope, I do hope. It’s an active process that I have to regularly commit to— hope not as an emotion but as a discipline. Hope for me is grounded in the reality that wondrous things happen alongside and parallel to the terrible. Every single day.”

--Mariame Kaba

Reminder that tomorrow (Saturday) is the next installment of 8th House's summer activist book club! Please feel free to drop by the Zoom to discuss this book with us even if you read it like a year ago, or haven't read it but just want to listen in on the conversation.

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Two longtime organizers explore the political lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, from mutual aid to mass protests, and how we can learn from them in a future where these tools continue to become more important.

Saturday, July 26
12 pm - 2 pm PST
Zoom link here

The authors have created a free printable workbook here, and there's a discussion guide with further resources available here, which I'll use both to help guide our conversation and to suggest some ongoing actions / reflections / activities we can work on together.

I've been terrible about timely reminders for this so here's August in advance for your calendars:

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too
Ijeoma Oluo
This book brings together a wide range of activists to share how they're making change in fields like gender justice, abolition, labor, and the arts, with concrete actions the rest of us can take in our own communities.

Saturday, August 30
12 pm - 2 pm PST
Zoom link here

The reader companion for this book also offers discussion questions, journal prompts and direct actions for each chapter which we'll use in our discussion as well!

Look forward to seeing you all there!