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14/3/21 | 5/53 Days of Productivity

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House library   -  Laura Lacambra Shubert

American,b.1960s-

2020.11.10

"There is the person you came back to: his face and body and voice and scent and touch, his way of waiting until you finish whatever you're saying, no matter how lengthy, before he speaks, the way his smile moves so slowly across his face that it reminds you of a moonrise, how clearly he has missed you and how clearly happy he is to have you back."

hi anon! thank you, this is a very kind message. i don't necessarily feel super patient tonight, but i do try T___T

the following list of readings is in no particular order other than the one it came to my mind in, and it certainly isn't exhaustive, but all of these definitely profoundly influenced the way i analyze us politics today. please note that i am focusing here primarily on internal politics and history, although it is obviously necessary to understand how the empire acts and has acted abroad to fully understand how it acts at home. it's mostly because it's super late here and this is a very informal rec list, i promise i will eventually post a curated list about imperialism and us foreign policy. please note also that some books are on there because i found them deeply illuminating but i do not necessarily agree with all their theoritical conclusions.

- stokely speaks: from black power to pan-africanism - kwame ture

- revolutionary suicide - huey p. newton

- black marxism: the making of the black radical tradition - cedric robinson

- how to read donald duck - ariel dorfman, armand mattelart

- killing for coal: america's deadliest labor war - thomas andrews

- the american ideology - samir amin

- an indigenous peoples' history of the united states - roxanne dunbar-ortiz

- john brown - w. e. b. du bois

- the strange career of jim crow - c. van woodward

- before the mayflower - lerone bennet jr

- prison writings - leonard peltier

- settlers - j. sakai

- malcolm x speaks - malcolm x

- the invention of the white race - theodore w. allen

- the other slavery: the uncovered story of indian enslavement in america - andrés reséndez

- black bolshevik - harry haywood

- the new jim crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness - michelle alexander

- black reconstruction in america - w. e. b. dubois

- live from death row - mumia abu-jamal

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Day 25 - Tag someone who gives good advice

20|08|2020

Day 39 of My Summer Studying Challenge!

✨ 20th August ✨  If you could make up a new ice cream flavour, what ingredients would you use? What would you call it?

i’ve been thinking about this and i think that an ice-cream version of the cocktail i’ve created this summer would be INCREDIBLE and so refreshing. it’s strawberries, limes and mint essentially and i think it would taste great in ice-cream form. i would probably just call it the same thing: ‘strawberry smash mojito’