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Margaret Killjoy is an author, musician, crafter, and general jack of all trades. She has spent most of her adult life on the road, but is currently nestled into the Appalachian mountains. You can find her writing at margaretkilljoy.substack.com.
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The amazing story of a bunch of punks and poets who started the modern conception of harm reduction through criminal direct action and a stubborn refusal to ask for permission to save lives. One of the main sources I used for my episodes about harm reduction.
A very readable account of the teens who seduced and killed Nazis in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation, and one of my favorite sources for my episodes about the Dutch resistance.
My main source for the episodes I did about Peter the Painter, and maybe the most compelling account of the 1905 revolution I've ever read. This story has it all... prison breaks and may day parades, daring escapes by sleigh through the snow, and was written by a historian who practical devoted his life to uncovering the mystery of the folk hero Peter the Painter.
The best history books are the ones where the authors become obsessed with their subjects, and it shows that Molly spared no effort in writing a compelling and thorough analysis of one of the most important movements in the history of the Left. Specifically, this book provides a crucial counter-narrative to Zionism. It says yes, Jewish people have a legacy they can draw on. They have traditions, they have culture, and it doesn't need to be rooted in the imperialist Zionist project.
I read excerpts from this on Book Club in two parts (one and two) and I'm obsessed with how Dean Spade takes complicated ideas and makes them so, so simple. This is the clearest and most direct explanation of how to get a mutual aid project going and how to maintain it.
I got an advance reader's copy of this book and loved it and this is the blurb I came up with:
Madeline Ffitch writes like no one else, and Avalon, Rise is a book like no other. It's a refreshingly honest look at antifascism and small town life, and I've been talking about this book to everyone I meet ever since I finished it.
A short story collection that includes the story "Black Hole," by November Rush, that appeared on Book Club, about fungal space parasites who are madly in love.
One of the best sci-fi authors in history set his mind to analyzing climate change and the diversity of tactics and the grand scale of work that might be necessary to bring us out of a tailspin. To be frank, it can be a bit dry in places, but it's one of the most important books I've ever read and I think of it all the time.
Science fiction that lays out an idea (not a blueprint, just an idea worth discussing) about how we might try to get to a better world. What happens if we build an entire, functioning society of dropouts?
My anarchist utopia book, and look I love all my book-children equally but this is the one that when I finished writing it I felt like it would be okay if I died because I'd accomplished something I'd always desperately wanted to do: tell the world what I believed, through narrative.
Three stories told by the characters of the Danielle Cain series that flesh out the world. It includes thinly veiled autobiography and it includes the darkest story I've ever written (thankfully, these are two different stories) and maybe the most honest writing about death I've ever done.
