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Subtitle: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness Rhonda V. Magee is a Black woman law professor at the University of San Francisco. She has studied mindfulness in depth, and uses it to get through difficult conversations about race with students as well as live with ever-present microaggressions. She teaches mindfulness to help […] Subtitle: An Asian American Reckoning Recommended to me by: Jesse-the-k Cathy Park Hong describes minor feelings as “the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic, built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one’s perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed.” In this frank memoir, […] Subtitle: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Recommended to me by: Reading Braiding Sweetgrass A lyrical series of essays that weave together fascinating details about mosses and stories about Robin Wall Kimmerer’s life. She is an extraordinary storyteller. Mosses are the most minimal plants. They survive by carefully funneling and holding onto water […] Subtitle: How to Recognize Your Privilege, Combat Your Racism, and Change the World In this book for people with white privilege who want to take the next step in anti-racism, Layla Saad guides the reader on a brilliantly organized 28 day exploration of internalized white supremacy and how to address it. The first week […] Subtitle: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Recommended to me by: Amy Bennett A set of essays loosely tied together in chronological order, with themes of sweetgrass and braiding all the way through. Each essay braids together personal memoir, Native American (specifically Potawatomi) ways of living, and colonialist ways of living. […] Subtitle: Exploring Gender & Sexuality in Magical Practice Recommended to me by: Sam L-G Misha Magdalene (they/them pronouns) asserts that magic is queer. In writing by turns academic and conversational, they explore viewing magic through the lenses of gender and sexuality. They describe their experience with growing up queer, as well as their gradual […] Subtitle: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy Recommended to me by: Reading Lindsay Gibson’s previous book This book repeats some material on emotionally immature parents from the previous book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, in a way that is more focused on how the adult child feels rather than […] Subtitle: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story Recommended to me by: Justine Larbalestier A writing manual about the tools of the writing trade: punctuation, grammar, voice, point of view. This compact book is carefully detailed, wryly kind, deeply knowledgeable. It arose out of writing workshops that Le Guin offered, and has […] Subtitle: A New Way to Bake with Non-Wheat Flours Recommended to me by: runpunkrun A detailed investigation of gluten-free flours, with a chapter for each with a description plus well-suited recipes. It includes rice, oat, corn, chestnut, nut, coconut, teff, buckwheat, and sorghum flours. There’s a resource section at the end with places to […] Subtitle: A Primer for Choirs and Choruses Recommended to me by: reading Conable’s previous book What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body A brief book (45 pages) with lively, pithy anatomical details about breathing for singing. Illustrations show breathing anatomy from lips to pelvic floor, including where are lungs are (from slightly […] |