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We build community and strengthen solidarities through conversations about books, culture and politics. We organize book clubs, events, podcasts and immersive seminars.

Podcasts

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A Debut Novel Explores Anti-Blackness in Sudan: Featuring Reem Gaafar

When a little boy drowns in the Nile, a Sudanese village is forced to confront its racist past in Reem Gaafar’s debut novel A Mouth Full of Salt.

Jun 11 •

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Why Celebrity Algorithms are Destroying You

The hosts take a critical look at the algorithms ruling our lives on social media and beyond, with a warning to divest from celebrity content and…

Jun 2 •

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How to Be a Queer, Anti-Zionist, Pro-Palestinian Jew: Featuring Sim Kern

Sim Kern’s journey as an outspoken and empathetic activist for Palestinian liberation began when they realized, as a teenager, that global warming would…

May 28 •

Radical Books Collective

Radical Books Collective

Radical Books Collective

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Book Clubs

May 4, 2025: Reading Palestine 4 - Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

We continue to engage with the fight for Palestinian freedom by turning to the words of Palestinian writers themselves.

Apr 23 •

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March 29, 2025: We, The Kindling by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

We will read We, the Kindling, the debut novel by acclaimed poet Otoniya J.

Apr 23 •

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Dec 1, 2024: Reading Palestine 3 - Isabella Hammad's Recognizing The Stranger and ArabLit's And Still We Write

We continue to engage with the fight for Palestinian freedom by turning to the words of Palestinian writers themselves.

Apr 23 •

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Podcasts

BookRising

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek: Against Forgetting

Radical Futures

A Debut Novel Explores Anti-Blackness in Sudan: Featuring Reem Gaafar

It's Not You, It's The Media

Why Celebrity Algorithms are Destroying You

Newsletters

Parenting in a time of genocide

Stories of Greta Thunberg on Gaza freedom flotilla, Laila Souief’s deteriorating health and Noor Abdalla's reflections on motherhood reveal parenting as…

Jun 8 •

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Haphazard notes on mourning Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

Literary giant, intellectual, and dissident Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o passed away on May 28, 2025. He leaves us with a mountain of ideas filed away in hundreds…

May 31 •

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UCop: A Small Town Tale of Big Cop Ambitions

Actual policing and administrative policing are two sides of the same coin at UConn's rural campus as the intersecting violence toward pro-Palestine…

May 24 •

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