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Afropessimism - Frank Wilderson III

🎥 Afropessimism and the Anxiety of Antagonism- Frank Wilderson III

🎥 An Ontology of Betrayal- Salamawit Terrefe, Joy James, and Frank Wilderson III

🎧 Volume XII: Afropessimism- PAGES Pod

🎧 Volume XXII: Afropessimism, Care, and [Fractured] Kinship - PAGES POD

🌎 Afro-pessimism: The Unclear World- Jared Sexton

Black and Blur- Fred Moten

Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon

🎥 Fred Moten on Palestine and the Nation-State of Israel - Fred Moten

In the Wake - Christina Sharpe

🎥 Irreconcilable Anti-Blackness- Frank Wilderson III

📄 Judging Fanon - David Marriott

📄 Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe - Hortense Spillers

On Being Human as Praxis- Sylvia Wynter

Ontological Terror - Calvin Warren

🎥 On Violence- Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

🌎 Phantasmagoria; or, The World is a Haunted Plantation- Salamawit Terrefe

Red, White, and Black - Frank Wilderson III

Scenes of Subjection - Saidiya Hartman

Slavery and Social Death - Orlando Patterson

📄 The case of blackness - Fred Moeten

🎥 The Crisis of Truth pt. I - David Marriott

🎥 The Crisis of Truth pt. II - David Marriott

📄 The Pornotrope of Decolonial Feminism - Salamawit Terrefe

📄 The position of the unthought- Saidiya Hartman & Frank Wilderson III

📄 The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-pessimism and Black Optimism- Jared Sexton

📄 Venus in Two Acts- Saidiya Hartman

📄 What Exceeds the Hold?- Christina Sharpe & Salamawit Terrefe

Wither Fanon - David Marriot

Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

📄 A Cautionary Tale On Limiting Epistemic Oppression- Kristie Dotson

🌎 Aint I a Woman - SoJourner Truth

Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism- bell hooks

Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South- Deborah Gray White

📄 Beyond Black and Blue: BDSM, Internet Pornography, and Black Female Sexuality- Ariane Cruz

Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins

Black Feminism Reimagined - Jennifer Nash

📄 Black on Black Love: Black Lesbian and Bisexual Women, Marriage, and Symbolic Meaning- Siobhan Brooks

Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying: Intersecting Distress- Leah Hollis

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia- Sabrina Strings

🎥 Mapping History, Engaging with Possibility: Black Feminism(s) Today- Joy James, Kris Sealey, & Nathifa Greene

📄 Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color- Kimberlè Crenshaw

The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to the Anti-Racist Struggle- Myisha Cherry

📄 The Combahee River Collective Statement- Combahee River Collective

🎥 The Danger of a Single Story- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

📄 The Pornotrope of Decolonial Feminism - Salamawit Terrefe

🎧 Volume X: The Case for Rage- PAGES Pod

🎧 Volume XV: Body Politics - PAGES Pod

📄 Word to the Wise: Notes on a Black Feminist Metaphilosophy of Race- Kristie Dotson

Baracoon - Zora Neale Hurston

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Between the World and Me- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Giovanni’s Room- James Baldwin

Going to Meet the Man- James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk- James Baldwin

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

Kindred - Olivia Butler

📄 My Dungeon Shook- James Baldwin

Queen Sugar- Natalie Baszile

The Beautiful Struggle- Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

🌎 The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Fire Next Time- James Balwdin

The Nickel Boys- Colson Whitehead

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Their Eyes Were Watchin God - Zora Neale Hurston

We Were Eight Years in Power- Ta-Nehisi Coates

White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief- Donald Goines

🎥 Dilemmas of the Black Male Identity- Tommy Curry

🎥 How Racism Drove the Development of 19th & 20th Century Feminist Theory- Tommy Curry

📄 Killing Boogeymen: Phallicism and the Misandric Mischaracterizations of Black Males in Theory- Tommy Curry

On Black Men - David Marriott

The Man-not - Tommy Curry

📄 She Touched Me: Five Snapshots of Adult Sexual Violations of Black Boys- Tommy Curry & Ebony Utley

Soul on Ice - Eldridge Cleaver

White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief- Donald Goines

🌎 You Can’t Stand the Nigger I See!: Kanye West’s Analysis of Anti-Black Death—Or a Black Man’s Refutation of the Bourgeois-ization of Black Cultural Criticism- Tommy Curry

Alienation and Freedom- Frantz Fanon

Articulate While Black - H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

Black Marxism- Cedric Robinson

Black Reconstruction in America - W.E.B. DuBois

Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon

Bound in Wedlock- Tera Hunter

Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination- Dariek Scott

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete- William Rhoden

Freedom is a Constant Struggle- Angela Davis

Futures of Black Radicalism- Gaye Johnson

📄 Is Islamaphobia Always Racism?- Lauwers

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route- Saidiya Hartman

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass - Fredrick Douglass

📄 Polyamory in Black - Justin Clardy

The Black Five: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era - Claude Johnson

🎥 The Black Outdoors- Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman

🌎 The Case for Reparations- Ta-Nehisi Coates

🌎 The Conservation of Races - W.E.B. DuBois

The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict- Austin Reed

📄 The Miseducation of the Negro- Carter G. Woodson

🌎 The Souls of Black Folk- W.E.B. DuBois

📄 The Vocation of the Black Scholar and the Struggles of the Black Community- Vincent Harding

🌎 Up From Slavery- Booker T. Washington

🎧 Volume XIII: Black Pleasure- PAGES Pod

🌎 What to the Negro is the 4th of July- Frederick Douglass

Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

Conscripts of Modernity- David Scott

Horizon, Sea, and Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation- Andrea Davis

📄 Is Islamaphobia Always Racism?- Anna Sophie Lauwers

🎥 Israel responds to accusations of genocide presented by South Africa at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 12, 2024]

🎥 On Violence- Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

🎥 Race and Enlightenment- Tommy Curry

Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class, and Social Domination- Charles Mills

🎥 South Africa presents arguments of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 11, 2024]

Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle- Brackette Williams

Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War- Vincent Brown

The Black Jacobins - C. L. R. James

🎥 The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory History of New World Slavery- David Scott

The Jamaican People 1880-1902: Race, Class, and Social Control- Patrick Bryan

A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography- Mireille Miller-Young

All Boys Arent Blue - George M. Johnson

📄 Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice- Rachel McKinnon

Between Desire and Pleasure- Frida Beckman

📄 Beyond Black and Blue: BDSM, Internet Pornography, and Black Female Sexuality- Cruz

Beyond Monogamy: The Future of Polyqueer Sexualities- Mimi Schippers

Black and Sexy: A Framework of Racialized Sexuality- Tracie Gilbert

📄 Black on Black Love: Black Lesbian and Bisexual Women, Marriage, and Symbolic Meaning- Siobhan Brooks

Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology- E. Patrick Johnson

Black Sexual Politics - Patricia Hill Collins

Exploring Black Sexuality- Robert Staples

Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination- Dariek Scot

Internalized Homonegativity Among Same Gender Loving Black Men: An Exploration of Truths- P. Ryan Grant

No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies- E. Patrick Johnson

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good- Adrienne Maree Brown

📄 Poly Economics: Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory- Christian Klesse

📄 Sexual Contract- Carole Pateman

The Black Body in Ecstacy - Jennifer Nash

The Color of Kink - Arianne Cruz

The Erotic Life of Racism - Sharon P. Holland

The History of Sexuality: An Introduction- Michel Foucault

📄 The Reimagining Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality in Indigenous Communities Colloquium: An Overview and Reflective Essay- Natasha Stirrett

The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality- Julie Decker

The Spectre of Promiscuity: Gay Male and Bisexual Non-monogamies and Polyamories- Christian Klesse

📄 Why Yellow Fever Isnt Flattering- Robin Zheng

Against Marriage- Clare Chambers

📄 Agreements, Rules and Agentic Fidelity in Polyamorous Relationships- Kassia Wosick-Correa

All About Love - bell hooks

Beyond Monogamy: The Future of Polyqueer Sexualities- Mimi Schippers

Black Love, Black Hate- Felice Blake

📄 Black on Black Love: Black Lesbian and Bisexual Women, Marriage, and Symbolic Meaning- Siobhan Brooks

Black women, Black love - Dianne Stewart

Bound in Wedlock- Tera Hunter

Communion: The Female Search for Love- bell hooks

📄 Critical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex & Nature- Kim TallBear

Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere- Nathan Rambukkana

📄 Friendship and Reasons of Intimacy

📄 How Complex is Your Love?- Aaron Ben Ze-ev and Luke Brunning

📄 How Does Stalking Wrong the Victim? - Elizabeth Brake

It’s Called Polyamory: Coming Out about Your Nonmonogamous Relationships- Tamara Pincus

📄 Love as Valuing a Relationship - Niko Kolodny

Love in the Dark: Philosophy by Another Name- Diane Enns

Minimizing Marriage - Elizabeth Brake

📄 Monogamy Unredeemed- Harry Chalmers

📄 Nonmarriage- Naomi R. Cahn and June Carbone

Perversions of Love and Hate- Renata Salecl

📄 Polyamory in Black - Justin Clardy

📄 Poly Economics: Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory- Christian Klesse

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Non-Monogamy- Jessica Fern

Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning- Carrie Jenkins

Singled Out: How Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored and Still Live Happily Ever After- Bella DePaulo

📄 The Breakup Check- Pilar Lopez-Cantero

📄 The Reimagining Kinship, Gender, and Sexuality in Indigenous Communities Colloquium: An Overview and Reflective Essay- Natasha Stirrett

Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America- Frances Smith Foster

Veil and Vow - Aneeka Henderson

🎧 Volume IX: Sad Love w/ Prof Carrie Jenkins- PAGES Pod

🎧 Why It’s Ok to Not Be Monogamous- PAGES Pod

What Love is and What it Could Be- Carrie Jenkins

Why It’s Ok to Not Be Monogamous- Justin Clardy

🌎 A critique of pure reason - Immanuel Kant

🌎 A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume

🌎 Apology- Plato

📄 An Ethics of Care- Eva Kittay

Being and Time- Martin Heidegger

🌎 Discourses- Epictetus

Discourses and Selected Writings- Epictetus

🌎 Euthyphro- Plato

📄 Imagining in Oppressive Contexts or What’s Wrong with Blackface?- Robin Zheng

📄 Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?- Edmund Gettier

Love’s Vision- Troy Jollimore

🌎 Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle

On Friendship- Alexander Nehamas

On Truth- Harry Frankfurt

On What Matters- Derek Parfit

📄 The Case for Contamination- Kwame Appiah

The Case for Rage: Why Anger is Essential to the Anti-Racist Struggle- Myisha Cherry

The Importance of What we Care About- Harry Frankfurt

The History of Sexuality: An Introduction- Michel Foucault

The Racial Contract- Charles Mills

🌎 The Republic - Plato

🌎 The Symposium - Plato

What Love is and What it Could Be- Carrie Jenkins

What We Owe To Each Other- T.M. Scanlo

🎧 Why It’s Ok to Not Be Monogamous- PAGES Pod

A Theory of Justice - John Rawls

After Marriage: Rethinking Marital Relationships- Elizabeth Brake

Against Marriage- Clare Chambers

Are Prisons Obsolete?- Angela Davis

Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks- Sarah Florini

Black Marxism- Cedric Robinson

Black Power - Kwame Ture

Black Sexual Politics- Patricia Hill Collins

🎥 Charles Mills on Liberalism- Charles Mills

Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere- Nathan Rambukkana

Freedom is a Constant Struggle- Angela Davis

🎥 Israel responds to claims of genocide presented by South Africa at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 12th, 2024]

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement - John Rawls

Minimizing Marriage- Elizabeth Brake

📄 Nonmarriage- Naomi R. Cahn and June Carbone

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality- Danielle Allen

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good- Adrienne Maree Brown

Political Emotions- Martha Nussbaum

Political Liberalism- John Rawls

Pollution is Colonialism- Max Liboiron

📄 Poly Economics: Capitalism, Class, and Polyamory- Christian Klesse

Rights, Race, and Recognition- Derrick Darby

🎥 South Africa presents arguments of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice [Jan. 11th, 2024]

🎥 Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Full Opening Statement on Reparations at House Hearing [Jun. 19th, 2019]- Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a New Human Future at the Frontier of Power- Shoshana Zuboff

🌎 The Case for Reparations- Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure- Celine Shimizu et. al

🌎 The First White President- Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander

📄 The Politics of Identity- Kwame Appiah

The Racial Contract- Charles Mills

The Rich and the Rest of Us- Cornel West and Tavis Smiley

The Sympathetic State- Michelle Landis Dauber

Twice the Work of Free Labor- Alex Lichtenstein

🌎 United States Bill of Rights - James Madison

🌎 United States Constitution

🌎 United States Declaration of Independence- Thomas Jefferson et. al.

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