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A simplified black and white drawn diagram of a human heart with shaded chambers is labeled with arrows corresponding to the movement of blood. The Aorta is labeled in bold black text all of which is on a white background.

Anti-Oppression Facilitation for Democratic Process

 by AORTA

access anarchy cooperative

2017
“Accessibility In the Arts: A promise and a Practice, Carolyn Lazard” is typed in white on a black background. Two white computer icons for adobe reader and for volume are on either side of the black background.

Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice

 by Carolyn Lazard, published by Recess Art [before the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic]

access cooperative disability justice

2019
The phrases “Intersectionality, leadership, of those most impacted, anticapitalism, cross-movement organizing, wholeness, sustainability, cross-disability solidarity, interdependence, collective access, & collective liberation” are typed in a black variety of changing fonts over a close up abstracted painting of red blood vessels surrounded by a light peach color.

10 Principles of Disability Justice

 by Sins Invalid

access diasporic disability justice

2015
A thick black silhouette of a ladder with inconsistently tight rungs sits above a partition line and small black text that reads “How to build language justice, Antena.”

How to Build Langauge Justice

English

Spanish

by Antena Aire

access diasporic coopartive

2013
Simple cells etched and outlined in white collect and drift apart on a black background.

198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

 by Gene Sharp

cooperative movement theory

2019
A human with white hair stands with their head bowed wearing a purple jumpsuit and facing away from the purple planet behind them. The sky shifts from pink to yellow behind the title “the dispossessed” by Ursula K LeGuin.

The Dispossessed: An Astonishing Tale of One Man’s Search for Utopia

 by Ursula K. Le Guin

anarchy stories

1974
a drawing of a hand lifts towards a thorned curved flower stem all etched and outlined in white on a black background. The flower is made up of parallel wiggling lines.

Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making

 by Sam Kaner with Lenny Lind, Catherine Toldi, Sarah Fisk, and Duane Berger

anarchy cooperative governance

2007
a drawing that is etched and outlined in white of two walnut pods tilted in opposite directions to lean against one another is centered on a black background.

Everything Worthwhile is Done with other People, interview with Mariame Kaba

 by Eve L. Ewing

abolition cooperative governance

2019
A drawing of a cloth pulled diagonally upward is etched and outlined in white on a black background.

Fascism & Anti-Fascism: A Decolonial Perspective

 by Ena͞emaehkiw Wākecānāpaew Kesīqnaeh

cooperative decolonization

2017
Black unsteady thin abstract lines meet perpendicularly in the center of the page with a right triangle, diagonal, and small circle floating out of the top left quadrant. The name and title “Simone Forti Handbook in motion” runs across the top of the white page.

Handbook in Motion

 by Simone Forti

cooperative movement poetry

1974
A white drawing of three open seed pods with deeply curved stems organized to be exactly parallel and equidistant is outlined and etched onto a black background.

Beyond Civil Disobedience

 by Snap Dragon

anarchy cooperative rage

1998
A redish zine sits on a grey table top. The title reads: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde.

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

 by Audre Lorde

black feminism queer

1984
A braid of thin light green grass crosses the center of a light tan background between the words “Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer” in varying shades of green.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

 by Robin Wall Kimmerer

decolonization degrowth stories

2013
A white etched drawing of a looping rope disintegrates into bark against a black background.

The Question of Judeo-Arabic

 by Ella Shohat
published in The Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 23, No. 1

decolonization diasporic theory

1998
A black woman with heavy framed glasses and a medium length afro looks over her shoulder from a paper manuscript lifted in her right hand. This black and white image is overlaid with a yellow gradient lighting the top edge. The names and title “Sylvia Wynter, on being human as praxis, Katherine Mckittrick, editor” sits at the bottom and below this black and white photo’s edge in white and yellow text. The bottom band of the image is a dense black.

Sylvia Winter: On Being Human as Praxis

 edited by Katherine McKittrick

black feminism cooperative stories

2015
An interrupted static radar reading is drawn etched in white across a black background.

Selfcare as Warfare

 by Sarah Ahmed
published by feministkilljoys

cooperative care rage

2014
the book cover of Now by the Invisible Committee has a white background with brown silloutes of people standing in the foreground.

Now

 by the Invisible Committee

anarchy cooperative rage

2017
the book cover of 'state of siege' by mahmoud darwish. a brown and tan image shows a window open only to a brick wall behind it, with a window shutter falling diagonally across the frame. paint chips off the wall behind it, creating a tense and unsettling feeling.

State of Siege

 by Mahmoud Darwish

poetry grief exile

2002
the book cover for 'the faggots and their friends between revolutions' has a dark red background with a black line drawing above. the title of the book is written in gothic letters centered on the page, and an illustration of two alien-esc figures surround the letters, almost as if forming a frame.

The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions

 Text by Larry Mitchell and drawings by Ned Asta, republished by Nightboat Books

queer stories governance

1977
the book cover of 'publics and counterpublics' by michael warner. on the cover, four white women are taking photos while sitting down and laying in a group. they smile and look deeply focused on what is happening ahead of them.

Publics and Counterpublics

 by Michael Warner

queer theory coooperative

1958
the book cover for 'precarious life' by judith butler. the book is black with blueish, greyish, and greenish abstract shapes which rise from the bottom. the title of the book is written in white letters on the top. a siloutte of a ghostly figure is on the bottom left in a white transparent shape.

Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence

 by Judith Butler

queer theory grief

2004
a scan of the inner front page of the book, 'the force of non violence' by judith butler. the scan shows a white text with black scanned edges. the title is written in all capital letters in the upper middle of the page and a bolded 'V', the Verso books logo, is on the center bottom.

The Force of Non-Violence: An Ethico-Politico Bind

 by Judith Butler

queer theory grief

2020
a scanned cover of 'remaking society' by murray bookchin shows a black and white image of a cracked, dry ground. the title of the book is written in big, serif letters in white on a black square.

Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future

 by Murray Bookchin

theory grief

1990
a graphic of a blueish cube on a light yellow background.

Finding Spaces for Change: A Power Analysis

 by John Gaventa

theory movement cooperative

2006
the book cover for 'out of place' by edward said. a child photo of edward looks ahead in a worried stare. it is a greyscale image on an organe background. the child wears a tie and button up shirt.

Out of Place

 by Edward Said

exile movement stories

1999
an illustration of a white masculine figure looks to the right on a red background. train tracks emerge toward the viewer and out of his ear. the train is approaching.

Eichmann in Jerusalem

 by Hannah Arendt

diasporic theory grief

1963
the book cover for 'on the arab-jew, palestine, and other displacements' by ella shohat shows an illustration of a kitchen that is absorbed within an abstract, fluid form. the image and title are place on a white background.

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Introduction

 by Ella Shohat

decolonization theory grief ungovernable

2017
the book cover for 'on zionist literature' by ghassan kanafani.

On Zionist Literature

 by Ghassan Kanafani

decolonization theory

1967
capitalized black letters on a white background read, "Homo Sacer" and above them in a serif font is ays, "Giorgio Agamben".

Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

 by Giorgio Agamben

decolonization theory governance exile

1995
in bold black letters on a yellow background it says, "how europe underdeveloped africa." on the bottom right, the author's title appears, "Walter Rodney".

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

 by Walter Rodney

decolonization theory abolition

1972