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Books I recommend you read
Teaching to Transgress Education as the Practice of Freedom By bell hooks
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity By Carlo M. Cipolla
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
There There: A Novel by Tommy Orange
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel by Marlon James
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies by Dick Gregory
Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning by Audrey Watters
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin
Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity by Saundra Dalton-Smith
The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
The City We Became: A Novel by N. K. Jemisin
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block
The Different Drum: Community-making and Peace by Morgan Scott Peck
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryū Suzuki
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisah Teish
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Nice! I especially appreciate the reading list. Just added "Invisible Women" to my reading list!