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There is a hunger in the air right now. For language and context, for maps on how to get out of the wreckage. For strategies to resist and dismantle global fascism. These books didn’t just teach me things. They gave me frameworks and rewired how I understand power, harm, care, and collective possibility. They helped me build a praxis rooted in abolition, interdependence, and stubborn hope.From 🧊 raids and violence, to escalating transphobia, to genocide and endless war, to the extraction of late-stage capitalism: we are living inside overlapping systems designed to exhaust us, isolate us, and keep us passive. The rich grow richer, the powerful hoard more power. Capitalism and settler colonialism work in tandem to convince us that this is inevitable, that we are small and alone. But we are not. There are more of us than there are of them. We can build care networks stronger than policing, surveillance, and borders. These books dare us to imagine and offer us paths to make those dreams a reality.None of this promises utopia. We will mess up. We will hurt each other. We will have to stay in the mess. But we do not have to oppress each other. We can kill the cops in our heads. We can learn to listen better, repair more honestly, and fight more tenderly. We can choose solidarity over individualism. We can build abolitionist futures together. And we can get everyone free.I believe in us. I believe in the soft, stubborn work of staying. Of choosing each other. Of letting our politics be shaped not only by rage, but by care. These books remind me that liberation is not a distant dream but a daily practice built in kitchens and classrooms, in group chats and mutual aid spreadsheets, in protests and every small moment of refusal. Page by page, these books taught me how to imagine beyond survival, how to reach for something truer, something gentler, something freer. And in a world that keeps telling us to shrink, to harden, to look away, choosing to read, to learn, to organize, and to love anyway feels like one of the most radical acts we have.I hope you’ll read one of these. And I hope you’ll keep fighting for us. All power to the people, always.