academic texts

• Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe
• The Souls of Black Folks by WEB Du Bois
• The Rites of Men: The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport by Varda Burstyn
• The Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant
• The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy
• Dark Matters by Simone Browne
• Mohawk Interruptus by Audra Simspn
• Demonic Grounds by Katherine McKittrick
• Race, Sport, and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora by Ben Carrington
• Conflicted Commitments: Race, Privilege, and Power in Solidarity Activism by Gada Mahrouse
• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex Ed. Nat Smith and Eric A Stanley
• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
• Butch Queens Up In Pumps by Marlon Bailey
• ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba by Jafari Allen
• The NFL: Critical and Cultural Perspectives Ed. Thomas F Oates and Zach Furness
• A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand

pleasure reading

• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell★★★★★
• The Bone Cage by Angie Abdou ★★★☆☆
• The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey ★★★☆☆
• All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven ★★★★★
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling (reread) ★★★★★
• The One & Only by Emily Giffen ★☆☆☆☆
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (reread) ★★★★★
• Dumplin' by Julie Murphy ★★★★★
• The Pirates in Adventure with Communists by Gideon Defoe ★★★★☆
• I See Reality (anthology) ★★★★★
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (reread) ★★★★★
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (reread) ★★★★★
• Burned by Ellen Hopkins ★★★★☆
• Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson ★★★★☆
• Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz ★★★★☆
• Ask the Passengers by AS King ★★★★★
• Impulse by Ellen Hopkins ★★★★☆
• We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson ★★★☆☆
• The Last Star by Rick Yancey ★★★☆☆
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli ★★★★★
• The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin ★★★☆☆
• 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs ★★★★☆
• Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs ★★★☆☆
• Holding Up The Universe by Jennifer Niven ★★★★☆
• This Is Where the World Ends by Amy Zhang ★★★☆☆
• One Night Only by Ken Reid ★★☆☆☆
• The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner ★★★★★
• Without Annette by Jane B Mason ★★☆☆☆
• Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Football and the Politics of Rape by Jessica Luther ★★★★★