Gifting Forward from the Jams
Check out these humble gifts from the Jams including book lists and playlists.
Books
| Book titles | Author |
| Existential Kink: Unmask your shadow and embrace your power. Special quote shared during workshop with moe (flogging your fears bazaar apr12.21) “Consider the idea that all the best artists and most inspiring leaders are masters of torture. They torture us by getting us to feel deep emotions, by exposing taboos, by leading us through almost unbearable sensations of anticipation, surprise, and revelation.” | Carolyn Elliott |
| The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | Bessel Van Der Kolk |
| Staging the Personal: A Guide to Safe & Ethical Practice | Clark Baim |
| Peace making circles and Urban youth | Carolyn Boyes watson |
| The Tyranny of Merit | Michael Sandel |
| Decolonizing Wealth | Edgar Villanueva |
| My Grandmother’s Hands | Resmaa Menakem |
| These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home | Bayo Akomolafe |
| The Revolution will not be Funded: Beyond the nonprofit industrial complex | https://incite-national.org/beyond-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/ |
| My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the path to mending our hearts and bodies | Resmaa Manekem |
| This bridge called my back | Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others | Connie Burk and Laura van Dernoot Lipsky |
| Acupuncture Is Like Noodles: The Little Red (Cook)Book of Working Class Acupuncture | Lisa Rohleder (principal author) |
| A quote: “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny — it is the light that guides your way.” | |
| healing the trauma of abuse | [Copeland MS MA, Mary Ellen, Harris PhD, Maxine] |
| the peace of mind | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love | Valarie Kaur |
| Homegoing (a novel) | Yaa Gyasi |
| Healing Resistance | Kazu Haga (jamily!) |
| The Revolution will not be Funded: Beyond the nonprofit industrial complex | |
| My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the path to mending our hearts and bodies | Resmaa Manekem |
| This bridge called my back |
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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| Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others |
Connie Burk and Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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| Acupuncture Is Like Noodles: The Little Red (Cook)Book of Working Class Acupuncture |
Lisa Rohleder (principal author)
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A quote: “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny — it is the light that guides your way.”
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| healing the trauma of abuse |
[Copeland MS MA, Mary Ellen, Harris PhD, Maxine]
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| the peace of mind | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love | Valarie Kaur |
| Homegoing (a novel) | Yaa Gyasi |
| Healing Resistance | Kazu Haga (jamily!) |
| L’Amour Fait Loi (Essays by Queer North African writers) | Collection of authors |
| Loveability: Knowing How to Love and Be Loved | Robert Holden |
| The Untethered Soul | Michael Singer |
| Octavia’s Brood | collection of short stories |
| Love and Rage | Lama Rod Owen |
| blood, marriage, wine, and glitter | S. Bear Bergman |
| all about love | bell hooks |
| The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible | Charles Eisenstein |
| We have always been here – a queer muslim memoir | Samra Habib |
| disability visability | edited by alice wong |
| Trump and the Post-Truth Era | Ken Wilber |
| Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own | Eddie S. Glaude |
| AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin? |
Bob Stilger – Download complimentary eBook copy at www.AfterNow.Today using discount code SURVIVOR
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| Emergent Strategy | adrienne maree brown |
| How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Jenny O’Dell |
| My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies | Resmaa Menakem |
Podcasts
| Podcast Name | Podcast Link |
| queer brown mamas – launches june 2021 | (on instagram – @queerbrownmamas) |
| Brown Rice Hour | https://art19.com/shows/brown-rice-hour-with-konda-mason |
| Prentice Hemphill: Finding The Way | https://prentishemphill.com/new-page-4 |
| The Living Myth – Michael Meade | https://www.livingmyth.org/ |
| Where Shall We Begin? – Esther Perel | https://whereshouldwebegin.estherperel.com/ |
| Unlocking us with Brene Brown | https://brenebrown.com/podcast/introducing-unlocking-us/ |
| https://groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/ableism |
Websites and Resources
| Website Name | Website Link |
| Native Land- whose land do I occupy? | https://native-land.ca/ |
| Mapping our social change roles- Deepa Iyer | https://medium.com/@dviyer/mapping-our-social-change-roles-in-times-of-crisis-8bbe71a8ab01 |
| So you feel like shit | https://youfeellikeshit.com/ |
| Working Class Acupuncture | https://workingclassacupuncture.org/ |
| Principles of Disability Justice | https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice |
| Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work |
| Mia Mingus, Transformative Justice Pods | https://batjc.wordpress.com/pods-and-pod-mapping-worksheet/ |
| Decolonize Workbook | https://www.nahaneecreative.com/products/decolonize-first-a-liberating-guide-and-workbook-for-peeling-back-the-layers-of-neocolonialism |
| People’s Hub | https://peopleshub.org |
| Project LETS | |
| Icarus Project | |
| lots of diferent kinds of QTBIPOC and/or disabled and/or femme and/or trauma-related month-long (by donattion/ low cost) support groups. | |
| care clinics for those with disabilities and who are chronically sick (free-sliding scale) |