Read and think in community about issues that matter by joining the Hard Conversations Book Club, which meets online monthly to discuss a book that will challenge, educate, inspire, and/or motivate you.
The Hard Conversations Book Club has operated for 28 years. We read a book each month that will illuminate a path for accessing, reclaiming, and deepening our shared humanity. We will spend this year learning things we have not known, so we can respond to other human beings from a place of knowing, and not from a place of fear.
We will meet online in a private classroom, and on Zoom on the second Wednesday of each month we will have s live call to explore our responses to each book from 7:30-9pm Eastern. Those meetings will be recorded for those who cannot join us live. GO HERE TO REGISTER.
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Our 2025 Reading List
January –
- Rebecca Solnit, “Our Mistake Was to Think We Lived in a Better Country Than We Do,” The Guardian, 11/7/24.
- Article on ‘The Southern Strategy’ of Kevin Phillips, “This is How the Republican Party Got Southernized,” by Jamelle Bouie, 10/13/23
- ”What is Fascism?: Why Should it Matter to Organizers and Activists” (audio) https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UbMkByAGvUfhz0cmg4kWy?si=7d0715bde0614ba8
- ”Ten Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now that Trump has Won: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/
February – White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
March – Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century Edited by Alice Wong
April – Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
May –Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
June – The Stonewall Reader Edited by NY Public Library and Jason Baumann
July – Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World―and How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo
August – Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
September – Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec
October –
- Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke;
- Article: Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014
November – What’s Up with White Women?: Unpacking Sexism and White Privilege in Pursuit of Racial Justice by Isla Govan and Tilman Smith
December – Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown