Description
In 2025, The Hard Conversations Book Club will focus on works written by and about immigrants and refugees. Host Patti Digh has led this and similar book clubs focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, for the past 24 years.
We will meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, from 7:30-9pm ET / 4:30-6pm PT on Zoom to discuss these works and the issues they raise. The calls will be recorded and provided to everyone who is a member in 2025, in case you have to miss a call.
Cost
We are instituting an Equity Pricing model for the Book Club in 2022.
You are invited to give what you can to help support the Hard Conversations Book Club, whether that is $1 or $30 or more, or less. Only you know what you can afford to give, and the value that accrues to you by being part of this community, so we invite you to give what you can from the heart and in a way that will not harm your livelihood.
In the spirit of equity pricing, if you are socialized as white and benefit from the unearned social advantages that come with that assignation, we ask that you give generously within your means, to allow our BIPOC family to give less and to allow us to provide scholarships.
If giving proves to be a hardship for you, please enter $1 and then use the code “Guest2023” to sign up for free. All are welcome, regardless of your ability to pay.
Also, we invite all and to join us for free in 2025.
Please use code: Guest2025 [first, enter $1 as your price, click “Add To Cart,” and then enter the code at checkout]
2025 Book 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
