Finding inspiration
There are people that have inspired me to see new things, and to take action in new ways. Here I have collected a number of books, articles, and websites that, in one way or another, have pointed me in the right direction.
Books
Active hope: How to face the mess we’re in with unexpected resilience and creative power by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad
A World of Many Worlds edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser
Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds by María Puig de la Bellacasa
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods by Kris Spisak
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton
In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker
Play and the Human Condition by Thomas S. Henricks
Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play by Susanna Paasonen
Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Politics of Affect by Brian Massumi
Transitions by William Bridges
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Daniel Maté and Gabor Maté
Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move by Arawana Hayashi
Other things to read and engage with
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dear white people by Bayo Akomolafe
Bringing in the Work of Nature: From Natural Capital to Hybrid Labor by Alyssa Battistoni
Co-creating with the more-than-human by Kincentric Leadership and The Repatterning Collective
Guide to Making a Personal Reparations Plan by Hilary Giovale