Read. Reading matters. Read slowly.
Read to feel. Feel to read.
It all begins with reading your own breath.
How are you reading your own body?

Learn to read beyond the printed word.
Read to connect with the portals that open to other ways of knowing.
The act of reading — beyond what you can touch or see — transforms worlds creatively, making new possibilities visible.

At SEEDS for Change, reading is not passive consumption.
It is a political, relational, and healing act.
We invite you to engage with the writings that nurture memory, dignity, and collective transformation across borders.

Texts That Inspire My Work

  • Letter from a Birmingham Jail
    by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
    Available here

  • THE COMBAHEE RIVER COLLECTIVE STATEMENT (1977)
    Available here

  • Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
    by Gloria Anzaldúa (Aunt Lute Books, 1987)
    Available here

  • The Wretched of the Earth
    by Frantz Fanon (Grove Press, 1963)
    Available here

  • Brother, I'm Dying
    by Edwidge Danticat (Penguin Random House, 2007)
    Available here

  • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
    by bell hooks (Routledge, 1994)
    Available here

  • Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
    by Silvia Federici (Autonomedia, 2004)
    Available here

  • The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
    by Staceyann Chin (Scribner, 2009)
    Available here

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
    by Angela Y. Davis (Haymarket Books, 2016)
    Available here

  • All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism
    by Linda McQuaig (Penguin/Viking, 2001)
    Available here

  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
    by Audre Lorde (Crossing Press, 1984)
    Available here

  • Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
    by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Zed Books, 1999)
    Available here

  • Heads of the Colored People
    by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (S&S/37, 2018)
    Available here

  • The world we used to live in: Remembering the powers of the medicine men
    by Deloria Vine (Fulcrum Publishing, 2006)
    Available here

  • The Fire Next Time
    by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1963)
    Available here

  • Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
    by bell hooks (Routledge, 2014)
    Available here

  • The Learning Tree
    by Gordon Parks (Harper and Row, 1963)
    Available here

  • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
    Edited by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner, 2017)
    Available here

  • Bury My Clothes
    by Roger Bonair-Agard (Haymarket Books, 2013)
    Available here

  • Crucé la frontera en tacones: Crónicas de una TRANSgresora
    by Alexandra R. DeRuiz (EGALES S.L, 2023)
    Available here

  • Undoing Border Imperialism
    by Harsha Walia (AK Press, 2014)
    Available here

  • liberation
    by c.k. samuels (‎Information Age Publishing, 2023)
    Available here

  • Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re)Invigorate Your Teaching
    by Meenoo Rami (Heinemann, 2014)
    Available here

  • Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy
    Edited by Olivia N. Perlow, Durene I. Wheeler, Sharon L. Bethea, BarBara M. Scott (Springer Nature Link, 2018)
    Available here

  • El rescate del Náhuat
    UCA (2014)
    Available here

  • The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown and Company, 1951)
    Available here

  • How Do You Cite Email Communications from Individuals?
    by American Psychological Association
    Available here

  • La Colmena
    by Camilo José Cela (Emecé Ediciones, S.A., 1950)
    Available here

  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed
    by Paulo Freire (Continuum, 1970)
    Available here

  • Marcellus Williams: Missouri Executes ‘Innocent’ Man Despite Push to Free Him, Advocates Say
    by Kathryn Mannie (Global News, 2024)
    Available here

  • Mercury Contamination of Fish in Northwestern Ontario
    by Norvald Fimreite and Lincoln M. Reynolds (The Journal of Wildlife Management, 1973)
    Available here

  • Radical Safeguarding Toolkit for Homelessness
    by G. Taylor (Research and Practice, 2024)
    Available at Research and Practice

  • The Psychology of Oppression and Liberation
    by Hamza Hamouchene (Africa Is a Country, 2024)
    Available here

  • evidence: from wellsprings of felt knowledge
    by ck samuels (Self-publication, 2025)
    Available here

  • My Parent’s Marriage
    by Hana Ekua Brew-Hammond (Amistad, 2024)
    Available here

  • The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks
    by Caroline Shenaz Hossein (University of Toronto Press, 2024)
    Available here

  • The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
    by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner, 2017)
    Available here

  • Discourse on Colonialism
    by Aimé Césaire (Monthly Review Press, 1950)
    Available here

  • Sacrificing body and mind: Pretenure women faculty of color, their health, and well-being
    by M.A. Martinez, K.T. Glober, M. Ota, T.A. Long & Viroga Urega (Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024)
    Available here

  • Laughing at Genocide: On Anti-Palestinian Racism in Higher Education
    by Girish Daswani (Everyday Orientalism, 2024)
    Available here

  • Chihera Shava Mhofu: Libation Offering to Ancestors
    by Faith Mkwesha (‎Information Age Publishing, 2023)
    Available here

  • The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work
    by Tony Wagner (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
    Available here

  • We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
    by Bettina Love (Beacon Press, 2019)
    Available here

  • Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
    by Charlene A. Carruthers (Beacon Press, 2018)
    Available here

  • We Are Water Protectors
    by Carole Lindstrom (Roaring Brook Press, 2020)
    Available here

  • The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings
    by James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw (James Vukelich, 2023)
    Available here

  • Faculty Incivility: The Rise of the Academic Bully Culture and What to Do About It
    by Darla J. Twale (Darla Jean) (Jossey-Bass, 2008)
    Available here

  • Confronting Nontraditional Bullies in Academe
    by Becky K. Becker (Inside Higher Ed, 2023)
    Available here

  • Root  jfdkfjdljfladj jfdkfjdljflad: Shadow-Work as Pedagogical Training
    by Zahra Komeylian (‎Information Age Publishing, 2023)
    Available here

  • Academia is too much for my neurodivergent brain
    by Heidi Green (Times Higher Education, 2023)
    Available here

  • Institutional Betrayal: Inequity, Discrimination, Bullying, and Retaliation in Academia
    by K.D. Pyke (Sociological Perspectives, 2018)
    Available here

  • Shauna Landsberg
    by Shauna Landsberg (‎Information Age Publishing, 2023)
    Available here

  • If I Must Die
    by Refaat Alareer (2024)
    Available here

  • Those bones are not my child
    by Toni Cade Bambara (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000)
    Available here

  • Uprooting the Colonial Seed
    by Karthik Vigneswaran (‎Information Age Publishing, 2023)
    Available here

  • The Dead End of “Anti-Racist Discrimination”
    by Dustin Guastella and Jennifer C. Pan (Jacobin, 2024)
    Available here

  • a conversation with my six-year-old about revolution
    by Cynthia Dewi Oka (PM Press, 2016)
    Available here

  • The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
    by Audre Lorde (APA, 2018)
    Available here

  • My Son Runs in Riots for Oscar Grant & other warriors 7/8/10
    by NaMee Eirksen (PM Press, 2016)
    Available here

  • Discipline & punish: The birth of the prison.
    by M. Foucault (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995)
    Available here

  • 13 Moons 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    by Daniele Denichaud (‎Information Age Publishing, 2023)
    Available here

  • The Free Speech Exception to Palestine
    by S. Salaita (Middle East Critique, 2024)
    Available here

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