resources

I like to read theory and philosophy whenever I can, and I ended up amassing a lot of digital copies of various works of theory in grad school. Also other various pieces of nonfiction! Here, I'll be sharing PDFs of some particularly useful essays, excerpts, and other texts, organized roughly by topic (though of course there's plenty of overlap).

abolition and activism

• Davis, Angela Y. Are Prisons Obsolete?

capitalism

• Derrida, Jacques. Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International

colonialism and racism

• Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth
• Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Ninteenth Century America
• Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography
• Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha. "Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage"
• Wynter, Sylvia. "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Överrepresentation—An Argument"

literature and writing

• Le Guin, Ursula K. The Wave in the Mind
• Morrison, Toni. "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature"

feminism, gender, and queer theory

• Feinberg, Leslie. Stone Butch Blues
• Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
• King, Deborah K. "Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology"
• Lorde, Audre. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"
• Sedgwick, Eve. "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay is About You"
• Spillers, Hortense. "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book"