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).

academia

• Chavez, Felicia Rose. The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop
• Harney, Stefano and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study

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, imperialism, and racism

• Fanon, Franz.
  • Black Skin, White Masks
  • The Wretched of the Earth
• Hartman, Saidiya. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Ninteenth Century America
• Said, Edward. Orientalism
• Shakur, Assata. Assata: An Autobiography
• Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha. "Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage"
• Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor"
• Wynter, Sylvia. "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Överrepresentation—An Argument"

gender and queer theory

• Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology
• 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"
• porpentine. "Hot Allostatic Load"
• 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"
• Storyweaver, Anonsee. "Position of Guilt: Black Hot Allostatic Load"
• Warner, Michael. The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life

history and culture

• Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

literary theory, analysis, and criticism

• Christian, Barbara.
• "Camouflaging Race and Gender"
• "Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something: African American Women's Historical Novels"
• "The Race for Theory"
• Kilgore, De Witt Douglas. "Difference Engine: Aliens, Robots, and Other Racial Matters in the History of Science Fiction"
• Le Guin, Ursula K.
• The Wave in the Mind
• "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction"
• Morrison, Toni. "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature"
• Tolkien, JRR. "On Fairy Stories"