1Q: Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes (started it just before the holidays)
2Q: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
3Q: Marjorie Kelly's Wealth Supremacy
4Q: Danielle Allen's Justice by Means of Democracy.
In between I'll continue Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Year War on Palestine, Malcolm Harris' Palo Alto, and Toni Morrison's The Truth of Self-Regard.
I don't promise to resist other books not on the list because when has that ever worked? But I do hope to do as you're doing, Nathan, and read from my current shelves. Reorganizing and trimming said shelves will help.
Thank you for writing this, Nathan! I recognized so much of myself in that, even in your visceral response to my words. That tension existed even while writing, and I guess it’s easier to write hopeful than to be hopeful. Something I’ve begun articulating more recently (and wish I had at the time) was this notion: I don’t actually count on the church to be the force that ends homelessness; but I don’t think we can do it without them. In light of that, I can hold my rage at the churches and Christians who cause harm and my hope and joy when churches/Christians link arms, not necessarily as a tension but an expectation. We just need *enough* churches and Christians, not all of them.
Anyway, thanks again for this. I need to get up to Boston soon!
I think I just picked my quarterly 4:
1Q: Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes (started it just before the holidays)
2Q: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing
3Q: Marjorie Kelly's Wealth Supremacy
4Q: Danielle Allen's Justice by Means of Democracy.
In between I'll continue Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Year War on Palestine, Malcolm Harris' Palo Alto, and Toni Morrison's The Truth of Self-Regard.
I don't promise to resist other books not on the list because when has that ever worked? But I do hope to do as you're doing, Nathan, and read from my current shelves. Reorganizing and trimming said shelves will help.
Thank you for writing this, Nathan! I recognized so much of myself in that, even in your visceral response to my words. That tension existed even while writing, and I guess it’s easier to write hopeful than to be hopeful. Something I’ve begun articulating more recently (and wish I had at the time) was this notion: I don’t actually count on the church to be the force that ends homelessness; but I don’t think we can do it without them. In light of that, I can hold my rage at the churches and Christians who cause harm and my hope and joy when churches/Christians link arms, not necessarily as a tension but an expectation. We just need *enough* churches and Christians, not all of them.
Anyway, thanks again for this. I need to get up to Boston soon!