Full Moon Forage no.1
First in a series of narrative resources I gathered for you and me to use towards possibility. This one is a 9-book reading mixtape assembled after encountering a ship of artists sailing for / around Earth.
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The Full Moon Forage is a curation of favoured finds from my time travels. In this series, encounter the narrative resources I've gathered for you and me to take in, move to, and use towards possibility as we wish. (Looking for deep dives and synthesis instead? Here are 5 of my favourites)
On the first full moon of the year I was with friends old and new, watching a performance by artists Nova and Filastine of the cultural sailing ship Arka Kinari. I foraged this reading playlist for anyone who also found their work inspiring, energising, and urgent.
A reading playlist after Arka Kinari, 2026
- Harsha Walia - Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021) | Nova, Filastine, and their crew struggled with borders imposed on sea on land. This book from 2021 explains many geographies of migration and is still so relevant today.
- Andreas Malm - The Destruction of Palestine Is The Destruction of the Earth (2024) | More like an essay than a book. Has one of the most interesting ship stories I have ever read, and ties it back to the climate emergency.
- Ajay Singh Chaudhary - The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World (2024) | A passionate book about how drained our planet and people are. Offers a mythology of The Exhausted along The Extractive Circuit in The Long Now that I find practical and useful
- Vijay Prashad - Struggle Makes Us Human (2022) | What was meant to be an interview became a whole book
- Dean Spade - Love In A F*cked-Up World (2025) | it's about LOVE let's GO what else is there
- Vincent Bevin - The Jakarta Method (2020) | What happened in Indonesia (and Brazil) in the 1960s? Why does it matter today?
- Ailton Krenak translated by Anthony Doyle - Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (2020) | 3 essays from an Indigenous leader in Brazil about earth and telling stories
- Ruha Benjamin - Imagination: A Manifesto (2024) | because our imaginations are under attack too! We need ART and PLAY
- Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place (1988) | cathartic rage from a 'tourist island'
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