SHELF | Working Liyterature

Context is what appears when you hold your attention open for long enough; the longer you hold it, the more context appears. — Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy (2019)

What does it mean that something is named here?

It means that I have access to it and it informs the reading and thinking notes that I file into my system. It does not mean that I inherently admire the author and recommend every text. What's listed is certainly interesting enough for me to pay attention to as I make sense of the world! At minimum, I am thankful for the labour behind each one and that it reached me.

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Last updated: April 2025

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali translated by Muhammad Abul Quasem, 1983. The Jewels of the Qur'an: A-Ghazali's Theory: A translation, with an introduction and annotation of al-Ghazali's Kitab Jawahir al-Qur'an

Achille Mbembe, 2016. Necropolitics

Ailton Krenak, 2020. Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. Translated by Anthony Doyle

Ajay Singh Chaudhary, 2024. The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World

Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 2021. You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Writings 2011-2021

Allan M. Brandt, 2007. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America

Amar Alfikar and Muhammad Dluha Luthfillah (editors), 2022. Islam & Tubuh-Tubuh Queer. YIFoS Indonesia.

Amar Alfikar, 2023. Queer Menafsir: Teologi Islam Untuk Ragam Ketubuhan

amb, 2017. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Amber Murrey (editor), 2018. A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Policies and Legacies of Thomas Sankara

amina wadud, 1992. Qur'an and Women: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective

amina wadud, 2006. Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam

amina wadud, 2022. Once In A Lifetime

Amira El-Zein, 2017. Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn. Syracuse University Press

Amitav Ghosh, 2016. The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable

Andrea J. Ritchie, 2023. Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

Andrew Boyd, 2023. I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

Andrew Ross, 2019. Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel. Verso Books.

Angela Chen, 2020. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Angela Y. Davis, 2015. Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, Michael Marx (editors), 2009. The Qur'ān in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur'ānic Milieu

Angelika Neuwirth translated by Samuel Wilder, 2022. The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy

Anna Kornbluh, 2023. Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism

Annie Kotowicz, 2022. What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

Andreas Malm, 2020. Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Andreas Malm, 2023. Fighting In A World On Fire: The next generation’s guide to protecting the climate and saving our future

Andreas Malm, 2024. The Destruction of Palestine Is The Destruction of the Earth. Verso Books.

Anissa Hélie and Homa Hoodfar (editors), 2012. Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance

Anne Applebaum, 2024. Autocracy Inc.: The Dictators Who Want To Run The World

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943. The Little Prince

Antony Loewenstein, 2023. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology of Occupation Around The World

Arif Nuh Safri, 2020. Memahami Keragaman Gender & Seksualitas: Sebuah Tafsir Kontekstual Islam

Arun Kundnani, 2023. What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism

Arturo Escobar, 2018. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making Of Worlds

Ashley Shew, 2023. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Asma Barlas, 2019. Believing Women In Islam: Unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Quran

Audre Lorde, 1978. Uses Of The Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Azar Nafisi, 2022. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, 2022. Health Communism

Becky Chambers, 2021. A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Becky Chambers, 2019. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Benedict Anderson, 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Benjamin Y. Fong, 2023. Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge

Beth Allison Barr, 2021. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the subjugation of women became gospel truth

Bhaskar Sunkara, Rene Rojas, Jonah Walter (editors), 2024. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger. Verso Books.

Bruno Manser, 1996. Voices From The Rainforest: Testimonies of a Threatened People

C. Thi Nguyen, 2020. Games: Agency As Art

C. Thi Nguyen, 2021. Trust and Sincerity in Art

C.A. Bayly and Tim Harper, 2004. Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

C.A. Bayly and Tim Harper, 2007. Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire

Camille Helminski, 2003. Women of Sufism, A Hidden Treasure: Writings and Stories of Mystic Poets, Scholars & Saints

Carl Zimmer, 2018. She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Carlo Rovelli, 2017. The Order of Time

Caroline Criado Pérez, 2019. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Christopher Choong Weng Wai, 2024. Anti-colonial raced capitalism in Malaysia: Contested logics, gendered repertoires

Cindy Barukh Milstein (editor), 2024. Constellations of Care: Anarcha-feminism in Practice

Cindy Milstein (editor), 2020. Deciding For Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy

Clara E. Mattei, 2022. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity And Paved The Way To Fascism

Daniel J. Boorstin, 1961. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, 2022. On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert, 2010. The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

David Graeber, 2009. Direct Action: An Ethnography

David Graeber, 2018. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Simon & Schuster.

Dean Spade, 2020. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Dean Spade, 2025. Love In A F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

Deborah Blum, 2010. The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Devon Price, 2022. Unmasking Autism: Discovering The New Faces of Neurodiversity

Diane di Prima, 2020. Revolutionary Letters

Donella H. Meadows, 2008. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Dorian Lynskey, 2024. Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End Of The World

Ed Yong, 2022. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal The Hidden Realms Around Us

Edith Sheffer, 2018. Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Eduardo Galeano, 1971. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Edwin Black, 2001. IBM and the Holocaust: The strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America's most powerful corporation

Ehima Ora, 2024. Spirits Come From Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices

Elisabeth Tova Bailey, 2010. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Emran El-Badawi and Paula Sanders (editors), 2019. Communities of the Qur'an: Dialogue, Debate, and Diversity in the 21st century

Eric Laursen, 2021. The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State

Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Sarah Sills (editors), 2021. A Land With A People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

Eyal Weizman, 2007. Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation

Farish A. Noor, Yoginder Sikan, Martin van Bruinessen (editors), 2008. The Madrasa in Asia: Political Activism and Transnational Linkages

Farish A. Noor, 2012. Islam on the Move: The Tablighi Jama'at in Southeast Asia

Farish A. Noor, 2014. The Malaysian Islamic Party PAS 1951-2013: Islamism in a Mottled Nation

Farish A. Noor, 2018. America's Encounters with Southeast Asia, 1800-1900: Before the Pivot

Fazlur Rahman, 1980. Major Themes of the Quran

Fern Brady, 2023. Strong Female Character

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, 2023. In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South

Frantz Fanon, 1959. A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon, 1961. The Wretched of the Earth

Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté, 2022. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, 2024. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism. Crown.

George Quinn, 2019. Bandit Saints of Java: How Java's eccentric saints are challenging fundamentalist Islam in modern Indonesia

Goneng Awang, 2007. Growing Up in Trengganu

Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke De Noronha, 2022. Against Borders: The Case For Abolition

Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser, David Shneer, 2009. Torah Queeries: Weekly commentaries on the Hebrew Bible

Gretchen McCulloch, 2019. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Hanna Alkaf, 2016. GILA: A Journey Through Moods and Madness

Hannah Proctor, 2024. Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Harsha Walia, 2021. Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Hazrat Inayat Khan, 1911. The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Hazrat Inayat Khan, 1977. The Music of Life

Hazrat Inayat Khan, 1979. The Art of Being and Becoming

Hazrat Inayat Khan, 1988. Spiritual Dimensions of Psychology

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek, 2023. After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

Hisham D. Aidi, 2014. Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture

Howard Zinn, 2006. A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

Ibn Khaldun, 1377. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Translated by Franz Rosenthal, 1967.

Ibram X. Kendi, 2022. How to Raise an Antiracist

Ingrid Robeyns, 2024. Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

Isabella Hammad, 2024. Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative

Jack G. Shaheen, 2001. Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, 1270. The Masnavi. Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi (Books 1-4).

James D'Amato, 2019. The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide

James P. Ongkili, 1967. The Borneo Response to Malaysia, 1961-1963

James S. Scott, 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Jane Alison, 2019. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Patterns in Narrative

Jasbir K. Puar, 2017. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

Jason F. Stanley, 2018. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

JB Phillips, 1952. Your God Is Too Small

Jean Duruz and Gaik Cheng Khoo, 2015. Eating Together: Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore

Jenny Odell, 2019. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jessa Crispin, 2016. The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide To An Inspired Life

Jessica Abel, 2015. Out on the Wire: Uncovering the Secrets of Radio's New Masters of Story with Ira Glass

Jessica Dore, 2021. Tarot for Change: Using the Cards for Self-Care, Acceptance, and Growth

Jessica Fern, 2022. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern, 2023. Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships

Jess Hill, 2019. See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse

Jesselyn Cook, 2024. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Jinan Yousef, 2020. Reflecting on the Names of Allah: Understanding and connecting to God in our daily lives

John Berger, 1972. Ways of Seeing

John Robb, 2006. Punk Rock: An Oral History

John Wackman & Elizabeth Knight, 2020. Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture

Jonathan A.C. Brown, 2014. Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet's Legacy

Jonathan Crary, 2014. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep

Jörg Matthias Determann, 2020. Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World. I. B. Tauris & Company

Jules Gill-Peterson, 2024. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

Karen Bakker, 2022. The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants

Karima Bennoune, 2013. Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism

Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé (editors), 2024. Palestine in a World on Fire

Kayanesenh Paul Williams, 2018. Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace

Kecia Ali, 2006. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence

Kecia Ali, 2014. The Lives of Muhammad

Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba, 2023. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing And The Revolution Of Reciprocal Care

Khaled Abou El Fadl, 2014. Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shari'ah in the Modern Age

Klaus Theweleit, 1980. Männerphantasien, Bd. 1: Frauen, Fluten, Korper, Geschichte. Translated by Chris Turner with foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, Male Fantasies, Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Bodies (1987)

Klaus Theweleit, 1983. Männerphantasien, Bd. 2: Männerkörper. Zur Psychoanalyse des weißen Terrors. Translated by Chris Turner and Erica Carter with foreword by Anson Rabinbach, Male Fantasies, Vol. 2: Male Bodies, Psychoanalyzing The White Terror (1989)

Kristin Ross, 2024. The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life

Lao Tzu, 401 and Ursula K. Le Guin, 1997. Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way, A New English Version by Ursula K. Le Guin

Lars Chittka, 2022. The Mind of a Bee

Laura Bates, 2020. Men Who Hate Women: From Incels To Pickup Artists, The Truth About Extreme Misogyny And How It Affects Us All

Laurie Marhoefer, 2022. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

Layla K. Feghali, 2024. The Land In Our Bones: Plantcestral herbalism and healing cultures from Syria to the Sinai

Leela Gandhi, 2005. Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-De-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1999. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Emma Lee, Jennifer Evans (editors), 2022. Indigenous Women's Voices: 20 Years On From Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies

Lindsay C. Gibson, 2015. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

Lizzie O'Shea, 2019. Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

Lola Olufemi, 2021. Experiments In Imagining Otherwise

Lola Olufemi, 2020. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, 1965. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Manuel Betancourt, 2023. The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men

Marco D'Eramo, 2021. The World in a Selfie: An Inquiry into the Tourist Age

Marimba Ani, 1994. Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior

Martin Lings, 1983. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Marwan Kaabour (editor), 2024. The Queer Arab Glossary. Saqi Books.

Matt Easton, 2022. We Have Tired of Violence: A True Story of Murder, Memory, and the Fight for Justice in Indonesia. The New Press.

Matthew Salesses, 2021. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping

Matthew T. Huber, 2022. Climate Change As Class War: Building Socialism On A Warming Planet

Mawlana Abul Kalam Azad, 1930. The Opening Chapter of The Qur'an. Translated 1962.

Maya Wind, 2024. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli universities deny Palestinian freedom. Verso Books

Melanie Mitchell, 2009. Complexity: A Guided Tour

Merlin Sheldrake, 2020. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Michael Largo, 2008. Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through The Ages

Michael Muhammad Knight, 2019. Muhammad: Forty Introductions

Mohamed Abdou, 2022. Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances. Pluto Press.

Muhammad Iqbal, 1934. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (Tajdeed-e-Fikriyat-e-Islam)

Musimgrafik, 2007. Where Monsoons Meet: A People's History of Malaya

Nada Elia, 2023. Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

Nadia Eghbal, 2020. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Nancy Fraser, 2022. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

Nathan Rochelle DuFord, 2022. Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory

Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills, David Miller (editors), 2017. What is Islamophobia? Racism, social movements, and the state

Navid Kermani, 2014. God is Beautiful: The aesthetic experience of the Qur'an

Neil Douglas-Klotz, 1990. Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus

Neil Douglas-Klotz, 2005. The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish

Neil Douglas-Klotz, 2022. Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus: The hidden teachings on life and death

Nell Irvin Painter, 2010. The History of White People

Nezar AlSayyad, Mejgan Massoumi (editors), 2011. The Fundamentalist City? Religiosity and the remaking of urban space

Nick Bryant, 2024. The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself

Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias, 2019. The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

Nick Estes, 2019. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Nicolai Sinai, 2023. Key Terms of the Qur'an: A Critical Dictionary

Nijay K. Gupta, 2024. Strange Religion: How The First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, 2022. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)

Omar El Akkad, 2025. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omid Safi, 2003. Progressive Muslims: On justice, gender, and pluralism

Omid Safi, 2018. Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition

Parthiban Muniandy, 2015. Politics of the Temporary: An Ethnography of Migrant Life in Urban Malaysia

Paulo Freire, 1968. Pedagogy Of The Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition

Peter Gelderloos, 2022. The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution From Below

Prentis Hemphill, 2024. What It Takes To Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change The World

Priyamvada Gopal, 2019. Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Rachel Mann, 2012. Dazzling Darkness: Gender, Sexuality, Illness and God

Rafia Zakaria, 2021. Against White Feminism: Notes On Disruption

Ramon Harvey, 2017. The Qur'an and the Just Society

Rashid Khalidi, 2020. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

Raul Zibechi with George Ygarza Quispe, 2024. Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America

Ricardo Wilson-Grau, 2018. Outcome Harvesting: Principles, Steps, and Evaluation Applications

Rkia Elaroui Cornell, 2019. Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya

Ronny Agustinus, 2021. Macondo, Para Raksasa, dan Lain-Lain Hal: Seputar Sastra Amerika Latin. Tanda Baca.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, 2014. An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Ruha Benjamin, 2022. Viral Justice: How We Grow The World We Want

Ruha Benjamin, 2024. Imagination: A Manifesto

Rutger Bregman, 2019. Humankind: A Hopeful History

Sa’diyya Shaikh, 2012. Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn ‘Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality

Sa'diyya Shaikh and Fatima Seedat, 2022. The Women's Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World

Saidiya Hartman, 2008. Venus in Two Acts

Sam Wallman, 2022. Our Members Be Unlimited: A comic about workers and their unions

Sara Ahmed, 2017. Living a Feminist Life

Sarah Wynn-Williams, 2025. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism.

Sarra Tlili, 2012. Animals in the Qur'an

Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe, 2024. Thunder Song: Essays

Saskia E. Wieringa, 1999. Penghancuran Gerakan Perempuan di Indonesia.

Shadaab Rahemtulla, 2017. Qur'an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam

Shaharuddin Maaruf, 2014. Concept of a Hero in Malay Society.

Shane Burley, 2022. No Pasarán: Antifascist Dispatches from a World In Crisis

Shane Burley and Ben Lorber, 2024. Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide For Fighting Antisemitism

Shoshana Zuboff, 2018. The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight For A Human Future At The New Frontier Of Power

Siddarth Kara, 2023. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Silky Shah, 2024. Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Simon Wiesenthal, 1998. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Sofia Rehman, 2023. A Treasury of Aisha: A Guidance from the Beloved of the Beloved. Kube Publishing.

Sonia Sulaiman (editor), 2024. Thyme Travellers: An anthology of Palestinian speculative fiction

Sönke Ahrens, 2022. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking: 2nd ed.

Sophie K Rosa, 2023. Radical Intimacy

Sophie Mort, 2021. A Manual For Being Human

Stephanie Foo, 2022. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Steven Charleston, 2024. We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope

Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean (editors), 2020. Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

Susan Blackburn and Helen Ting (editors), 2013. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements

Susan Williams, 2021. White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa

Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, 2020. Some Aspects of Sufism: As Understood and Practised Among the Malays

Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied, 2015. Radicals: Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya

Syed Hussein Alatas, 1976. Islam and Socialism

Syed Hussein Alatas, 1977. The Myth of the Lazy Native: A study of the image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th century and its function in the ideology of colonial capitalism

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, 1978. Islam and Secularism

Sylvia Wynter, 2003. Unsettling the Colooniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation - An Argument

Tamim Ansary, 2009. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (2009)

Tamim Ansary, 2019. The Invention Of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection

Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2024. The Message

Terrence Real, 2001. How Can I Get Through to You?: Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women

Terry Eagleton, 2011. Why Marx Was Right

Thant Myint-U, 2019. The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

Thongchai Winichakul, 1994. Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation

Tyson Yunkaporta, 2020. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World

Verso, 2010. The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

Victor Frankl, 1946. Man's Search For Meaning

Vincent Bevin, 2023. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevin, 2020. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Virgina Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, 1984. Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

W. David Marx, 2022. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

Wael Hallaq, 2012. The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament. Columbia University Press

Waguih Ghali, 1964. Beer In The Snooker Club. Vintage.

Walter Rodney, 1971. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney, 2021. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

Walter W. Skeat, 1900. Malay Magic: An Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay Peninsula

William R. Roff, 2009. Studies on Islam and Society in Southeast Asia

Yōko Tawada, 2025. Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

Zahra Ayubi, 2019. Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic ethics of the self, family, and society

Is this list meant to be a flex?

Rather than see this as me showing off, I hope you can see this list as the opposite of gatekeeping, like as:

1. starting points to encounter ideas and topics you want to learn more about (if you're not much of a reader, ask me to walk you through my notes from a particular text— I could be open to it)
2. a practice of citation as feminist memory— although I will always share references for each Thing I make, I still think it is a worthy exercise to put it all in one place, so that so people who are interested in my working collection can have a full list
3. a practice of self-disclosure to show you what informs my lifelong learning (and therefore where my gaps in exposure are too).