reading list

updated 16 July 2026

This is a list that began when I took my year sabbatical from movement work so that I could share what I was reading. I've continued to add to it over time, including most of what books or articles or zines that feel important to what I’m writing and how I'm thinking about movement and organizing work.

Also, check out the Summer Reading List for Minneapolis 2026 that a couple of us put together.

Current books:

Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto by The Peoples Want

Past reads and recommendations:

Hope without hope: Rojava and revolutionary commitment by Matt Broomfield (2025)

The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins by Anna Tsing (2015)

Cobb, C.E. (2014). This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed. Duke University Press.

Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the prison notebooks. International Publishers Co.
*many thanks to Michael Denning for his suggestions on content and order
*check out podcast for what inspired me to read this starting with part 1 here

Dirik, D. (2022). The Kurdish women’s movement: History, theory, practice. Pluto Press.

Additional recent readings, listenings, etc:

Hayes, K. & Kaba, M. (2023, June 15). Rejecting our fear of each other. Inquest. https://inquest.org/rejecting-our-fear-of-each-other/

Hayes, K., & Kaba, M. (2023, September 6). How much discomfort is the whole world worth? Boston Review. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-much-discomfort-is-the-whole-world-worth/

Podcasts:

Death Panel hosted by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and

Movement Memos hosted by Kelly Hayes

Tech Won't Save Us hosted by Paris Marx