The SWMA Book Club is for members who would like to read and discuss a book together for the purpose of informing or inspiring our collective work together and/or our individual work as SWMA members.

Book Club 2.0 was launched in April 2024, and has so far read:

• June - July 2024: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown**
• August - September 2024: Mutual Aid by Dean Spade **
• October - December 2024: The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin

** recommended as fantastic introductory resources for folks entering mutual aid work, and was read by Book Club 1.0, too!

Below is not THE reading list that we'll definitely work through, but more so a landing page for folks to add possibly relevant book suggestions. They do not have been previously read and “vetted”.

If your addition is intended as a suggestion for the book club to read in community, please provide some information about the book and how/why you think it would fit with book club goals, so that members know why you are suggesting it. Fiction and nonfiction both welcome.

Future book club picks will be decided via poll on Slack.

Reading List:

• We Do This ‘Til We Free Us - Mariame Kabe
• Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 - M. E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction - David Garland