Radical Reading Club
Radical Students’ Union @ UMW
Radical simply means to go to the root. -Angela Y. Davis
Welcome to Radical Reading, an 8 week book club featuring different revolutionaries, their theories and texts, alongside weekly discussion meetings on Zoom. Below we have links for each reading, and a google form for you to submit any questions you want to discuss.
To join the discussion meetings, sign up here.
Don’t feel pressured to join every meeting, as this is all just for fun!
- Week 1, June 1st: From Allies To Comrades
- Text: “From Allies to Comrades” by Jodi Dean
- From Comrade: An Essay On Political Belonging (2019)
- Submit Questions Here
- Week 2, June 8th: Housing and Tenant Organizing
- Text: Selections from “The Housing Issue” ed. Natalie Hrizi
- From Breaking The Chains: A Socialist Perspective on Women’s Liberation (Fall 2018)
- Submit Questions Here
In response to the global uprising, from here we have transitioned to The End of Policing by Alex Vitale.
- Week 3, June 15th: The Limits of Police Reform
- The End of Policing, Chapter 1
- Submit Questions Here
- Week 4, June 22nd: The Police Are Not Here To Protect You
- The End of Policing, Chapter 2
- Submit Questions Here
- Week 5, June 29th: The School-to-Prison Pipeline
- The End of Policing, Chapter 3
- Submit Questions Here
- Week 6, July 6th: “We Called for Help, and They Killed My Son”
- The End of Policing, Chapter 4
- Submit Questions Here
- Week 7, July 13th: Criminalizing Homelessness
- The End of Policing, Chapter 5
- Submit Questions Here
- Week 8, July 20th: The Failures of Policing Sex Work
- The End of Policing, Chapter 6
- Submit Questions Here
- Week 9, July 27th: The War on Drugs
- The End of Policing, Chapter 7
- Week 10, August 3rd: Gang Suppression
- The End of Policing, Chapter 8
- Week 11, August 10th: Border Policing
- The End of Policing, Chapter 9
- Week 12, August 17th: Political Policing & Conclusion
- The End of Policing, Chapter 10
- The End of Policing, Conclusion
- Black August Bonus
- “The Social Function of The Prisons in The United States”
- Audiobook (~20m)