giving everyone lots of heads up time on this one! (I just ordered my copy)

In July, #slowBookClub will read Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis https://www.sevenstories.com/books/2907-are-prisons-obsolete

we'll meet Tuesday July 28 at 6p pacific, sign up here for reminders: https://luma.com/rzw3804p

#slowBookClub is finishing up our current book this week, and our next meeting will be Tues June 23 at 6p pacific https://luma.com/ssrhkbvh

we're reading

W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
Visualizing Black America https://bookshop.org/p/books/w-e-b-du-bois-s-data-portraits-visualizing-black-america-the-w-e-b-du-bois-center-at-the-university-of-massachusetts-amherst/56ce4b6e726b7b86?ean=9781616897062&next=t&next=t

and you're welcome to join if that sounds interesting, or if like me, the book has been lingering on your shelf for some time!

#dataviz #books #bookClub

#slowBookClub is plugging along! we're going to finish Abolition Geography next month.

Wanted to post to start talking about the next two books:

June: W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits
Visualizing Black America https://bookshop.org/p/books/w-e-b-du-bois-s-data-portraits-visualizing-black-america-the-w-e-b-du-bois-center-at-the-university-of-massachusetts-amherst/56ce4b6e726b7b86?ean=9781616897062&next=t&next=t

July: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis https://www.sevenstories.com/books/2907-are-prisons-obsolete

Both are fairly short, and I think we can happily tackle them in a single session for each.

#dataviz folks - you may be interested in joining us in June!

i'm glad #slowBookClub is happening and that i did indeed do the reading.

I'm trying to not feel too bad about not having the energy to make notes ahead and try to guide a discussion.

the goal was reading the book. the goal was met. everything else is bonus.

#slowBookClub meta post

I am SUPER pleased with how the book club is going. I'm reading challenging things because I'm creating a social contract that I will, AND I'm getting really amazing and illuminating discussions with the folks who show up! The book club part still feels like a "bonus" but more and more like a really good one! Also everyone who has joined any iteration of it has been really wonderful and great to talk with.

Big thanks to everyone who has participated. You are all so fun to learn things with!

#slowBookClub will be back at the end of March. (6p Pacific, on Tuesday March 31 https://everytimezone.com/s/2b199dc7)

​We're reading Part 2 of Abolition Geography , Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore https://bookshop.org/p/books/abolition-geography-essays-towards-liberation-ruth-wilson-gilmore/81ff3aa7e0363ddc

Part 2 is titled "Race and Space" (presumably space as in "geography"!) and is about 100 pages.

Part 1 was kind of setting the stage of scholarship and activism. I'm honestly more excited for the other parts. You are totally welcome to join us if you read some of Part 2 even if you skip Part 1. (i do think you might like the last section of Part 1, which is also quite short)

sign up here https://luma.com/fzukzvz1 for a reminder!

What are you currently reading?

Finding The Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard, about trees' communication and symbiotic relationships with each other and with the fungi and other life in the soil.
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What did you recently finish reading?

The Last Hour Between Worlds, by Melissa Caruso

What do you think you’ll read next?

Abolition Geography, by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, for #SlowBookClub

#bookstodon #wwwWednesday

#slowBookClub resumes Tues, Feb 24, 6p Pacific https://everytimezone.com/s/b3e30825

​We're reading Part 1 of Abolition Geography , Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore https://bookshop.org/p/books/abolition-geography-essays-towards-liberation-ruth-wilson-gilmore/81ff3aa7e0363ddc

The book is conveniently split into 4 parts, so I am proposing we read it in 4 sessions.

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