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Officially Tara 🕷️ 
🌹"To understand the past, we must investigate the stories we were not told, because those stories were withheld for a reason."
- Kelly Hayes, *Let This Radicalize You*
a couple of specific book recommendations that I've read that have helped me fill those gaps:
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Transgender History by Susan Stryker
there are many others on my to-read list... I'd love to add more to my queue though, so please add your recommendations for history books that focus on the traditionally overlooked and oppressed!
("An Indigenous People's History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and "A People's History of The World" by Chris Harman are at the top of my list but i have not read them yet)
jason has moved to aus.social 
𓀬@tarajdactyl if you're interested in reading about Australia I have a couple recommendations...
First, two books I haven't read all the way through because non-fiction makes me anxious ^^;
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe paints a picture of the history of Indigenous Australians before the, you know, invasion. Not much is known so he's kinda filling in the gaps
- No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani is about the author's recent incarceration on Manus Island, as part of Australia's policy of offshore detention for asylum seekers. If you're not familiar, it's a whole thing,,,
OK lastly a fiction book, I have read this one all the way through and I really like it
- For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke is about early settlement in Australia from the perspective of a convict
Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋 
@tarajdactyl Wow... That hits hard... 😬
@faithisleaping yeah I'm like 5 pages in and I'm loving this book so far 😂
Dawn Tåke 🌙 
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And its not even really marginalized voices that this is true to. One of the huge gaps in my history major is what went on between 1815 and 1861. So I've been interested in what happened then. Reading about the Mexican-American war is one big Oof and wondering (and knowing) why it is completely skipped.
And its not even really marginalized voices that this is true to. One of the huge gaps in my history major is what went on between 1815 and 1861. So I've been interested in what happened then. Reading about the Mexican-American war is one big Oof and wondering (and knowing) why it is completely skipped.