Those are three big names that come to my mind whose work I've read and who are still alive and contributing to the field today! I did my undergraduate degree in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and now I'm working on my Master's in Disability Studies (which is adjacent) so I'm mostly familiar with Queer / Trans Theorists and Disabled activists/theorists. Key players in those fields (to me) are José Esteban Muñoz, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Dean Spade...and Lydia X. Z. Brown, Judith Heumann, Eli Clare, Robert McRuer, and Alice Wong, respectively.
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Roland Barthes
Virginia Woolf
Walter Benjamin
Hannah Arendt
Mary McCarthy
i struggle to provide a list of non-white authors that write in a “similar” style to didion for so many reasons….the constraint of delivery is not sitting easily with me SO here are memorable non-white essayists and memoirists that I recommend in general:
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
Maya Angelou
Roxane Gay
Legacy Russell
Xochitl Gonzalez
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Nov 28, 2024
A mix of classics and incredible recently published work
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine - Noura Erakat
Slow Down - Kohei Saito
The Great Displacement - Jake Bittle
Reconsidering Reparations - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Losing Earth: A Recent History - Nathaniel Rich
All We Can Save - edited by Dr Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson
As Long as Grass Grows - Dina Gilio Whitaker
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Shock Doctrine- Naomi Klein
Orwell’s Roses - Rebecca Solnit
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex - edited by Matilda Bickers
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum - Françoise Vergès
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance - Shourideh Molavi
The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina - Mercedes Biocca
Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice - edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein
And one extra for the season:
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror - edited by Joe Vallese
Oct 19, 2024
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Sophie Lewis, Christina Sharpe, Clair Wills, Brian Dillon, Lola Olufemi, Elizabeth Hardwick, Francesca Wade, Annie Ernaux, Carmen Maria Machado, Darryl Pinckney, Leslie Jamison, Françoise Vergés………reading good stuff that even isn’t related to what i do just inspires me to be a better writer and a more careful conscientious thinker. recently finished Jason Okundaye’s Revolutionary Acts which is a superb, beautifully written oral history.
Mar 24, 2024
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Jan 23, 2025
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I was a pretty self-centered kid (as most of us are, developmentally) until I went through some things that made me expand my own horizons surrounding how I judge/don't judge other people. It's good to remember that we're all trying our best out here.
Jan 16, 2025