Accessibility on all fronts has been compromised due to our current global pandemic. I don’t know how long or how many times I am going to have to write the prior sentence, but we at TERSE. are willing to stay as focused and as stimulated as possible.
I’ve been reading that a lot of writers are struggling with productivity and motivation during this time. That is completely understandable, and we honor our writing community’s unique and individual experiences. Personally, I’ve been thinking a lot about the past, and the past becoming the future. TERSE. has been running for a few years now, and I like the idea of archiving some of the work we’ve done in the past. I believe our work has a new purpose – sustaining our active and creative minds for the future.
Here are 64 books that have been compiled from our previously published Reading Lists. We wish you safety, intellectual inspiration and existential stimulation while we wait for the world new world to emerge right before our eyes.
By: Theodore W. Adamo
The Use of Pleasure: Volume 2 of the History of Sexuality
By: Michel Foucault
As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
By Susan Sontag, Edited By David Rieff
Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Modern Era By: Anthony Giddens
Edited by Judith Butler, Zaynap Gambatti, Leticia Sabsay
Aesthetic Justice: Interesting Artistic and Moral Perspectives
Edited By: Pascal Gielen, Niels Van Tomme
By Chris Crass
By: Richard Wolin
Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois
By: Gerald Horne
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
By: Maggie Nelson
By: Joyce Carol Oates
By: Kahlil Gibran
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W. E. B. Du Bois
By: Hannah Arendt
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
By: Brittney C. Cooper
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
By: Alexis Shotwell
By: Peter Singer
Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society
By: Michael Albert
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
By: Sigmund Freud
Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends & Others
By China Martens
One Dimensional Woman
By Nina Power
Role Models
By John Waters
Listen Up: Voices From the Next Generation
By: Barbara Findlen
The Concept and Measurement of Violence Against Women and Men
By: Sylvia Walby, Jude Towers, Susan Balderston, Brian Francis
Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII
By: Marc De Kesel
A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Reader
Edited By: Frances Smith Foster
Listen Little Man
By: Wilhelm Reich
New Black Man
By: Mark Anthony Neal
Masculinity Studies & Feminist Theory: New Directions
By: Judith Kegan Gardiner
Sex, Drag, and Male Roles: Investigating Gender as Performance
By: Diane Torr and Stephen J. Bottoms
Hope in the Holler: A Womanist Theology
By: A. Elaine Brown Crawford
The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
By: Sameena Mulla
Sister Outsider
By: Audre Lorde
On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives, 1950-1970
By Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006
By Joyce Carol Oates
Shotgun Seamstress Zine Collection: Six Zine by and for Black Punks
By: Osa Atoe
Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers
By: Grace Llewellyn
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Edited By: Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Barbara D. Savage
By: Patricia Hill Collins
By: Patricia Hill Collins
Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
By: Michèle Barrett
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition Writings by Radical Women of Color
By: Cherríe Moraga
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way
By: Alice Walker
In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence
By: Kristin Bumiller
Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
By: Michelle Murphy
By: Danielle L. McGuire
Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
By: Erik S. McDuffie
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality And Intimacy
By: Tricia Rose
Sisterhood is Forever: the women’s anthology for a new millenium
By Robin Morgan
Globalization and Its Discontents: essays on the new mobility of people and money
By Saskia Sassen
By William Shakespeare
Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare
By Victor Kiernan
By Richard Murphy
From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story
By Rob Tanner
Alan Paton
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
By Harold Bloom
by Sylvia Plath
Jazz Diasporas: Race Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris
By Rashida K. Braggs
Outliers: The Story of Success
By Malcolm Gladwell
Edited By Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay
Creative Writer’s Notebook: 20 Great Authors & 70 Writing Exercises
By John Gillard
By bell hooks
By Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
By Albert Camus