In this episode, Kineo, Zain, and Sofia discuss the importance of reading and sharing knowledge in our communities. They discuss fiction books that have informed each of their personal climate and social justice activism. If you are interested in reading any of these books, here are more details: 

Main recommendations (alphabetical order): 

1. Beloved

2. Black and White

3. The Bluest Eye

4. Ceremony

5. The God of Small Things

6. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

7. Libertad

8. Love Medicine

9. One Piece - Arabasta Arc, Volumes 17-24

10. One Piece - Skypiea Arc, Volumes 26-32

11. Parable of the Sower

12. The Setting Sun

13. The Street

14. There There 

15. Wandering Stars

Bonus recommendations: 

1. Always Running

2. Enrique’s Journey

3. Khaled Hosseini:

1. The Kite Runner

2. A Thousand Splendid Suns

3. And the Mountains Echoed 

4. The Night Watchman

5. Legend Series

6. Zeitoun

Recommendations (Non-Fiction) from Instagram user @​​aesopchild: 

1. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

2. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

3. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

4. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

Youth United for Climate Crisis Action (YUCCA) is a project of Earth Care International. Learn more about YUCCA at www.yuccanm.org. Contact us at [email protected].

This episode was recorded by Kineo Memmer, Sofia Jenkins-Nieto, and Zain Dixon. It was produced and edited by Kineo Memmer. Introductory and outro song sampled from: Eileen & the in-Betweens. “Free Palestine (On Fire).” Records DK, 2024.