Naturalization: A Queer Genealogy of US Citizenship, Race, and Sexuality by Siobhan B. Somerville

“Intriguing & Insightful! A sharp, nostalgia-free look back at how Dungeons & Dragons started and brought us to where we are now, with clues as to where we might yet go.” - Matt Forbeck, New York Times-bestselling writer and game designer

“Archives of the Anthropocene is a groundbreaking work in environmental media studies, not only for its historical and theoretical contributions but also for a complex architecture that folds the story of Japan’s archipelagic empire into histories of science. Furuhata’s lucid narration guides readers through the intricate media-geological analyses, vast archival finds, and gripping histories that constitute this book.” - Bishnupriya Ghosh, author of The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media

“An insightful account of the complex landscape of the Caribbean Redemption story around independence…one that underscores the longstanding call-and-response between Jamaica and Africa which—through Emperor Haile Selassie’s visit—launches the journey of Rastafari Repatriation. The visit inspired Rastafari leaders like Solomon Wolfe who I would meet in Shashemene, Ethiopia in 1969. Essential reading to fully comprehend the scope of Ethiopianism in the Caribbean.” - P.J. Patterson, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica

“Britt Rusert’s focus on the overlooked significance of William J. Wilson’s speculative museum of Black art is a singular, significant contribution to the development of the study of Black aesthetics in the antebellum and postbellum periods. The Afric-American Picture Gallery fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the power of vision and visual culture for American democracy. Rusert’s work is a triumph.” - Sarah Lewis, author of The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America

“Sick Work is a revelatory, original historiography and ethnography, the first full-length work on ME/CFS. Its framework of energy and exhaustion offers a new way to think about the embodied experience of social reproduction and illness under capitalism. This book makes significant contributions to medical anthropology and sociology, disability studies, history of medicine, and beyond.” - Zoë H. Wool, author of After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed

“This is a fantastic collection. Threaded throughout is the argument that, to perceive and do justice to climate and environmental catastrophe, we need to undo the normative binary of life and non-life. Hybridizing Indigenous and folkloric forms of knowledge with contemporary arts, science, and sustainability aspirations, the essays are haunting, inspiring, insightful, evocative, poetic, tragic, fierce, and grief stricken.” - Samantha Frost, author of Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human

“Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.” - Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. Through her curatorial practice, Sharpe marshals the collective intellectual heft and aesthetic inheritance of the African diaspora to show us the world as it appears from her distinctive line of sight. A searing and brilliant work." - Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

“Black disabled genius is crucial to the work of creating a free present and future. In Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk does so much absolutely brilliant Black queer disabled femme labor of surfacing buried Black disabled activist histories and organizing lessons. Her book is a Black queer disabled love offering, and reading it made me shout for joy and learn so much. I’m so grateful this book is in the world. Read it and give thanks that we get to share the world with the brilliance of Schalk and the organizers she writes about—then get to work putting into practice the lessons you’ve learned, so we can win.” - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

“Passionately exploring queer rave culture, Raving is the fantasy and the moment. There are drugs and sex, tangled love affairs, rejection, the highs and lows of the dance floors, and all the messiness that makes up a rave evening. A potent book.” - madison moore, author of Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

“From the moment I received Sara Ahmed’s new work, Living a Feminist Life, I couldn’t put it down. It’s such a brilliant, witty, visionary new way to think about feminist theory. Everyone should read this book. It offers amazing new ways of knowing and talking about feminist theory and practice. And, it is also delightful, funny, and as the song says, ‘your love has lifted me higher.’ Ahmed lifts us higher.” - bell hooks

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Migration is shaped by shifting political forces, environmental pressures, cultural ties, and deeply personal motivations. Selections in this reading list explore how systems of control, labor, security, race, gender, and climate intersect with lived experiences of movement across borders.

This reading list brings together a curated selection of journal issues, peer-reviewed articles, and scholarly books that examine the cultural, ethical, political, and intellectual dimensions of artificial intelligence. Spanning disciplines across the humanities, this collection highlights questions of power, labor, race, language, authorship, and knowledge production in an era shaped by algorithms.

With Trump’s second term and the rise of right-wing leaders globally, the 2016 election appears less like an anomaly and more like part of a broader rightward shift. This reading list explores how to make sense of this shift by examining its historical context and significance. As these questions arise in many discussions, we offer a collection of books, journal issues, and articles to help readers navigate this political moment.