Aloe's Website
My Bookshelf!
Where I find books:
Honestly, I usually just type the name of the book and "pdf" at the end and poke around to see if there's a copy floating around. But here are places that you can use as well!
- https://archive.org
- https://transreads.org
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/
- https://rejectpile.neocities.org/digital-library
- Anna's Archive
- Seems like the url for Anna's Archive changes sometimes so I reference wikipedia and see what url they have there!
Books I think Everyone Should Read :3
- Whipping Girl by Julia Serano
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft
- This book is a bit heteronormative but has really good information on abuse dynamics. If nothing else, I think everyone should read the myths about abuse.
Books In Rotation:
- How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
- How to Live a Good Life Edited By Massimo Pigliucci, Skye C. Cleary, Daniel A. Kaufman
- The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities Edited by Ching-In Chen, Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Books I Want To Read!
- Conflict Is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman
- The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
- Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality by Margot Weiss
- Against Empathy by Paul Bloom
- How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- What Even is Gender? by R. A. Briggs and B. R. George
- A Short History of Transmisogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
- Liquid Modernity Zygmunt Bauman
- The Promise of Happiness by Sarah Ahmed
- Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown
Other Books I Like!
- Relationality by David Jay
- I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom
- The Gift Of Not Belonging by Rami Kaminski, MD
- All About Love by bell hooks
- Complex PTSD by Pete Walker
- How to Love in a F*cked Up World by Dean Spade
- The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
- Inner Bonding by Margaret Paul
- Love in Exile by Shon Faye
- Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
- Attached by Amir Levine, M.D., and Rachel Heller, M.A.
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- Being Peace by Thich Naht Hanh
- Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw
- Polysecure by Jessica Fern
- Internal Family Systems by Richard Schwartz