Inspiration

This is a growing, non-exhaustive collection of resources, including texts, books, interviews, podcasts, as well as documented conversations and practices, by teachers, thinkers, artists, organizers, therapists, writers, and other people whose work has shaped, challenged, accompanied, and inspired my attempt to practice.

bell hooks
Theory as a Liberatory Practice, Teaching to Transgress, All About Love, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love.

adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism, Loving Corrections, Fables & Spells

Prentis Hemphill
What It Takes to Heal, Becoming the People

Malkia Devich-Cyril
Radical Loss

Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower, Kindred, and many more

Sean Saifa Wall
Intersex Justice Project, Letters to an Unborn Son

Farah Saad
Rassismus und biopsychosoziale Gesundheit. Zwischen (De)Thematisierung und widerständiger Praxis.

Parissima Taheri & Farah Saad
Psychosoziale Praxis – Für Wen?

Ümmü Selime Türe & Dshamilja Adeifio Gosteli
Antimuslimischen Rassismus intersektional bearbeiten: Queer-feministische Ansätze für eine antirassistische Beratungspraxis.

Rumeysa Dür-Kwieder
Österreichs Muslim*innen im Brennpunkt österreichischer Sicherheitspolitik

Mia Birdsong
How We Show Up - Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

Alice Wong
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (editor)

Yolo Akili Robinson
B.E.A.M., Unlearning Shame and Remembering Love

Vanessa Spanbauer
Showdown des „Immer-so-gewesen-seins“

Resmaa Menakem
My Grandmother’s Hands

Mariame Kaba
We Do This ’Til We Free Us

Mariame Kaba & Shira Hassan
Fumbling Towards Repair

Natasha A. Kelly
Schwarzer Feminismus

Grada Kilomba
Plantation Memories

Mandy Henningham
Blak, Bi+ and Borderlands: An Autoethnography on Multiplicities of Indigenous Queer Identities Using Borderland Theory

Walidah Imarisha
Rewriting the Future: Using Science Fiction to Re-Envision Justice

Rina Malagayo Alluri
Are Good Intentions Enough? Reflections on Decolonization and Peace Studies

Tarana Burke & Brené Brown
You Are Your Best Thing

Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks

Emilia Roig
Why We Matter

Sandeep Bakshi
The Decolonial Eye/I: Decolonial Enunciations of Queer Diasporic Practices.

Mia Mingus
Transformative Justice: A Brief Description.

Amma Yeboah
Rassismus und psychische Gesundheit in Deutschland.

Stephanie Cuff-Schöttle
DE_CONSTRUCT Lab, Rassismussensible systemische Beratung und Therapie

Gabor Maté
The Myth of Normal

Dean Spade
love in a f*cked up world.
How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together.

…and many more.