Do The Work

By Ecstatic Attic

Do The Work

By Ecstatic Attic

"The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward." - Ijeoma Oluo

This list is a very small selection of the books that one or both of us has read which we feel have helped us in this fight. Educating us, giving us perspective, giving us tools. We must continue this fight so that we can move forward.

So You Want to Talk about Race

Ijeoma Oluo

$18.99 $17.66

100% of our commissions for sales of this book will be donated directly to Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, in perpetuity. If you've already read it or you already own it, buy extra copies to give away! Buy it even if it's back-ordered and if you haven't read it before, borrow it from the library as an e-book or audiobook to read/listen to it while you wait. Then when you get your copy, read it again.

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

$26.00 $24.18

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

$9.99 $9.29

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

$14.00 $13.02

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

$18.00 $16.74

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

Robin Diangelo

$16.00 $14.89

WHITE PEOPLE. READ THIS BOOK. THEN READ IT AGAIN. AND AGAIN. AND AGAIN. UNTIL YOU THINK YOU GET IT. AND THEN READ IT AGAIN. AND THEN ONCE MORE, SLOWLY, FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. stop doubling down. sit with your own discomfort instead of pushing your messes onto other people.