The Laura Flanders Show Reading List

NEW! We have begun compiling a list of supplementary reading for our episodes. It is made up of some of the research we do in preparation of production, material by our guests on the show, and additional publications we think provide interesting insight into our show. 

From now on, we will be adding the reading list weekly, on Wednesdays. Think of it as a working bibliography, a syllabus,  a source for further study and inspiration! 

The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 243: Drawing Comix at the Margins with guests Mohammad Saba’aneh and Nate Powell

• Powell, Nate, “About Face.” Popula.com,  Feb 24, 2019
• Dabaie, Margarite, “Mohammad Sabaaneh’s dangerous cartoons” The Electronic Intifada, May 4th, 2017
• Aljamal, M. Yousef, “ On Palestinian Prisoner Day: A Whole Captive Population Longing For Freedom” 
• “Fix this democracy — now: 38 ideas for repairing our badly broken civic life,” The Washington Post, Oct 26, 2017.

The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 242: Integration Won’t Solve Racism in Schools with guests 

• Shapira, Eliza,  “ ‘I Love My Skin!’ Why Black Parents Are Turning to Afrocentric Schools”. The New York Times, Jan 8, 2019. 
• Hannah-Jones, Nikole, “Choosing a school for my daughter in a segregated city.” June 9, 2016
• Harris, Adam, “Can Richard Carranza Integrate the most Segregated School System in the Country?” The Atlantic, July 23rd, 2018. 
• “The Problem We All Live With.” This American Life,  July 31, 2015. 

The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 241: Are Women Better at Waging Peace? with Guests Julia Bacha and Gini Reticher.  “Ayesh concealed the pamphlets in loaves of bread and delivered them to families in Gaza’s refugee camps, whilst carrying her newborn in a sling over her back.” —-Hankir on the activism of Naila Ayesh, of the film Naila and the Uprising (read Hankir’s article below). 

• Hankir, Zahra, 'My story is one of many': The Palestinian women behind the First Intifada, Middle East Eye, 13 March 2018.
• Marroushi, Nadine, “The struggles - and hopes - of Hend Nafea,” Middle East Eye, 9 February 2015.
• Principe, Marie A. Women in nonviolent Movements. United States Institute of Peace, 2017.

The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 240: Can Marijuana Create a Path to Justice? with Guests Kassandra Frederique, Raybblin Vargas, and Mary Pryor.  

• Curious about Cannabis?  Read the Drug Policy Alliance’s Marijuana Facts Handbook to learn about the history of Marijuana and Marijuana politics (4,000 B.C. is the earliest recorded medical use of the plant!)
• Did you know that 100 and 110 million Americans are members of co-ops and there are 800 million people world-wide who are co-op members? For more on cooperatives, read this introduction by Gar Alperovitz.  

The Laura Flanders Show Reading List—Episode 239: Gender Ideology: A Pretext for Murder in Brazil with guests Yifaf Susskind and K.K. Verdade. Interested in the politics of Mariel Franco’s murder and hegemonic masculinity in Brazil? Here are some of our recommendations—

• Reist, Stephanie, “Finding Marielle Franco’s Killers.” Jacobin, March 22, 2019. 
• Lodoño, Ernesto. “A Year After Her Killing, Marielle Franco Has Become a Rallying Cry in a Polarized Brazil,” The New York Times. March 14th, 2019. 
• Prandini Assis, Mariana & Ana Carolina Ogando, “Bolsonaro, 'gender ideology' and hegemonic masculinity in Brazil.”  Aljazeera, October 31, 2018.