They tried to teach you gravity, limits, bedtime, and obedience 🌌📖
But here you are—floating above the city, protected by stories, quietly unreachable ✨🫧
Reading isn’t escape.
It’s resistance.
#ProvocativeArt #ReadingAsRebellion #ImaginationOverRules #StoriesChangeEverything #DreamReaders
I did not know that Emmett Till's father, Louis, was court-martialed (U.S. Army) and executed in Italy on July 2, 1945. 😤
#ReadingAsRebellion
But none of them own books. #ReadingAsRebellion
Andrew Johnson wrecked Reconstruction. 1865–69: vetoed Freedmen’s Bureau & Civil Rights Act; pardoned ex-Confederates. 1868: impeached, saved by one vote. His “black rule” propaganda branded Reconstruction illegitimate—white supremacy squandered the Union’s win. #ReadingAsRebellion
1803–1812: From the Louisiana Purchase to the War of 1812—Neutral Ground & Black Code (1806), Cuban refugees (1809), West Florida + independence tremors (1810–11). In these hinge years, Black movement flipped empire’s fears into leverage—the border is a door. #ReadingAsRebellion
You’ll dig it. Isenberg will change how you read America. Pair it with Dickens on Five Points and Scorsese’s (inaccurate) Gangs of New York—the throughlines snap into focus. #ReadingAsRebellion
February reading.
In observance of #blackhistorymonth, I opted to read about those who feminism forgot, as well as the history of affirmative action in the US.
Then I went down this weird rabbit hole about fascism and fighting ignorance.
#booksky #readingasrebellion
"Has America ever been a fully functioning
democracy, or democratic republic? Absolutely
not."
#booksky #democracyinretrograde
#readingasrebellion
