Today! In 1 hour! Our closing session reflections, which I’ve titled BANGARANG since I’m a MILLENNIAL: www.youtube.com/live/mWRYrgH... #AgitationAugust 🪧
Tmw, our final and fabulous #AgitationAugust guest, Marcie from @BrownGirlCollective! Jump in with us LIVE to talk about Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson’s WE REFUSE 🤌 at 3pm PDT/6pm EDT ⏰
www.youtube.com/live/xxpbzso...
Today at 10am PDT! ⏰ #AgitationAugust
Ven and I are discussing a #classicoffascism and a new #transvoice novel: how do they get him agitated?? Join us live for #AgitationAugust, 10am PDT tmw ⏰
#1984isnow #andrewjosephwhite
Last week of #AgitationAugust!! Have you read any of these?
M: Melinda, awebofstories: ATTACK FROM WITHIN
T: Ven @venscorner.bsky.social 1984/HELL...
W: Leo @pdxleo.bsky.social: ALL WE CAN SAVE
R: Marcie, BrownGirlCollective WE REFUSE
F: Closing Convo
Join Live/Catch the replay! bit.ly/booktubemp 🥳
1984, through a lunch darkly…
Ahoy, #AgitationAugust! (@vens_corner’s pick)
And tmw to wrap up Week 3, we have a premiere with author Marion Grace Woolley! We'll be chatting about the fascinating book, EMERGENCY SEX, by a trio of UN aid workers in the 1990s #WriterInRwanda #AgitationAugust Join us in the live chat with your Questions! ⏰ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjj...
Tomorrow 7 pm CAT/6 pm GMT/10 am PDT I'll be on YouTube talking about this book as part of #AgitationAugust - reads that really shook us up. It's a premier, so I'll be hanging in the chat to say hi. Set notification/catch up here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySjj...
#lovebooks #reading #socialjustice
Gareth’s turn today, and we’ll be talking #ClassConsciousness and hopefully #SolidarityNow too, for #AgitationAugust! 3pm PDT/ 11pm BST ⏰ bit.ly/booktubemp ❤️🔥
Today! Join Grace and me to discuss (heatedly, I’m sure) HOW TO RESIST AMAZON AND WHY by Danny Caine: www.youtube.com/live/5q3WJ4K... #AgitationAugust #ResistAmazon Toss us some of your critical thinking questions!
This week's #AgitationAugust guests! Since Leo had to reschedule to next week:
TUE: Grace, Books N Cooks: HOW TO RESIST AMAZON
THU: Gareth, Books, Songs & Other Magic MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS
FRI: Marion, Writer in Rwanda, EMERGENCY SEX
Join Live/Catch the replay! bit.ly/booktubemp 🥳
Friday 10am PDT, our lovely #AgitationAugust is #BookChatWithPat, the teacher we all wish we could have had!
We're chatting HOW WE LEARN TO BE BRAVE by Mariann Edgar Budde. Hope you can join us live, or on #TeamRewatch! ⏰https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE1Mqp1dISk #indivisible #resist
Next up we have a #dystopia that turns out to be hopeful...
*record scratch* WHAT?!??
Yes! I'm talking to Rachel about @naomikritzer.bsky.social's story, The Year Without Sunshine, WED at 10am PDT ⏰ for #AgitationAugust. Join live or catch the replay:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBc8...
To follow up our #GenAI discussion from yesterday for #AgitationAugust: this is a FUNDAMENTAL point.
All the #HowTo books at once!
Clockwise from top right:
How Trust Works, Kim
How to Kill a City, Moskowitz
How We Learn to be Brave, Budde
How to Save the World for Free, Fée
#AgitationAugust #Climathon🥵 have you read any of these?
✨What book shook you up & made you change something in your life? Live guests all week for #AgitationAugust!
M @bookishtexan #GenerativeAI
T @cobaltdragon #TrustingTheSelf
W @rkstumblingbear #WhenDystopiaArrives
R @authoreloisebahr.bsky.social #NewFeminists
F @bookchatwithpat #LearningToBeBrave 💙💚💜
My guest today = @jennablum.bsky.social! 3pm PDT to discuss #OnTyranny by Timothy Snyder, a work that gets us agitated-- join us for #AgitationAugust! Get your free #AntiTyranny booster shot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTcw... Bring your #Bingo card!! 💚 @amightyblaze.bsky.social
Leslie is up tomorrow! 7pm PDT to discuss the work of #SocialJustice for #HSP but also #Decolonizing the Mind will make an appearance. Basically, this is a free-roaming conversation--please join us for #AgitationAugust! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Mo...
Wow @naomikritzer.bsky.social Just read your A Year Without Sunshine story in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and laughed and cried in succession. We'll be talking about it 8/13 for #AgitationAugust on my Youtube channel--thank you for your work.🫶🏼 www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
Photo of a notebook with small unreadable writing, with some lines connecting different subjects
It’s a top-secret diagram for my plotting of #AgitationAugust, heheh
✨"What book shook you up & made you change something in your life?" I'll ask a guest on YT every weekday of #AgitationAugust.
8/4 @browngirlreading.bsky.social Parable of the Sower
8/7 Leslie @booksgurrsandpurrs Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
8/8 Jenna @jennablum.bsky.social On Tyranny
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Hello, my lovelies for #AgitationAugust! Tune in every weekday in August for critical reading discussions that transform lives 💚www.patreon.com/posts/agitation-august-1... with THESE BOOKTUBE WONDERS!
✨All 3 Bingo cards for #agitationaugust! Download your favorite colored one!
Each interviewee brings a book & a WORD. A fancy, $5 word that brings them joy or amusement.
Mark a square completed when you hear THE WORD from a guest (write their name in the box to verify). bit.ly/booktubemp
✨3rd Bingo card for #agitationaugust! (a month-long interview series on #BookTube 📢)
Each interviewee brings a book & a WORD. A fancy, $5 word that brings them joy or amusement.
Mark a square completed when you hear THE WORD from a guest (write their name in the box to verify). bit.ly/booktubemp
Thumbnail with photo of Margaret Pinard and covers of THE CANDID LIFE OF MEENA DAVE; SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR THE SENSITIVE SOUL; LADY VIOLET GOES FOR A GALLOP; HELL FOLLOWED WITH US; PARABLE OF THE SOWER; EMERGENCY SEX; A SPEAR OF SUMMER GRASS; THE CASE OF THE DEADLY BUTTER CHICKEN; THIS IS SHANGHAI
A sultry book summer! Who's with me?
Nine books for this #WedWrapUp, including some for #AgitationAugust and lots for random #MoodReads! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds0g...
Live at 10am PDT, replay whenever 😎
✨The 2nd Bingo card for #agitationaugust! (a month-long interview series on #BookTube 📢)
Each interviewee brings a book & a WORD. A fancy, $5 word that brings them joy or amusement.
Mark a square completed when you hear THE WORD from a guest (write their name in the box to verify). bit.ly/booktubemp
Just recorded the only prerecorded episode of #AgitationAugust and it was amazing! Really looking forward to livestreaming the rest with all these brilliant people next month! Sign up to get the notifications and find a community of agitators! 🫶🏼
✨The 1st Bingo card for #agitationaugust! (a month-long interview series on #BookTube 📢)
Each interviewee brings a book & a WORD. A fancy, $5 word that brings them joy or amusement.
Mark a square completed when you hear THE WORD from a guest (write their name in the box to verify). bit.ly/booktubemp
calendar graphic for august 2025 with thumbnail book covers over 16 days of the month
What's #AgitationAugust?
My small #BooktubeCommunity effort to get people talking about critical reading, anti-intellectual creep, and how to fight back. Welcome, guests! Please put this on your calendar and join in the conversations about books on your TBR! 🙏🏼
What are YOU doing in August? #AgitationAugust #BookCommunity www.patreon.com/posts/two-on... #mondayblogs