An in-exhaustive list of readings which have influenced my practice to date. The books featured in this list may or may not still influence my practice, but all have at one point over the years. This list will be added to as I remember things or read new writings. Maybe one day it will even feature categorisation!
- Glitch Feminism – Legacy Russel
- A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology
- Manhunt – Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they’ll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren’t safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics-all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons. Manhunt is a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror.
- Cuckoo – Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Invasion of the Bodysnatchers meets Tell Me I’m Worthless in this relentless and visceral horror about a group of queer kids trying to survive the conversion camp from hell, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Manhunt Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin. In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived—but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person. Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it’s too late. The fate of the world depends on it.
- Feral Consciousness – Julian Langer
- A student of philosophy, Langer has brought the celebrated minds of thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Louis Althusser – to name a few – into contact with current environmentalism. Langer presents the cold, hard reality of climate change in a no-holds-barred attitude. However, the book is as witty and humorous as it is cynical – Langer shares personal anecdotes, and some well-placed hash tags.
- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity – Judith Butler
- Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category ‘woman’ and continues in this vein with examinations of ‘the masculine’ and ‘the feminine’. It considers gender as a reiterated social “performance” rather than the expression of a prior reality