For Aquarius Sun/Moon/Rising/Mercury Signs
Aquarians are eccentric and free-spirited. They tend to be progressive, fiercely independent, utterly intelligent, unique, and idealistic. They are widely known for their weirdness, ability to intellectualize emotion, and changemaker mindset. Since they are air signs, they are versatile, uncomfortable with being categorized into one box, and prefer an out-of-the-box thinking style.
Aquarius Book Recommendations
For these reasons, I’ve chosen books to help our Aquarian homies hone in on their weirdness, geek out on speculative science fiction, find solutions to the problems they yearn to solve and create the world they want to live in.
Recommended Aquarius Genres
Dystopian, Speculative Science-Fiction, and Essays about Social Issues, Cultures, & People.
Viral Justice
by Ruha Benjamin
Born of a stubborn hopefulness, Viral Justice offers a passionate, inspiring, and practical vision of how small changes can add up to large ones, transforming our relationships and communities and helping us build a more just and joyful world.
The Survivalists
by Kashana Cauley
The Survivalists is a darkly humorous novel from a smart and relevant new literary voice that’s packed with tension, curiosity and wit, and unafraid to ask the questions most relevant to a new generation of Americans: Does it make sense to climb the corporate ladder? What exactly are the politics of gun ownership? And in a world where it’s nearly impossible for young people to earn enough money to afford stable housing, what does it take in order to survive?
How Far the Light Reaches
by Sabrina Imbler
Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a shimmering, otherworldly debut that attunes us to new visions of our world and its miracles.
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
by T Kira Madden
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden’s raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.
Saving Time
by Jenny Odell
Saving Time tugs at the seams of reality as we know it–the way we experience time itself–and rearranges it, imagining a world not centered on work, the office clock, or the profit motive. If we can “save” time by imagining a life, identity, and source of meaning outside these things, time might also save us.
The Disordered Cosmos
by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter–along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie
Part handbook, part road map, No More Police calls on us to turn away from systems that perpetrate violence in the name of ending it toward a world where violence is the exception, and safe, well-resourced and thriving communities are the rule.
Feel Free: Essays
by Zadie Smith
Gathering in one place for the first time previously unpublished work, as well as already classic essays, such as, Joy, and, Find Your Beach, Feel Free offers a survey of important recent events in culture and politics, as well as Smith’s own life. Equally at home in the world of good books and bad politics, Brooklyn-born rappers and the work of Swiss novelists, she is by turns wry, heartfelt, indignant, and incisive–and never any less than perfect company. This is literary journalism at its zenith.
Queering Your Craft: Witchcraft from the Margins
by Cassandra Snow
In this introduction to witchcraft, Snow presents why/how each concept is important to a queer craft, or how to approach it from a queer mindset. For example, conventional prayer, words, and symbols have always been problematic in a queer universe: How to make them work and still be true to yourself? The bulk of the book is about learning the craft. The latter portion is a grimoire of spells.
The Intersectional Environmentalist
by Leah Thomas
The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people — especially those most often unheard.
Making Love with the Land: Essays
by Joshua Whitehead
Intellectually audacious and emotionally compelling, Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly–even joyfully–maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial.
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