As a young person, I walked to and from school every day with my nose stuck in a book. Reading and walking is still one of my favorite ways to spend time. At the beginning of 2020 I started keeping track of what I was reading, wanting to reflect on what was calling my attention at that particular moment in time. What follows is a list of everything I’ve read since then.
Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism, by Silvia Federici
The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sister Outsider, Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, Robert Chapman
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, Jenny Odell
In Universes, Emet North
What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, Prentis Hemphill
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina
Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg
How the Word is Passed: A Reconing with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
Slow Down: the Degrowth Manifesto, Kohei Saito
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks
Freedom Farmers, Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Monica M. White
The Common Pot, The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast, Lisa Brooks
Grand Union, Zadie Smith
Holding Change, adrienne maree brown
Thin Skin: Essays, Jenn Shapland
Wild Seed, Octavia Butler
Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration, Jocelyn Simonson
The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Tremor, Teju Cole
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Inversion, Aric McBay
Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler
Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, Mark V. Paul
Toward an Ecological Society, Murray Bookchin
Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2nd read)
Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World, Carolyn Merchant
Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School, Louellyn White
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States, Audra Simpson
basic call to consciousness, edited by Akwesasne Notes
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming, Liz Carlisle
Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future, edited by Melissa K. Nelson
All In, Cancer, Near Death, New Life. Caitlin Breedlove
A People’s Guide to Capitalism, Hadas Thier
You Are Here, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Body Keeps Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk (Audiobook)
On Fire: The Case for a Green New Deal, Naomi Klein(Audiobook)
How to Blow up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm
How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair
Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
Our Declaration, A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Danielle Allen
Let This Radicalize You, Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save our Earth, by The Red Nation
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Y. Davis
A Darker Wilderness, Black Nature Writing from Soul to Stars, edited by Erin Sharkey
Onigamiising: seasons of an Ojibwe year, Linda LeGarde Grover
When the Whales Leave, Yuri Rytkheu
Trans Allyship Workbook, Davey Shlasko
Walking the Ojibwe Path, Richard Wagamese
How to Blow up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm (DNF)
As Long as Grass Grows, The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
There There, Tommy Orange
Braiding the Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2nd read)
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
Is Everyone Really Equal? Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo
The Undocumented Americans, Carla Cornejo Villavicencio
Abolition. Feminism. Now., Meiners, Dent, Richie, Davis
Emotional Labor, The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power, Rose Hackman
To Be Taught, if Fortunate, Becky Chambers
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Is Gender Fluid? A primer for the 21st Century, Sally Hines
Figuring, Maria Popova (2nd read)
Why? or, How a Peasant Got Into the Land of Anarchy, Abba and Wolf Gordin
When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams
Not Too Late, Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua
The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
Remaking Society, Murray Bookchin
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Ways of Being, James Birdle (DNF)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
Station Six, S.J. Klapecki
Maroons, adrienne maree brown
The Colors of Nature Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, edited by Lauret Savoy and Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
Sky Bridge, Laura Pritchett
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Our Beloved Kin, Lisa Tanya Brooks
An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler
Our History is the Future, Nick Estes
The Seed Keeper, Diane Wilson
Fables and Spells, by adrienne maree brown
Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremecy, edited by carla joy bergman
The Ghandian Iceberg, Chris Moore-Backman
Howard Zinn Speaks, Collected Speeches 1963-2009, Howard Zinn
A Participatory Economy, Robin Hahnel
Enchantments, A Beginner Witch’s Guide, Mya Spalter
The Modern Crisis, Murray Bookchin
Begin the World Over, Kung Li Sun
Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Y. Davis
Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
A Profession Without Reason, The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment, Bruce E. Levine
The Art of Community, Charles H. Vogl
Call Us What We Carry, Amanda Gorman
The Next American Revolution, Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century, Grace Lee Boggs
Overcoming Capitalism, Tom Wetzel
The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon
After the Revolution, Robert Evans
Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong
Home Body, Rupi Kaur
Lessons in Liberation, AK Press
Plants have so much to offer us, all we have to do is ask. Mary Siisip Geniusz
The Weight of the Stars, Augustin Comotto (DNF)
A Country of Ghosts, Margaret Killjoy
Tarot for Change, Jessica Dore
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Johnson & Katharine Wilkinson
Pollution is Colonialism, Max Liboiron (still reading)
Wintering, Katherine May (DNF)
How We Show Up, Mia Birdsong
Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Yet-to-be-named Network Action Guide (from DA course)
Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Abolishing the Police Koshka Duff (AK Press)
Undrowned, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, Erik Olin Wright
Holding Change, adrienne maree brown
Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King Jr.
Spiritual Ecology (collected essays)
We Will Not Cancel Us, adrienne maree brown
Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler
Cassandra Speaks, Elizabeth Lesser
The Apology: V
How to do Nothing, Jenny Odell
Voices in the Air, NYE
The Carrying, Ada Limón
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Mutual Aid, Dean Spade
How to Be an Anti-racist, Ibram X. Kendi
On Death & Dying, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
On Living, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Familiars, Holly Wren Spaulding
The Tradition, Jericho Brown
Averno, Gluck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron
A Room of One’s Own (DNF)
Bowling Alone, (DNF)
Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown
The Hologram, Cassie Thornton
Are.na Annual (On Care)
You Were Born for This, Chani Nicholas
Braiding the Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
2024:
Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism, by Silvia Federici
The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sister Outsider, Essays & Speeches by Audre Lorde
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, Robert Chapman
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock, Jenny Odell
In Universes, Emet North
What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, Prentis Hemphill
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina
Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg
How the Word is Passed: A Reconing with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
Slow Down: the Degrowth Manifesto, Kohei Saito
Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield
Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks
Freedom Farmers, Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Monica M. White
The Common Pot, The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast, Lisa Brooks
Grand Union, Zadie Smith
Holding Change, adrienne maree brown
Thin Skin: Essays, Jenn Shapland
Wild Seed, Octavia Butler
Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration, Jocelyn Simonson
The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Tremor, Teju Cole
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Inversion, Aric McBay
Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler
Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights, Mark V. Paul
Toward an Ecological Society, Murray Bookchin
Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2nd read)
Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World, Carolyn Merchant
Free to be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School, Louellyn White
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States, Audra Simpson
basic call to consciousness, edited by Akwesasne Notes
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming, Liz Carlisle
Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future, edited by Melissa K. Nelson
All In, Cancer, Near Death, New Life. Caitlin Breedlove
A People’s Guide to Capitalism, Hadas Thier
You Are Here, Thich Nhat Hanh
The Body Keeps Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk (Audiobook)
On Fire: The Case for a Green New Deal, Naomi Klein(Audiobook)
How to Blow up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm
How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair
Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
Our Declaration, A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, Danielle Allen
2023:
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel WilkersonLet This Radicalize You, Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Poet Warrior, Joy Harjo
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save our Earth, by The Red Nation
Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Y. Davis
A Darker Wilderness, Black Nature Writing from Soul to Stars, edited by Erin Sharkey
Onigamiising: seasons of an Ojibwe year, Linda LeGarde Grover
When the Whales Leave, Yuri Rytkheu
Trans Allyship Workbook, Davey Shlasko
Walking the Ojibwe Path, Richard Wagamese
How to Blow up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm (DNF)
As Long as Grass Grows, The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
There There, Tommy Orange
Braiding the Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2nd read)
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
Is Everyone Really Equal? Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo
The Undocumented Americans, Carla Cornejo Villavicencio
Abolition. Feminism. Now., Meiners, Dent, Richie, Davis
Emotional Labor, The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power, Rose Hackman
To Be Taught, if Fortunate, Becky Chambers
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Is Gender Fluid? A primer for the 21st Century, Sally Hines
Figuring, Maria Popova (2nd read)
Why? or, How a Peasant Got Into the Land of Anarchy, Abba and Wolf Gordin
When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams
Not Too Late, Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua
The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See
Remaking Society, Murray Bookchin
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Ways of Being, James Birdle (DNF)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass
Station Six, S.J. Klapecki
Maroons, adrienne maree brown
The Colors of Nature Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, edited by Lauret Savoy and Alison Hawthorne Deming
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
Sky Bridge, Laura Pritchett
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Our Beloved Kin, Lisa Tanya Brooks
An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler
2022:
How we Live is How we Die, Pema ChodronOur History is the Future, Nick Estes
The Seed Keeper, Diane Wilson
Fables and Spells, by adrienne maree brown
Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremecy, edited by carla joy bergman
The Ghandian Iceberg, Chris Moore-Backman
Howard Zinn Speaks, Collected Speeches 1963-2009, Howard Zinn
A Participatory Economy, Robin Hahnel
Enchantments, A Beginner Witch’s Guide, Mya Spalter
The Modern Crisis, Murray Bookchin
Begin the World Over, Kung Li Sun
Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Y. Davis
Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
A Profession Without Reason, The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment, Bruce E. Levine
The Art of Community, Charles H. Vogl
Call Us What We Carry, Amanda Gorman
The Next American Revolution, Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century, Grace Lee Boggs
Overcoming Capitalism, Tom Wetzel
The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon
After the Revolution, Robert Evans
Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong
Home Body, Rupi Kaur
Lessons in Liberation, AK Press
Plants have so much to offer us, all we have to do is ask. Mary Siisip Geniusz
The Weight of the Stars, Augustin Comotto (DNF)
A Country of Ghosts, Margaret Killjoy
Tarot for Change, Jessica Dore
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Johnson & Katharine Wilkinson
2021:
The Grievers, adrienne maree brownPollution is Colonialism, Max Liboiron (still reading)
Wintering, Katherine May (DNF)
How We Show Up, Mia Birdsong
Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Yet-to-be-named Network Action Guide (from DA course)
Decolonising the Mind, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Abolishing the Police Koshka Duff (AK Press)
Undrowned, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, Erik Olin Wright
Holding Change, adrienne maree brown
Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King Jr.
Spiritual Ecology (collected essays)
We Will Not Cancel Us, adrienne maree brown
Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler
Cassandra Speaks, Elizabeth Lesser
2020:
On Tyranny, Timothy SnyderThe Apology: V
How to do Nothing, Jenny Odell
Voices in the Air, NYE
The Carrying, Ada Limón
A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
Mutual Aid, Dean Spade
How to Be an Anti-racist, Ibram X. Kendi
On Death & Dying, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
On Living, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Familiars, Holly Wren Spaulding
The Tradition, Jericho Brown
Averno, Gluck
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron
A Room of One’s Own (DNF)
Bowling Alone, (DNF)
Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown
The Hologram, Cassie Thornton
Are.na Annual (On Care)
You Were Born for This, Chani Nicholas
Braiding the Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Candace Hope is a documentary photographer and creative producer living on the border of Southern VT & Western Massachusetts, on unceded territory of the Abenaki people (link to Native Land Map where you can learn whose land you are on).
She studied photography at Phoenix College and The International Center for Photography. Her work has been published by The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Take Magazine, The Valley Advocate, and Imbibe Magazine, and has been exhibited at the Sharon Arts Center, the Vermont Center for Photography, and the Northampton Center for the Arts. She is a recipient of the Western Mass Creative awards for her work with SHOFCO, a humanitarian non-profit based in Nairobi, Kenya. A recent personal project, Ending the Silence: #metoo, was awarded a visual arts grant from the Northampton Arts Council and was exhibited at the Northampton Center for the Arts in October 2019.
In addition to her work as a photographer, Candace has extensive experience leading teams of designers, developers, illustrators, animators, copywriters and brand strategists to achieve award-winning outcomes on complex creative projects. She has managed teams working on websites, ad campaigns, capital campaigns, product packaging, brand identity, animation, and more.
Candace teaches digital media for the Vermont Governor’s Institute of the Arts each summer, and serves on the steering committee for Art Tech Nature Culture. She also serves on the Public Safety Advisory Committee in the town where she lives, and periodically volunteers on the development committee for the Vermont Center for Photography.
Awards
2019 Northampton Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant for Ending the Silence
2019 Western MA Creative Awards, Best of Show (Concept Development)
2019 Western MA Creative Awards, Gold x3 (Producer)
2019 Western MA Creative Awards, Judge’s Choice x3 (Producer)
2015 Western MA Creative Awards, Best of Show, SHOFCO (Photographer)
2015 Western MA Creative Awards, Gold Award, SHOFCO (Photographer)
Exhibitions
2023 Geissler Gallery at Stoneleigh-Burnham, Greenfield, MA, Solo Exhibition
2019 @33 Hawley, Portraits of Pathlight, Group Show
2019 Northampton Center for the Arts, Ending the Silence: #metoo, Solo Exhibition
2016 Vermont Center for Photography, Group Show, Juried Exhibition
2016 Sharon Arts Center, Group Show, Contemporary Works In, On, and Around Music
Publications
2016 Take Magazine
2016 Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
2015 The Valley Advocate
2015 Fast Company
2014 The Huffington Post
Better yet, check out what inspires me.
She studied photography at Phoenix College and The International Center for Photography. Her work has been published by The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Take Magazine, The Valley Advocate, and Imbibe Magazine, and has been exhibited at the Sharon Arts Center, the Vermont Center for Photography, and the Northampton Center for the Arts. She is a recipient of the Western Mass Creative awards for her work with SHOFCO, a humanitarian non-profit based in Nairobi, Kenya. A recent personal project, Ending the Silence: #metoo, was awarded a visual arts grant from the Northampton Arts Council and was exhibited at the Northampton Center for the Arts in October 2019.
In addition to her work as a photographer, Candace has extensive experience leading teams of designers, developers, illustrators, animators, copywriters and brand strategists to achieve award-winning outcomes on complex creative projects. She has managed teams working on websites, ad campaigns, capital campaigns, product packaging, brand identity, animation, and more.
Candace teaches digital media for the Vermont Governor’s Institute of the Arts each summer, and serves on the steering committee for Art Tech Nature Culture. She also serves on the Public Safety Advisory Committee in the town where she lives, and periodically volunteers on the development committee for the Vermont Center for Photography.
Drop a line if you’d like to collaborate on a project.
Awards
2019 Northampton Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant for Ending the Silence
2019 Western MA Creative Awards, Best of Show (Concept Development)
2019 Western MA Creative Awards, Gold x3 (Producer)
2019 Western MA Creative Awards, Judge’s Choice x3 (Producer)
2015 Western MA Creative Awards, Best of Show, SHOFCO (Photographer)
2015 Western MA Creative Awards, Gold Award, SHOFCO (Photographer)
Exhibitions
2023 Geissler Gallery at Stoneleigh-Burnham, Greenfield, MA, Solo Exhibition
2019 @33 Hawley, Portraits of Pathlight, Group Show
2019 Northampton Center for the Arts, Ending the Silence: #metoo, Solo Exhibition
2016 Vermont Center for Photography, Group Show, Juried Exhibition
2016 Sharon Arts Center, Group Show, Contemporary Works In, On, and Around Music
Publications
2016 Take Magazine
2016 Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
2015 The Valley Advocate
2015 Fast Company
2014 The Huffington Post
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Better yet, check out what inspires me.