Bibliography
Books used for the Poetics of the Unknown meetings or for other studies. All the books here have been great teachers.
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Schizophrenics Can Be Good Mothers Too
Sanchita Islam
An artist suffering from schizophrenia exploring art to consolidate the bond to her children.
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Mother Earth, Mother Africa
By Sophia Chirongoma, 2022
This book explores the interface of religio-cultural traditions and ecological conservation practices in different African contexts. The authors also reflect on the entwinement between the violation of women’s rights and the degradation of the Earth.
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Down Girl
Kate Manne
Defining misogyny through the notion of a world made of human Beings (men) and human Givers (women).
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The Qur’an, a new translation
Transl. Abdel Haleem, 2008
An English translation with a good introduction and some context to better understand each surah. To build an opinion on the Qur’an, multiple translations are advised.
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Remembrance: A Husserlian Phenomenology of Sufi Practice
Marc Applebaum
Article exploring concepts from Sufi Practice with Phenomenology’s vocabulary.
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The Art of Receiving and Giving
By Betty Martin, 2021
A life-changing book on the beauty of connecting to each other with skill to respect each other’s limits and desires. It is one of those books that keep giving long after we read it.
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The Principles of Sufism
By A’ishah al-Ba’uniyyah, 1450
A 15th century guide on the Sufi spiritual path. It felt nice to realise that if the words we use are different, the feelings and ideas towards inner peace are the same.
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
A very dense and powerful book on the importance of feelings, bringing the erotic back into our lives, and other deeply subversive topics.
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Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood
By Adriana Cavarero, 2000
There are many ways to consider ontology. But rarely have I seen such a beautiful way to consider what constitutes us in the deepest sense.
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Staying With the Trouble
Donna Haraway
Book for an upcoming meetup. In the midst of spiralling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualise it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it […]
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Whipping Girl
By Julia Serano, 2016
This book explores how femininity has been used as a scapegoat throughout history to enforce power dynamics and sexism.
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Awakening Shakti
Sally Kempton
A beautiful book on Shaktism and the tantric goddesses called the Mahavidyas.
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