The Pages for Changes reading lists offer personalised and curated reading recommendations from key creatives, authors and thinkers.
Writer and caseworker Leah Cowan curates a reading list of texts and resources about radical queer futures and the power of collective worldbuilding.
I’m a writer and caseworker who works with families facing border violence and homelessness. My thinking is rooted in a political tradition that is Black, radical and abolitionist – which means committing to dismantling harmful structures and building communities of care. I spend my time writing shirty emails to social workers alongside trying to write about how we might keep each other alive in the face of grinding racial capitalism. In between this I also make cocktails, swim in the sea whenever possible, and jab erratically at the bushes in my garden with a pair of secateurs (‘gardening’).
I chose to avoid recommending anything that just tells us what’s wrong with the world. Instead, my list focuses on the way in which we can work together and get to know each other
When creating this list, I was mindful that the 21st Century so far has felt like a scrappy battle of facts and ideas. So I chose to avoid recommending anything that just tells us what’s wrong with the world. Instead, my list focuses on the way in which we can work together and get to know each other – this is how we’re most likely to shape and change the way we live for the better.
