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Workers Reading Book Club

@workersreading.bsky.social

LABOR UNION BOOK CLUB💪📚 Discussing nonfiction & fiction books about labor history, unions, & employment! 📖 Chain-Gang All-Stars linktr.ee/workersreading

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

NY prisons are in crisis. Visits canceled, people denied food, meds & heat- ALL due to rogue COs resisting accountability for rampant brutality, sexual violence, & abuse. (1/2)

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

quote dump part 2 from our January 2025 book 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, WR Book Club.

Quote from Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body, which reads “Racial scientific rhetoric about slavery linked fatness to greedy Africans. And religious discourse suggested that overeating was ungodly”

Quote from Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body, which reads “In the United States, fatness became stigmatized as both black and sinful”

Quote from Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body, which reads “This is an aesthetic value system crafted by elites that places qualities symbolizing refinement (and a remove from the vulgar, the common, and the low) atop the aesthetic heirarchy.”

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

quote dump part 1 from our January 2025 book 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, WR Book Club.

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

FEB 2025 BOOK PICK Hello literary laborers & happy February! We are so excited to read this for the first time along side yall ☺️📚 📖Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club #wrbc #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler#WorkersReadingBookClub #LaborUnionBookClub

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hello #booksky! Looking for a labor union book club, reading fiction & nonfiction about union history, employment in literature, & related topics? That’s us :)

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Looking toward February 2025... I think it’s time for another fiction book! I’d like to pitch a few, and am open to suggestions for more! Please check out these books below/read some reviews/ let me know what you think! Also feel free to comment others you’d like to read :) (1/?)

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A quote from the Introduction of this month’s book selection! Lots of interesting exploration of cultural standards, and how they are influenced by racism, sexism, religion, wealth, and power. How has your reading been going? (1/2)

Quote from Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings written on an orange background that reads “[…] slenderness served as a marker of moral, racial, and national superiority”

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“Every system of injustice depends on the silence, paralysis, confusion, and cooperation of those it seeks to eliminate or control.” 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club.

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DSA-LA @dsa.la · 09/01/2025

DSA-LA members are constantly updating our resource document with new resources and opportunities to help! If there’s something missing, shoot us a DM!

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

JANUARY 2025🎉 new year, new book club selection! 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club. (1/3)

Screenshot from the Fable app, reading that Workers Reading changed the book for their club from The New Jim Crow to Fearing the Black Body

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