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Books, games, and the stuff that goes with them — curated by the Rainbow Crow community and the team behind it. At the top of this page are our main picks this week. Find the full curated catalog below. Scroll down, browse around, find something you like, then come talk about it with us!

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A Song of Ice and Fire Campaign Guide

RPGs

David Chart · Green Ronin

Deeper setting material for running full campaigns in the Song of Ice and Fire world.

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A Song of Ice and Fire Chronicle Starter

RPGs

Mark Simmons · Green Ronin

A starter sourcebook for running political, low-magic intrigue in Westeros.

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Against the Double Blackmail

Against the Double Blackmail

Books

Slavoj Žižek

Refugees, terror, and the false choices Europe was offered in responding to both.

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Becoming Abolitionists

Becoming Abolitionists

Books

Derecka Purnell

A civil rights lawyer’s personal and political journey from believing in police reform to organizing for abolition.

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Emergent Strategy

Emergent Strategy

Books

adrienne maree brown · AK Press

Shaping change, changing worlds. Movement strategy learned from octopi, mycelium, and Octavia Butler.

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Books

Matthew Desmond

A Pulitzer-winning ethnography following eight Milwaukee families through eviction — how housing precarity drives poverty, not the other way around.

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How the Irish Became White

How the Irish Became White

Books

Noel Ignatiev

A history of how Irish immigrants were assimilated into American whiteness — and what they gave up and gained doing it.

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Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Like A Thief In Broad Daylight

Books

Slavoj Žižek

On power, automation, and freedom in an era when both capital and revolution have gotten stranger.

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Orientalism

Orientalism

Books

Edward W. Said

The foundational critique of how the West constructed ’the East’ as an object of study and domination.

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Poverty Scholarship

Poverty Scholarship

Books

Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia

Poor-people-led theory, art, and testimony on homelessness and survival, written from lived experience rather than about it.

non-fictionpoliticsmemoir
Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

Books

Matthew Desmond

An argument that American poverty persists because others of us benefit from it — and what would change if we stopped.

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Root: The Roleplaying Game

Root: The Roleplaying Game

RPGs

Magpie Games

The world of the Root board game, expanded into a full campaign of woodland factions and found family.

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The Complete Persepolis

The Complete Persepolis

Graphic Novels

Marjane Satrapi

A girl’s coming-of-age during and after the Iranian Revolution, told in stark, unforgettable black and white.

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The Jakarta Method

The Jakarta Method

Books

Vincent Bevins

How a U.S.-backed anticommunist purge in Indonesia became a template exported across the Cold War world.

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The Trinity of Fundamentals

The Trinity of Fundamentals

Books

Wisam Rafeedie

A political memoir written from inside a Palestinian resistance movement.

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V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

Graphic Novels

Alan Moore

A masked anarchist wages a one-man war against a fascist future Britain. A cornerstone of political comics.

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Vampire: The Masquerade (5th Edition)

Vampire: The Masquerade (5th Edition)

RPGs

Renegade Game Studios / Paradox

Personal horror and vampire politics in the modern nights. A World of Darkness cornerstone.

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We Do This ’til We Free Us

We Do This ’til We Free Us

Books

Mariame Kaba

Essays and interviews on abolition, transformative justice, and organizing for a world without prisons and police.

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