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Over my four years within the English department and the interdisciplinary honors program, I've regularly come across readings (plus the occasional film or docuseries) that sink deep into my heart and change the way I think. I've compiled standout titles here -- from fiction books I read for pleasure to theory pieces assigned in class -- for the sake of recording what blew my mind as an undergraduate, and preserving a time capsule of the questions and concepts that animated me.

Ways of Seeing (John Berger)

Making a Murderer (dir. Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos) & Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)

"Uses of the Erotic" (Audre Lorde)

"Story of Your Life" (Ted Chiang)

Gender Trouble (Judith Butler)

"The Whiteness Question" (in Visible Identities, Linda Martin Alcoff)

"mutilating gender" (Dean Spade)

Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler)

Nevada (Imogen Binnie)

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Naomi Klein)

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man (Thomas Page McBee)

A Poetry Handbook (Mary Oliver)

The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)

Meaningful readings: Work
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