Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
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As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Mutual Aid
Peter Kropotkin
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Radical Antiquity
Christopher B. Zeichmann
#3 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Immortal Choir That Holds Every Voice
Danielle Cain
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Normal Life
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Raquel Lucas Platero Mendéz
Dean Spade
María Enguix Tercero
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Black Arms to Hold You Up
Ben Passmore
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The State Against the Jews
Laurent Joly
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Occult Features of Anarchism
With Attention to the Conspiracy of Kings and the Conspiracy of the Peoples
Erica Lagalisse
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Life of St. Maximilian Kolbe
William LaMay
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Less than nothing
Slavoj Žižek
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Love in a F*cked-Up World
Dean Spade
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Direct Action
An Ethnography
David Graeber
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Black Reconstruction in America
An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880
Mack H. Jones
W.E.B. Du Bois
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Souls of Black Folk
Héctor Arnau
Patricia H. Hinchey
Eugene F. Provenzo
Slingshot Books
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Brent Hayes Edwards
Monty
Karl Simrock
Monica M. Elbert
Arnold Rampersad
Shawn Alexander
Prentice Onayemi
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Walter Covell
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Beauty and the Beast
Jan Brett
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Demon Song
Kelsia Yu
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Opacities on Writing and the Writing Life
A Meditation on Writing, Publishing, and Friendship
Sophia Samatar
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The wonder book
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
