Resources
Reading lists and text sets for the work of building community capacity for digital autonomy.
These lists are living documents. They draw on the research, speakers, and conversations from our lecture series and Signpost Sessions cohorts. We prioritize authors and researchers whose work is grounded in community, not extractive.
Digital Autonomy & Privacy
Texts for understanding surveillance, data, and reclaiming control of your digital life.
How search engines reinforce racism — essential for any digital literacy curriculum.
The New Jim Code: how tech encodes and amplifies existing inequities.
The definitive account of how tech platforms extract and profit from human behavior.
A framework for thinking critically about data collection, power, and representation.
How opaque algorithms harm communities — readable and practical.
On the limits of 'privacy as control' frameworks.
Literacy, Equity & Justice
Foundational and contemporary texts connecting literacy to liberation.
Historically responsive literacy pedagogy grounded in Black intellectual tradition.
Extends Cultivating Genius with joy-centered, historically responsive pedagogy.
The foundation — literacy as a practice of freedom, not a neutral technical skill.
A curriculum project centering Black and Latinx youth as authors and intellectuals. See marcellehaddix.com.
A movement to challenge the traditional literary canon for equity and inclusion. disrupttexts.org
Culturally relevant books and teaching practices for middle and high school.
Digital & Media Literacies
Research and practice on navigating networked media, misinformation, and online civic life.
A framework for analyzing propaganda and media influence — with classroom applications.
Comprehensive introduction from one of the field's leading researchers.
How interest-powered, peer-supported, academically oriented learning happens in digital spaces.
Three generations of media scholars in conversation about participation, power, and youth.
Social lives of networked teens — corrects a lot of moral panic about young people online.
Technology, change, and assessment in 21st century classrooms — grounded in classroom practice.
Community Organizing & Cooperative Practice
Models of collective action, mutual aid, and community-controlled institutions.
Organizing principles drawn from natural systems — essential for decentralized networks.
Making justice work feel good and sustainable, not just necessary.
How to build survival programs while avoiding nonprofit capture — short and practical.
Deliberately developmental organizations — grows people, not just outputs.
The nonprofit industrial complex critique — essential context for 501(c)(3) work.
Foundational text. Still essential. Not a quick read.
Young Adult & Children's Literature for Justice
Texts that build mirrors, windows, and doors — centering marginalized voices.
Police violence, community, and speaking up — one of the most taught YA novels of the decade.
Antiracist history for young readers — also useful for adults.
Graphic memoir about family, addiction, and finding yourself — representation for marginalized experiences.
Immigration, identity, and belonging — an underused text for upper secondary.
Trans identity for middle grade — still challenged, still necessary.
Gun violence in verse — demonstrates what form can do that prose cannot.
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