MoonyReadsByStarlight | 2024 Nonfiction Reads || Making a Study Plan/DIY Classes [CC] @moonyreadsbystarlight | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I am Bek (they/them) and here are some plans I have regarding independent learning and nonfiction reading. Very unscripted, but I'm really excited about getting back into more intentional learning. Lots of reading, but I'll also be watching lectures and writing.

Mentioned:
MIT Open-source Classes: https://ocw.mit.edu/
MIT Open-source Classes Youtube (which I explored more after filming this. Not every class, but a TON. Some of the linguistics lectures were a neat way to start off my year!): youtube.com/@mitocw
Black Matters Class: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/24-912-black-matters-introduction-to-black-studies-spring-2017/
Memory, Culture, and Forgetting Class: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/21a-104-memory-culture-forgetting-spring-2016/

Time Stamps:
01:54 My Background
03:07 Putting these classes together
06:02 Why classes but not for school?
07:15 Classes
07:33 Black Studies Class
13:32 Memory Studies Class
18:27 Queer Global Studies Class

Books Mentioned:
- Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois
- Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Dandicat
- The Black Jacobins by CLR James
- Tales of Neveryon by Samuel R Delany
- Literacy: Reading the Word and the World by Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo
- The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G Woodson
- Of Solids and Surds by Samuel R Delany
- Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness edited by David Austin
- The Common Wind: Afro-American Current in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S Scott
- Rasta and Resistance from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney by Horace Campbell
- Model-Minority Imperialism by Victor Bascara
- Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism by Frank Chapman
- Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory by Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito
- On Collective Memory by Maurice Halbwachs
- How Societies Remember by Paul Connerton
- Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil
- Tangled Memory: The Vietnam War, The AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering by Marita Sturken
- After Silence: A History of AIDS through Its Images by Avram Finkelstein
- Colonialism/Postcolonialism by Ania Loomba
- Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the afterlife of Colonialism edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malave and Martin F Manalansan IV
- Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology edited by E Patrick Johnson and Mae G Henderson
- As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality edited by Anna Livia and Kira Hall
- Speaking in Queer Tongues: Globalization and Gay Language edited by William Leap and Tom Boellstorff
- The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
- Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
- Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left by Emily Hobson
- Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw
- Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
- Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D Smithers

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