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Clementine Morrigan is a controversial figure, a powerhouse, a writer, and a socialist. She’s been making zines since the year 2000 and is the author of several books. She’s one half of the Fucking Cancelled podcast.
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Books, articles, writers, and thinkers who have influenced my work and my life

Clementine Morrigan
Sep 14, 2023
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This is an incomplete and ever-growing, cross discipline, cross genre, cross topic bibliography of pieces of work that have influenced me over the years. I have loosely organized it by topic and form to make browsing it easier. I will keep adding to it so check back if you’re curious.

People often ask me for a list of my influences, particularly for my stance that no one is disposable and everyone deserves compassion. The truth is that my stubborn compassion grows out of my lived experience, my socialist politics, my knowledge of trauma, my love of addicts, my lifetime of reading fiction, my animist spirituality, and my solidarity with nonhuman animals, to name only a few sources. None of the works listed here gave me my politics or my principles; all of them played some role.

I like to move through levels, zooming in and zooming out to produce a holistic way of thinking and being. That means that my politics are as interested in the personal and the interpersonal as they are the economic and the global.

It should go without saying but my listing these works does not mean a total endorsement or agreement with the ideas therein. These works moved me. They changed me somehow. Some of them match my current thinking quite well. Others are things that I have moved on from but that still played a generative role in the development of my ideas. Still others compel me without my being in total agreement with them. And so on.

I want to encourage people to read and think widely and deeply. Don’t limit yourself to any particular genre, style, form, or framework. You don’t need a formal education. You don’t need permission. You don’t need to wait for some other time. Let your mind wander and hone your own capacity for critical thinking, connection making, discernment, and integrity. Make your own list of beloved thinkers.

I’m not here to tell you what to think. Neither are these thinkers. These ideas are just here for your consideration. Maybe you can make something entirely new with them.

I have done my best to link to places where you can access or buy the work that is not Amazon. If at all possible, I recommend taking the time to find places to buy that aren’t Amazon. Amazon has atrocious labour practices and is actively working to put independent bookstores out of business. If you are looking for audiobooks, Libro.fm is a non-Amazon option that supports small bookstores. If you want to track what you’re reading, StoryGraph is an alternative to the Amazon-owned Goodreads.

Trauma, Addiction, Healing, Recovery

Articles

Dissociation: An Insufficiently Recognized Major Feature of Complex PTSD by Onno van der Hart, Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele

Books

The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors by Lance Dodes

Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction by Lance Dodes

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

The Big Book, The Basic Text of Alcoholics Anonymous

The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Relationships, Attachment, Sexuality

Books

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships by Diane Poole Heller

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

Compersion: Meditations on Using Jealousy As a Path to Unconditional Love by Deborah Anapol

All About Love by bell hooks

Videos

Anxious Obsessing Makes You Unavailable (Insecure Attachment) by Alan Robarge

Socialism, Anti-Capitalism, The Left

Magazines, Journals

Nonsite.org is an online, open access, peer-reviewed quarterly journal of scholarship in the arts and humanities.

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

Catalyst is a peer-reviewed journal with the focus to develop a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target — both in the North and in the Global South.

The Breach is an independent media outlet producing critical journalism to help map a just, viable future.

Books

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right by Michael Brooks

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons by Silvia Federici

Fragments of An Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber

Videos

Understanding Capitalism with Vivek Chibber

Capitalism and the State with Vivek Chibber

Capitalism and Class Struggle with Vivek Chibber

Race, Racism, Anti-Racism

Articles

Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness by Annie Olaloku-Teriba

Afropessimism, or Black Studies as a Class Project by Adolph Reed Jr.

The Trouble with Disparity by Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed Jr.

Unions Are Essential for Eliminating Racism by Meagan Day

Books

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in America by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields

The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives by Adolph Reed Jr.

No Politics but Class Politics by Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter Benn Michaels

After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle by Cedric Johnson

Toward Freedom:The Case Against Race Reductionism by Touré Reed

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri

The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality by Walter Benn Michaels

Videos

Why Liberals Make Everything About Race with Touré Reed

In Conversation: Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields with Adolph Reed Jr.

“Social Justice” Orthodoxy, Cancel Culture

Articles

Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher

Planet of Cops by Freddie deBoer

When Good Political Arguments Go Bad: On “Critique Drift” by Freddie deBoer

Are Social Justice Politics Serious or Not? by Freddie deBoer

The Traumatic Impact of Media Humiliation, Misrepresentation and Victim-Shaming on Narrative Identity and Well-Being by Christine Marie

An open letter: why I'm leaving the cult of wokeness by Africa Brooke

Books

How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by Fredrik (Freddie) deBoer

Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Videos

Canceling by ContraPoints

Log the Fuck Off with Amber Frost, Matt Christman, and Ben Fong

Podcasts

Out of the Woods: Shame, punishment & social justice culture with Kira Rosen

Creativity, Focus, Personal Growth

The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown

Spirituality, Philosophy

Articles

Human Vulnerability and the Experience of Being Prey by Val Plumwood

Books

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy and Why They Matter by Marc Bekoff

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women by Sylvia Brinton Perera

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything by Barbara Ehrenreich

Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With the Universe by Yumi Sakugawa

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle by Carl Jung

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Podcasts

Red Enlightenment by Graham Jones

Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry

The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch

Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

A Girl’s Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution edited by Tristan Taormino and Karen Green

A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska

Nothing Will Be Different: A Memoir by Tara McGowan-Ross

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home by Amber L. Hollibaugh

Doris Book: an anthology 1991-2001 by Cindy Crabb

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir by Amber Dawn

Shame is An Ocean I Swim Across by Mary Lambert

Sugarblood by Liz Bowen

Bluets by Maggie Nelson

A Long Sound by Joan Larkin

Witchbody by Sabrina Scott

Fiction

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Piranesi by Susanna Clark

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

Clay’s Ark by Octavia Butler

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula Le Guin

The Three Body Problem Trilogy by Liu Cixin

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue

Films

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Tomorrow Ever After

Pride

Coherence

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Sep 14Liked by Clementine Morrigan

Omg Coherence is so underrated (/not rated at all lol)! Literally was shook after seeing that film.

Thank you for this great list.

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