Essence McDowell

Join authors Essence McDowell and Mariame Kaba for the launch of Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping a History of Trailblazing Black Women in Chicago, an essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago’s South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present. Lifting As They Climbed showcases seventy-eight women—activists, artists, musicians, and more—through sites and landmarks on Chicago’s South and West Sides.

Let This Radicalize You Workbook Paperback, 106 pages ISBN: 9798888900734 $12.00 $7.20 40% off This workbook is intended as an extension of our book Let This Radicalize You. It was created to feature resources that we couldn't fit in the book, including other helpful books, essays, wisdom from veteran organizers, and more. Educator and activist Ursula Wolfe-Rocca drafted the "Souped-Up Study Guide," which is the core of this workbook. The other components are included as a supplement to the guide.

"[Let This Radicalize You] is both a how-to guide for community activists and a deeply-felt assessment of how we can better support one another to sustain lifelong involvement in progressive efforts.... [The Book] is a well-wrought antidote to the pervasive despair of living in Trumpian times.... Kaba is known for reminding those in her orbit to see crises as opportunities for radical action rather than hopelessness.