THE REVERIE

Resources: This is an ever-evolving list built by communal effort. The Reverie does not endorse every resource. Our group has read, viewed, and/or listened to most but consider all to be experienced with an open yet critical mind.

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Read: books, interviews, newsletters, substacks, pdf’s and more that range from self-help, spirituality, and radical imagination to health, nutrition, and criticism

Who is Wellness For: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who it Leaves Behind [community and culture]
Good Energy: Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health [health, fitness and dieting]
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [spirituality]
Art on my Mind: visual politics [art & criticism]
Ways of Seeing [art & criticism]
A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol 1. [art & criticism]
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise [poetry and prose]
Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal [art & criticism]
Think and Grow Rich [self-help]
Édouard Glissant: For Opacity [criticism]
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times [self-help, society-help]
Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations [boundless]
The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself [poetry and prose]
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essay [boundless]
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear [self-help]
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement [health, fitness and society-help]
Afrotectopia: Black Metal [boundless]
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde [boundless]
What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World [self-help, society-help]
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to dismantle systems of oppression to protect people + planet [environmentalism]
Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection [self-help, society-help]
The Creative Independent [interviews & newsletter]
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth [environmentalism]
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less [business]
Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human [spirituality, self-help, society-help]
Jupiter Magazine [boundless]
E-Book: Quantum Physics & World-Building Liberated Futures [cosmology, self-help, society-help]
Art Papers: David Hammons [interview]


Watch and Listen: films, clips, podcasts, playlists+ 

The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons [documentary]
The Revolution on Canvas [documentary]
Living Equipment with Ryan C. Clarke [conversation & soundscape series]
Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation [documentary]
A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde [documentary]
L.A. Rebellion: UCLA Film + Television Archive [films & interviews]
Triple Canopy [video + audio documentation]
Shade: Artist stories from concept to community, in the diaspora and beyond [podcast]
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise [playlist]
Pea The Ferry: Cheat Codes [podcast]
The Sound of Noah Davis [podcast]
Triple Canopy [podcast]


Tools: guides, toolkits, courses, and workbooks centering mindfulness, creativity, and co-creating systems

Discipline is Pleasure: How to Create Structure, Habits, and Rituals to Build Your Creative Practice [virtual workshops]
The Curator’s Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces [guide]
The Gap: A roadmap for funders and community organizers [roadmap]
Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection [roadmap]
ebook: Notes on Self Care for Creative Humans [tools]
Pea The Feary: Rich Terrain - creating fertile “soil” for your creative business [virtual workshop]
Soulcare Collective: holistic mental wellness practice for BIPOC folx [virtual workshop & services]



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