Books to Help Expand Your Thinking

page through these diverse suggestions from Dotters Books

V1 Staff, photos by Andrea Paulseth

Dotters Books, XXX S. Barstow St., Eau Claire.
Dotters Books, 307 S. Barstow St., Eau Claire.

We asked the staff of Dotters Books, Eau Claire’s independent bookshop, to recommend some titles that can help readers learn more about topics pertaining to diversity. Here are their picks.

Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B. Curtice

Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice asserts how “resistance” is a calling for all human beings. Curtice dives into the four “realms of resistance”: personal, communal, ancestral, and the integral, and how they are necessary for liberation.

Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwenola Ricordeau

If you are interested in learning more about a feminist’s view of prison abolition, this book should be next on your list. Activist and scholar, Ricordeau also dives into the criminal justice system and how it affects the lives of women across the country.

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

Kimmerer uses her experience as a part of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and as a botanist to argue how the Earth’s living beings offer humans gifts and lessons past simple sustenance. As an indigenous scientist, Kimmerer hopes to reconnect humans with the languages of Earth.