https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs en-us 2023-01-12 05:33:54 UTC 2023-01-17 22:22:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f33f.png freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441809452 2023-01-12 05:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441809452 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441812117 2023-01-12 05:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441812117 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441813218 2023-01-12 05:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441813218 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441814335 2023-01-12 05:44:03 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441814335 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441815374 2023-01-12 05:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441815374 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441818593 2023-01-12 05:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441818593 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441821560 2023-01-12 05:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441821560 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441821934 2023-01-12 05:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441821934 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441823683 2023-01-12 05:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441823683 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441824559 2023-01-12 05:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441824559 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441826304 2023-01-12 06:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441826304 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441828206 2023-01-12 06:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441828206 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441828733 (Graphic Novel) 
"Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...?"]]> 2023-01-12 06:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441828733 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441829921 (Nonfiction)
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. "]]> 2023-01-12 06:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441829921 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441832245 (Poetry)
"Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things"]]> 2023-01-12 06:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441832245 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441833209 (Graphic Novel, Memoir)
"Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere."]]> 2023-01-12 06:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441833209 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441836324 (Short Stories, Memoir)
"The powerful first-person narratives of this collection show us a world where gender exists along a spectrum, a web, a multidimensional space. Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals of gender diversity, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships."]]> 2023-01-12 06:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441836324 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441837603 (Short Essays, Nonfiction)
"...a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed view of the complexities, even the terrors, in his life, including living in America as a black man; the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture; the loss of those he loves."]]> 2023-01-12 06:17:11 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441837603 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441841692 (Nonfiction)
Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. ]]> 2023-01-12 06:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441841692 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441849739 (Memoir)
"A self-described “amateur” at masculinity, McBee embarks on a wide-ranging exploration of gender in society, examining sexism, toxic masculinity, and privilege. As he questions the limitations of gender roles and the roots of masculine aggression, he finds intimacy, hope, and even love in the experience of boxing and in his role as a man in the world."]]> 2023-01-12 06:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441849739 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441852809 (Poetry, Spoken Word)
"You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection. The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between."]]> 2023-01-12 06:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441852809 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441861599 (Movie)
"A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life."]]> 2023-01-12 06:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441861599 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441863380 (TV)
"Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series."]]> 2023-01-12 06:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441863380 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441865348 (TV)
"Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, which sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence."]]> 2023-01-12 06:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441865348 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441865990 (TV)
"American college football coach Ted Lasso heads to London to manage AFC Richmond, a struggling English Premier League football team."]]> 2023-01-12 06:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441865990 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441870474 (TV) 
"On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony."]]> 2023-01-12 07:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441870474 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441871422 (Movie)
"A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election."]]> 2023-01-12 07:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441871422 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441872551 (Movie)
"Tending the Wild" shines light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life."]]> 2023-01-12 07:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441872551 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441874123 (Podcast)
"In this episode, Prentis sits down with podcast host, doula, pleasure-activist, and writer, adrienne maree brown (she/her), to discuss the moment in which we find ourselves, the futures that we can make possible, and the gift of satisfaction. Take a listen as these two friends look both inward and outward at the potential for a more just reality."]]> 2023-01-12 07:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441874123 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441875282 (Podcast)
"Krista interviewed the wise and wonderful Ocean Vuong right on the cusp of that turning, in March 2020, in a joyful and crowded room full of podcasters in Brooklyn. Yet what’s most stunning is how presciently and exquisitely Ocean spoke, and continues to speak, to the world we have since come to inhabit — its heartbreak and its poetry, its possibilities for loss and for finding new life."]]> 2023-01-12 07:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2441875282 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446307134 (Fiction, Dystopian) 
"In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.

Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. "]]> 2023-01-17 04:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446307134 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446308009 (Nonfiction, Memoir)
"A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free."]]> 2023-01-17 04:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446308009 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446370344 (Nonfiction) 
"Essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.

There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration."]]> 2023-01-17 05:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446370344 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446374920 (Nonfiction)
"A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people's spiritual and scientific connection to the land, waters, and climate, curated by the acclaimed author of Farming While Black."]]> 2023-01-17 05:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446374920 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446376440 (Podcast)
"Climate change. We know. It can feel too overwhelming. But what if there was a show about climate change that left you feeling... energized? One so filled with possibility that you actually wanted to listen? Join us, journalist Alex Blumberg and a crew of climate nerds, as we bring you smart, inspiring stories about the mess we're in and how we can get ourselves out of it."]]> 2023-01-17 06:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446376440 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446379882 (Podcast)
"An extraordinary conversation with the late congressman John Lewis, taped in Montgomery, Alabama, during a pilgrimage 50 years after the March on Washington. It offers a special look inside his wisdom, the civil rights leaders’ spiritual confrontation within themselves, and the intricate art of nonviolence as “love in action.”"]]> 2023-01-17 06:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446379882 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446380761 (Podcast)
"Acclaimed writer, performer, and public speaker ALOK joins Prentis for our first guest episode of season 3. ALOK and Prentis connect on their mutual Texan roots, the power of practicing self-forgiveness and compassion, and how friendship is the answer to most of the existential questions in the world."]]> 2023-01-17 06:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446380761 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446381283 (Spoken Word Poem)]]> 2023-01-17 06:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446381283 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446383551 (Spoken Word Poetry)]]> 2023-01-17 06:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446383551 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446389441 (Nonfiction)
"With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable."]]> 2023-01-17 06:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446389441 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446390166 (Nonfiction)
"From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest."]]> 2023-01-17 06:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446390166 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446391760 (Fiction, Fantasy)
"A whirlwind romance between an eccentric [trans, vampire] archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel."]]> 2023-01-17 06:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446391760 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446392737 (Movie)
"Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?"]]> 2023-01-17 06:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446392737 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446394676 (Movie)
"On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman."]]> 2023-01-17 06:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446394676 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446396310 (Movie)
"The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it."]]> 2023-01-17 06:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446396310 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446397911 (Documentary) 
"A documentary of the successful career and assassination of San Francisco's first elected gay city supervisor."]]> 2023-01-17 06:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446397911 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446398767 (Documentary)
"Follows celebrated competitive skating icon Leo Baker as they try to make space for themselves in the gendered world of pro sports and build a more inclusive skate culture, which leads them to doing the punkest thing imaginable."]]> 2023-01-17 06:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446398767 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446401760 "Molly is a white non-binary queer illustrator, food grower, honey bee tender and a seeker of mysticism. Through their creative work they explore themes of interconnectedness, cosmology, reciprocity, biomimicry and are interested in cultivating our radical imaginations to help us shape our emergent new world."]]> 2023-01-17 06:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446401760 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446403931 "FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and social justice activist based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom"]]> 2023-01-17 06:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446403931 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446406133 2023-01-17 06:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446406133 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446407087 "My name's Alex, I'm the human behind Sweet Cowboy Blues. I'm an artist, screen printer and small business owner. My wife and I are both illus"]]> 2023-01-17 06:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446407087 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446411871 https://www.instagram.com/p/CiIGwLAhUUV/?hl=en]]> 2023-01-17 06:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2446411871 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2447563036 Book store in San Francisco! Large selection of LGBTQIA + books.]]> 2023-01-17 22:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2447563036 freas1 https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2447563505 Queer community cafe in San Francisco]]> 2023-01-17 22:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/freas1/AugustRecs/wish/2447563505