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THIRTY BOOKS: 
THE F213 PROTEST LITERATURE LIBRARY
 
A NCWCA Members Interactive Installation 
Curated by Tanya Augsburg

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“I now keep my collection of books to about thirty volumes at any one time.”
—Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Thirty Books: The F213 Protest Literature Library is an exploration of the links between feminism, activism, protest, and human rights. NCWCA members created this installation of books in honor of NCWCA’s 2019 national exhibition, F213. This NCWCA member installation celebrates the value of books in our lives. It pokes fun at the recent media brouhaha over a social media meme insinuating that Marie Kondo, a bestselling author, suggested that we should keep no more than 30 books in our personal libraries. The truth of the matter is that Kondo was only talking about herself. The controversy called attention to all the space inhabited by actual books (as opposed to e-books). As material three-dimensional objects, books take up limited physical space. For those who are not bibliophiles, their presence can seem invasive. Nevertheless, books contain intangible ideas, which, when revolutionary, disrupt the status quo and transcend existing limitations. By exhibiting books, we call attention to their infinite possibilities.

Limiting the installation to thirty books was quite the challenge. Several of the texts were selected for their historical importance. A few were chosen for their special relevance to the exhibition. Since F213 addresses current feminist concerns, we ultimately prioritized recently written, socially relevant works authored by important writers and editors.

Are there any books that you think should have been included as part of our thirty-book installation of protest literature? Please let us know by writing your suggestions in the provided blank book in the F213 Protest Literature Library at Arc Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco. We will compile a list based on what visitors write in what will become a collectively authored artist book. We will post the list online after F213 ends.

THIRTY BOOKS

  1. Abrams, Stacey, Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Change Real 
  2. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, We Should All Be Feminists 
  3. Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid’s Tale 
  4. Berlant, Lauren, Cruel Optimism 
  5. Bradbury, Ray, Fahrenheit 451
  6. Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring 
  7. Chacón, Justin Akers and Davis, Mike, No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border 
  8. Clinton, Hillary, What Happened 
  9. Cooper, Brittney, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower 
  10. D’Souza, Aruna, Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts 
  11. Elliot, Marguerite and Maria Karras, The Woman's Building & Feminist Art Education 1973 -1991 
  12. Frankfurt, Harry G., On Bullshit 
  13. Gay, Roxane, ed., Not That Bad 
  14. hooks, bell, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics 
  15. Jasper, James M., The Emotions of Protest 
  16. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation 
  17. Levy, Debbie, I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark 
  18. Manson, Mark, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck 
  19. Mukhopadhyay, Samhita, and Harding, Kate, eds. Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America 
  20. Reed, T.V. The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, 2nd Ed.
  21. Reilly, Maura, Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating 
  22. Rogger, Basil et al, eds., Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance 
  23. Serano, Julia, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
  24. Sinclair, Upton, ed., A Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest 
  25. Solomon, Akiba and Rankin, Kenrya, eds., How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance 
  26. Soyora, Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger 
  27. Re/Search #13 (Andrea Juno & V. Vale, eds.), Angry Women 
  28. Re/Search #12 (Andrea Juno & V. Vale, eds.), Modern Primitives 
  29. Traister, Rebecca, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger 
  30. Wong, Nellie, ed. Talking Back: Voices of Color
CONTRIBUTING NCWCA ARTISTS
Elizabeth Addison
Tanya Augsburg
Gretchen Blais
Theresa Bricker
Marguerite Elliott
Linda Kattwinkel
Karen Gutfreund
CJ Grossman
Marc Ellen Hamel
Josefin Jansson
Judy Johnson-Williams
Erika Gomez Henao
Priscilla Otani
Lainey Sainte Marie
Judith Schonebaum
Colette Standish
Samanta Tello
Olga Tsoudis
Michelle Waters
Tanya Wilkinson
Diane Williams
Nellie Wong

NCWCA ARTISTS PARTICIPATING IN THE F213 LIBRARY

CJ Grossman, Me Too/Her Too - Hung Out to Dry
Trudi C. Hauptman, GAMERGATE - THE BOOK
Julie Mevi, My Pussy, My Rules
Tanya Wilkinson, Regulating Women: The Prayer Book of Vice President Pence

F213 WRITERS BOOK DISPLAY
Lauren Araiza, To March for Others
Lorraine Bonner, Trust Is Your Birthright
Sandra Cisneros, Puro Amor
Thaisa Frank, Heidegger's Glasses
Rebecca Morgan Frank, The Spokes of Venus
Yetta Howard, Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground
Susan Kirschbaum, Who Town
Petra Kuppers, Ice Bar
Tyler Mills, Hawk Parable
Janice Mirikitani, Out of the Dust
Jessica Hendry Helson, If Only You People Could Follow Directions
Peggy Phelan, Helena Reckitt, Art and Feminism 
Sheila Pree Bright, #1960 Now
Shannon Rose Riley, Performing Race and Erasure: Cuba, Haiti, and US Culture, 1898-1940
Helene Smith Romer, Meaning From Madness
Emily Sano, Heaven and Hell, Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism
Mira Schor, A Decade of Negative Thinking
Genanne Walsh, Twister
Maw Shin Win, Invisible Gifts: Poems
Nellie Wong, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner