Bitch on Wheels
A 2001 speech by the revolutionary trans icon, Stonewall veteran, and co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, better known as S.T.A.R.; a radical political collective that provided housing and support to houseless queer youth and sex workers in Manhattan.
Reciprocal bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom
A speech delivered in in 1959 by Frantz Fanon, an Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and radical revolutionary. In this piece, Fanon proposes that cultural resistance is an equally necessary component in the fight for liberation as military resistance and that developing a “national culture” is crucial to achieving self-determination and true liberation.
On Language, Race, and the Black Writer
This is a short speech given in January 15, 1979 by James Baldwin, a Black gay writer and activist. It is a concise yet thought-provoking lecture outlining the persistence of oppression after the supposed victory of the civil rights movement.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house
This is a short speech given in 1979 by Audre Lorde, a Black lesbian civil rights activist & poet. And it is also Little Rad Reading Club’s first ever reading material!