Thread by @qualiaisreal

I've been asking my favorite minds for lists of 3 works by women that have influenced them. I gave the question a wide berth for interpretation; some were moved to list novels, others poems, and still others articles, collections, etc relevant to their own expertise. 1/

Many offered their lists with gleeful assurance, others with a caveat that “I love X, but surely everyone else will mention her too.” My guess is these last reactions reflect a sense that only a few women‘s voices have risen to the forefront of the public imagination 2/

generally, let alone their own private mental faculties, so one would predict that the lists are bound to be redundant. But who can say for certain why an individual mind hangs on to the product of another's imagination? Surely not I. 3/

What I can say is that these lists are far from redundant, and filled with material that can satisfy a multitude of mental tastes. 4/

Still others responded with regret that as they started to consider this question, the realization that they'd neglected to include women thinkers in the canon of their personal makeup creeped into the horizon of their own personal understanding. 5/

And then there are those who could not would not contain their lists of influence to 3, their overflowing spheres of influence are included here unabridged. 6/

The first round of answers to this collection are listed below in no particular order, starting with me.

Would you be willing to share a list of 3 works by women that have influenced you?
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The anthology will be printed as part of the art series “Daddy Don’t Go! Exploring this Crumbling Patriarchy”

Check out the show in person if you happen to find yourself in the SF Bay Area this summer!

FIN

➢ “Cassandra Among the Creeps” - Rebecca Solnit
➢ Down Girl: the Logic of Misogyny - Kate Manne
➢ Gravity & Grace - Simone Weil

– Alison Niedbalski (philosopher, filmmaker, musician)

➢ The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharris
➢ Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
➢ Black Looks: Race and Representation - bell hooks

– Boots Riley (activist, musician, filmmaker) @BootsRiley

➢ “The Husband Stitch” - Carmen Maria Machado
➢ “Girl 6”, Thick - Tressie McMillan Cottom
➢ “The Idea of Perfection” - Iris Murdoch

– Kate Manne (philosopher) @kate_manne

➢ Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/Brain - Patricia S. Churchland
➢ Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories - Ruth Millikan
➢ Consciousness in Action - Susan Hurley

– David Chalmers (philosopher)
*the classics

➢ A Mark of the Mental - Karen Neander
➢ The Rationality of Perception - Susanna Siegel
➢ Ontology Made Easy - Amie Thomasson
➢ Groups As Agents - Deborah Tollefsen

– David Chalmers (philosopher) *recent works

➢ “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams” - Sylvia Plath
➢ Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day - Nikki Giovanni
➢ If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson

– Brontez Purnell (writer, dancer, musician)

➢ If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson
➢ The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
➢ All About Love - bell hooks

– Carrie Jenkins (philosopher)
@carriejenkins

➢ Growing Gills - Jessica Abel
➢ The Business podcast - Kim Masters
➢ “How Anna Delvey tricked New York” - Jessica Pressler

– Alina Simone (writer, musician)
@AlinaSimone

➢ The Red Record - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
➢ “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective”,
Women, Race, Class - Angela Davis
➢ The Russian Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg

– Liam Bright (philosopher)
@lastpositivist

➢ The Waves - Virginia Woolf
➢ Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
➢ A Dirty War - Anna Politkovskaya

– Phillip Wayne Greenlief (musician, composer) I

➢ Salvador - Joan Didion
➢ petit cadeau - Cludia La Rocco
➢ Education and Native Americans: Entering the 21 st Century on Our Own Terms - Wilma Mankiller

– Phillip Wayne Greenlief (musician, composer) II

➢ The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
➢ Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
➢ Uses of the Erotic - Audre Lorde

– Lucille Baker Scott (writer, editor)

➢ Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America - Geneva Smitherman
➢ “I wrote a good omelet” - Nikki Giovanni
➢ Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

– Luvell Anderson (philosopher)

➢ Consciousness in Action - Susan Hurley
➢ Collected papers on Wittgenstein - Hidé Ishiguro
➢ “The Intentionality of Sensation” - GEM Anscombe

– Alva Noe (philosopher)
@alvanoe

➢ The Awakening - Kate Chopin
➢ Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
➢ “Men Explain Things to Me” - Rebecca Solnit

– Evelyn Davis (musician, composer)

➢ The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
➢ Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
➢ Emma - Jane Austin

– Matthew Kieran (philosopher)

➢ Living My Life - Emma Goldman
➢ The Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing
➢ The Rosicrucian Enlightenment - Dame Francis Yates

– Barrett Brown (writer, activist)
@BarrettBrown_

➢ “Could Love Be Like a Heatwave? Physicalism and the Subjective Character of Experience”- Janet Levin
➢ All publications by Nancy Cartwright & Martha Nussmbaum
➢ Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection - Sarah Hrdy
– @skdevitt (philosopher)

➢ The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin
➢ Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
➢ The Upshot podcast - Sarah Kliff

– Andy Egan (philosopher)
@eganaegana

➢ Slouching Toward Bethlehem, The Year of Magical Thinking, and Blue Nights - Joan Didion
➢ I'm Your Man - Sylvie Simmons
➢ Cut - an album by The Slits

– Jasper Leach (musician, writer)

➢ The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
➢ Places to Intervene in a System - Donella Meadows
➢ It Still Moves - Amanda Petrusich

– Claire Peters (director, activist)
@acbold

➢ Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
➢ The History of White People - Nell Irvin Painter
➢ Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life - Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields

– Abi Hassen (lawyer, activist)
@AbiHassen

➢ The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
➢ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
➢ A Wrinkle in Time quintet - Madeleine L'Engle

– Erin Gallagher (writer, translator, artist) @3r1nG

➢ “Permission to Believe” - Miriam Schoenfield
➢ The collected prose and wit of Jane Austin
➢ The collected musical and lyrical content of Kate Bush & Tori Amos

– Jonathan Weisberg (philosopher) @jweisber

➢ “Futbolistas 4 Life”, a film by Jun Stinson
➢ “Free Solo” and “Meru”, films by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
➢ Actual Films, a production company run by Bonnie Cohen

– Wendi Jonassen (producer, reporter)

➢ Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
➢ A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
➢ Collected Stories - Eudora Welty

– Chris Peck (musician) @PeckCrying

➢ The Heart of A Woman - Maya Angelou
➢ The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
➢ The collected speeches of Angela Davis

– Justin “Big Hongry” Robinson (rapper, photographer, filmmaker)

➢ The Female Man - Joanna Russ
➢ Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
➢ A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
➢ The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

– Joel Robinow (musician, humorist) @radtricks @OnceFutureBand