WE GET FREE
monthly virtual facilitated book club
READING OUR WAY TO LIBERATION
How many of us have those awesome anti-racism, anti-capitalism, trans-feminist, and Black anti-fascist books on our shelves (or in our online shopping carts) but never crack them open?
Reading the titles is great, but benefiting from the liberatory lessons and wisdom within is better.
And right now, we need all the wisdom we can get.
So let's do it together! Join our monthly virtual facilitated "We Get Free" book club!
HOW IT WORKS
1. We read one book per month (scroll down for upcoming reads). You are responsible for getting a copy of the book -- many are available for free at your library or as PDFs online.
2. Pick the 2-hour session works best for your schedule (for now we're offering two per month at different times to accommodate so many time zones).
3. Pay the sliding-scale fee: $5-20 per session. We ask that those who can pay more do so whenever possible to support our work. No one will be turned away for lack of funds -- select the "Solidarity" option to join for free.
4. Read as much of the book as you can, making notes and reflecting on parts that strike you or resonate with you, and come ready to share your thoughts, questions, and feelings that came up.
Together, we will cultivate a group ethos of radical love, acceptance, and encouragement as we learn and grow together!
UPCOMING BOOKS + DATES
We offer two different meeting dates per month to accommodate folks in different time zones. When you register, just choose the one each month that works best for your schedule:
Option 1: Every 4th Monday of the month @ 6-8pm EST / 3-5pm PST
Option 2: Every 4th Tuesday of the month @ 9-11pm EST / 6-8pm PST
January 2026
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, this 1963 book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two “letters,” written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both Black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism.
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Option 1: Monday, Jan. 26 @ 6-8pm EST / 3-5pm PST
Option 2: Tuesday, Jan. 27 @ 9-11pm EST / 6-8pm PST
February 2026
Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
by Congressman John Lewis
Written by a key figure of the Civil Rights Movement and political leadership for decades whose invocation to “good trouble” continues to inspire millions across our nation. While battling cancer in his last months on earth, he dedicated time to share his memories, beliefs, and advice—exclusively immortalized in these pages—as a message to the generations to come. Organized by topic ranging from justice, courage, faith, mentorship, and forgiveness to the protests and the pandemic, and many more besides.
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Option 1: Monday, Feb. 23 @ 6-8pm EST / 3-5pm PST
Option 2: Tuesday, Feb. 24 @ 9-11pm EST / 6-8pm PST
March 2026
SACRED INSTRUCTIONS: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
by Sherri Mitchell
Penobscot leader, lawyer, and activist Sherri Mitchell offers enduring lessons rooted in powerful First Nations cosmologies and timeless universal insights. She speaks directly into the crises of our time--environmental injustice, colonial extraction, and profound disconnection--with teachings and tools for embodying sacred and reciprocal ways of life.
Drawing from ancestral knowledge, as well as her experience as an attorney and activist, Mitchell explores the most crucial issues of our day:
- Indigenous land rights
- Environmental justice
- Our collective human survival
- The immense harms of patriarchy
- How we build, and learn from, meaningful community
- Wisdom and insights for restoring what's been lost, for the sake of us all and the more-than-human world
Sacred Instructions explains how our traditional stories frame our belief systems. It urges us to decolonize our language and our stories. It reveals how the removal of women from our stories has impacted our thinking and disrupted the natural balance within our communities. And, with gifts and insights received from the elders of the Penobscot Nation, it asks us to look deeply into the illusions we've accepted as truth--but which separate us from our higher minds, each other, and the earth.
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Option 1: Monday, Mar. 23 @ 6-8pm EST / 3-5pm PST
Option 2: Tuesday, Mar. 24 @ 9-11pm EST / 6-8pm PST
April 2026
The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
by Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen
At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition is an essential book for understanding our present moment and the challenges ahead. From London to the Caribbean, from Ethiopia to Harlem, from Black Lives Matter to abolition, Black radicals and writers have long understood fascism as a threat to the survival of Black people around the world—and to everyone. In The Black Antifascist Tradition, scholar-activists Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen show how generations of Black activists and intellectuals—from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex—have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism.
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Option 1: Monday, Apr. 27 @ 6-8pm EST / 3-5pm PST
Option 2: Tuesday, Apr. 28 @ 9-11pm EST / 6-8pm PST
May 2026
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs
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In honor of Mother's Day month, we'll learn about how Berdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little -- three Black women all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow. These three extraordinary women passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning -- from Louise teaching her children about their activist roots, to Berdis encouraging James to express himself through writing, to Alberta basing all of her lessons in faith and social justice. These women used their strength and motherhood to push their children toward greatness, all with a conviction that every human being deserves dignity and respect despite the rampant discrimination they faced.
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These three mothers taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth of Black people to their sons, even when these beliefs flew in the face of America's racist practices and led to ramifications for all three families' safety. The fight for equal justice and dignity came above all else for the three mothers.
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These women, their similarities and differences, as individuals and as mothers, represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue.
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Option 1: Monday, May 25 @ 6-8pm EST / 3-5pm PST
Option 2: Tuesday, May 26 @ 9-11pm EST / 6-8pm PST
June 2026
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
by Mariame Kaba
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“Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.”
What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle.
With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”
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Option 1: Monday, Jun. 22 @ 6-8pm EST / 3-5pm PST
Option 2: Tuesday, Jun. 23 @ 9-11pm EST / 6-8pm PST
Book Club FACILITATOR
Milo Primeaux (he/they/bear) is a white Lebanese queer transgender person, civil rights attorney licensed in New York, and the CEO of Just Roots Consulting. Milo is long-time community organizer and bridger, facilitator and educator, writer and music-maker, and a community death doula of oppressive dominant cultures. Milo lives in Santa Cruz, California with a loving partner and their furfriend Teddy. Milo approaches their work with humility, generosity, compassion, and humor while holding people firmly in their stated values and truths.
Why Choose Just Roots?
Personal. Engaging. Dynamic. Inspiring.
Just Roots Consulting, LLC is a Certified LGBT Business Enterprise that helps organizations be industry leaders in workplace equity, inclusion, and diversity.
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As a social enterprise, we proudly boast a triple bottom-line:
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We are a for-profit enterprise that pays all our consultants and contributors competitive and above-market rates for their expertise and emotional labor.
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We are committed to preserving natural resources, reducing our carbon footprint, and supporting like-minded businesses in our choice of vendors and contractors.
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We dedicate a portion of our profits support leadership and entrepreneurship for LGBTQ+ communities of color.
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Our expert team of consultants and facilitators is hand-picked for each project and program, always including LGBTQ+ people, people of color, and/or people with disabilities. We are committed to modeling radical transparency and accountability in our policies and practices -- something we ask our students to do, too.
