A Cultural Bookshop

Education Is Rebellion With Better Design.

Hand-picked reading journeys, from your first doubts to building something better. Five questions tell you where to start.

Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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Punk & Pedagogy is an anti-authoritarian bookshop for readers, educators, parents, and makers who believe knowledge is liberation. We curate books across five stages of critical awakening — from questioning the world around you to building something better.

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The most subversive thing you can do is think for yourself. — Audre LordeTo be truly radical is to make hope possible. — Raymond WilliamsWhen education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. — Paulo FreireArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. — Cesar A. CruzThe master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. — Audre LordeIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — Jiddu KrishnamurtiImagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. — Lewis CarrollIf you want to build a ship, teach people to long for the sea. — Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe most subversive thing you can do is think for yourself. — Audre LordeTo be truly radical is to make hope possible. — Raymond WilliamsWhen education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor. — Paulo FreireArt should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. — Cesar A. CruzThe master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. — Audre LordeIt is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. — Jiddu KrishnamurtiImagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. — Lewis CarrollIf you want to build a ship, teach people to long for the sea. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The P&P book club

The status quo is overdue.

We read the books for people who are done pretending everything’s fine, together.

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Featured Reading Journey

A Reading Journey is four books on one theme, one from each stage of the arc. Read them in order: the first helps you see through it, the last helps you build something better. Some come with extra picks for younger readers too.

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The Right to Have Rights: When Membership Is Revocable

The government says it has filed 123 cases to strip citizenship. A tool with a legitimate past gets easy to widen.

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Banned & Challenged

Somebody Didn’t Want You to Read These.

77 books on our shelves have been pulled, restricted or challenged in a US school or library. We carry every one, with the record of who tried and why. Live fights first.

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Breathless

Jennifer Niven