Archive - Reading as Resistance

Family Members We Didn't Choose

On the relationships we inherit vs. the ones we earn.

Jun 8 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

What Every Human Being Has In Common

Something that eventually all of us will relate to.

Jun 3

May 2026

slow reading - one book a month is the most radical thing I have done for my mind

Creating a meaningful impact in my life by consuming less to connect more.

May 31 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

35:25

📚 Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro, humanity and humaneness

Watch now (23 mins) | The unavoidable ideas that were in my head after reading such an amazing yet dark story.

May 30 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

22:53

They Knew But They Weren't Aware Yet | Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Prep material for the live session on the 29th of May

May 27 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

All That We Do Compiles

There is no need to sacrifice your current path if is not your desire.

May 25

You Can't Desire What You've Never Known

Desire requires awareness, we can only want what we know to exist.

May 18 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

Within the Resistance: Episode #1 (welcome new members + behind the scenes + next projects)

A recording from Ana Paula Valadez Mena's live video

May 13 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

46:47

we are afraid of not belonging, maybe we will always be

May 11 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

No One Knows What Is Going Inside Us

there maybe a part of us that wishes that our traumas would not dictate as much of our lives as they do

May 4 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

April 2026

Building Reading as Resistance as a Business

Within the Resistance, public accountability

Apr 27 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena

Can Hope Be an Act of Defiance?

On grief, creation, and what it means to keep making something in a world that gives you every reason not to.

Apr 20 • Ana Paula Valadez Mena and Cara Matsukane

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