discussion starters

Working class bingo (by carenejeans).

Being Poor — A justifiably famous blog post by John Scalzi.  (This is included in the “Entry Level” zine mentioned below.)

My Friends of Dennis tag at Delicious — These are mostly articles on subjects that touch on class(ism) in some way.

Entry Level — A comp zine of personal stories of class, which i put together for Wiscon 33.  Available on the Crabby Media website as a free PDF download (or available for order for $2.50US).

“Deconstructing class(ism)”  — A tag i use both here on wrdnrd.net and also over on my Dreamwidth.  There may be interesting topics of discussions in my ranting.

conversational spaces

Deconstructing class — A community at Dreamwidth (open membership).

Debunkingclass — A community at LiveJournal (open membership).

blogs

Working-Class Perspectives — “Working-Class Perspectives offers weekly commentaries on current issues related to working-class people and communities. Contributors discuss a variety of issues, from what class means to how it intersects with race and gender to how class is shaping American politics. New posts appear every Monday.”

Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism — “Enough is a space for conversations about how a commitment to wealth redistribution plays out in our lives: how we decide what to have, what to keep, what to give away; how we work together to build sustainable grassroots movements; how we challenge capitalism in daily, revolutionary ways.”

individual books

bibliographies

An excellent bibliography of class-related books has been put together by academic Barbara Jensen and is available in the Entry Level zine (as mentioned above — free PDF download or $2.50US via the Crabby Media website for a paper copy).

I maintain an attempt to catalog works of speculative literature (science fiction, fantasy, et cetera) that deal with class(ism) in some way: class(ism) in spec lit.