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Books that changed my perspective of the world!
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items These books are the ones that will stick with you forever. You will be challenged, you may have to look up some terminology, but you will grow and evolve into a smarter, better human.
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Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction books that changed my brain chemistry!
This book discusses the intersectionality between race, class, and gender. How the feminist movement often marginalizes women of color. It will also give you some history of women's movements in the US from slavery into the 20th century.
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
If you don't know much about the US prison-industrial complex, please treat yourself to this swift education. Davis discusses our prison systems history and impact on upholding racism and sexism.
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
This is a collection of essay's and interviews, how current resistances like Ferguson and Palestine connect with long histories of resistance. Even though there are some heavy topics, it gives me so much hope to read this book, so when I need some ho...
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
This was the first book on feminism I ever read. It discusses being an imperfect feminist, it's not about being perfect it's about embracing imperfections while learning and being a part of a movement. It discusses intersectionality, critiques repres...
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
This changed everything I thought about feminism in the best way possible. She centers the most underserved communities, specifically BIPOC women who have experienced inequity in housing, education, healthcare, and forced population control. How we s...
Hood Feminism: Notes from Women by Mikki Kendall
The book's website TraumaStewardship.com says it best: “Trauma Stewardship is for anyone who’s trying to make the world a better place while reckoning with the personal toll that effort can take”. If you are a social worker, therapist, nurse, do ANY type of work where you are caring for ot...
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk
Fiction
Fiction books that changed my brain chemistry!
If you've been pondering whether you made the right decision, or what your life would have been like if something went differently, this is the book for you. It gave me a fresh view on that existential feeling.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
YA horror (not scary horror, atmospheric horror) about a Black ballerina who is constantly overlooked in the racist, classist Parisian ballet. I'll let the description speak for itself:
“Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laur...
“Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laur...
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
The sequel to Jamison Shea's "I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me". If you loved the first one, you'll love this one too. This duology is dear to my heart as a former ballerina.
I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call by Jamison Shea
A southern gothic horror atmosphere combined with a small-town mystery featuring POC characters. This book brings to light the classism and racism of the south, but does it via a periodical cicada brood returning from underground that demands a sacri...
When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur
Historical fiction but the history is real, and Harriet Tubman has come back from the afterlife to write a hip hop album to tell her story. I learned things that I should have learned in history class in middle school, and I also had a lot of fun rea...
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen