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Social Justice & Women's Studies

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13 participants (715 books)

11 Dec 2024—31 Dec 2029

Overview

 Social Justice & Women's Studies

Reading is Resistance!

De-colonize your history references,  education, and bookshelves. 

Fight the patriarchy! 

Core values: 
  • Anti-ableism, 
  • Anti-racism & white supremacy, 
  • Anti-queerphobia & transphobia, 
  • Anti-misogyny & patriarchy, 
  • Anti-colonialism, 
  • Anti-monosexism, heterosexism, & cisgenderism, 
  • Pro-survivor & anti-abuse, 
  • Anti-capitalism, Harm reduction & trauma-informed responses

A journey through learning via books both fiction and nonfiction during the next five years.

"Women's Studies is a category of books that focuses on the experiences, perspectives, and contributions of women in society. It encompasses a wide range of topics, including gender roles, feminism, women's history, sexuality, and reproductive rights. The goal of Women's Studies is to promote a deeper understanding of the social, cultural, and political issues that affect women, and to empower women to challenge and change the status quo. Books in this category often offer critical analysis and insights into the ways in which gender intersects with other forms of oppression, such as race, class, and sexuality."

If you would like to do a book club with some of these reads or a Readalong, let me know via email at blreads@gmail.com, and I'll set it up. 

Challenge Books

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18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

360 pages • 2020 • 10 editions

nonfiction history science true crime informative slow-paced
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel

The Story of Art without Men

Katy Hessel

512 pages • 2022 • 19 editions

nonfiction art history challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

C. Riley Snorton

8h 52m • 2017 • 8 editions

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America by Krista Burton

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America

Krista Burton

320 pages • 2023 • 6 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir travel funny hopeful informative medium-paced
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

430 pages • 2022 • 23 editions

nonfiction graphic novel memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Mary Gabriel

944 pages • 2018 • 8 editions

nonfiction art biography history informative inspiring medium-paced
Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah Carlson

Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Hannah Carlson

6h 38m • 2023 • 3 editions

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare

Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation

Eli Clare

7h 16m • 1999 • 16 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

Jared Yates Sexton

266 pages • 2019 • 5 editions

nonfiction feminism memoir psychology reflective medium-paced
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Jia Tolentino

303 pages • 2019 • 35 editions

nonfiction essays feminism challenging reflective medium-paced