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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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

Lawrence T. Brown

368 pages • 2021 • 5 editions

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

296 pages • 2019 • 8 editions

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself by David Mura

The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself

David Mura

292 pages • 2023 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Kyla Schuller

11h 34m • 2021 • 4 editions

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century by Boston Women's Health Book Collective

Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century

Boston Women's Health Book Collective

784 pages • 1970 • 25 editions

nonfiction feminism health reference informative medium-paced
Dear White Women: Let's Get (Un)comfortable Talking about Racism by Sara Blanchard, Misasha Suzuki Graham

Dear White Women: Let's Get (Un)comfortable Talking about Racism

Sara Blanchard, Misasha Suzuki Graham

264 pages • 2021 • 3 editions

nonfiction race self help sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Dear White Women, It's Not You. It's Me. I'm Breaking Up With You!: Commentaries on Race, White Feminism, Allyship and Intersectionality by Hannah L. Drake

Dear White Women, It's Not You. It's Me. I'm Breaking Up With You!: Commentaries on Race, White Feminism, Allyship and Intersectionality

Hannah L. Drake

209 pages • 2019 • 1 edition

nonfiction race challenging reflective slow-paced
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

229 pages • 2017 • 5 editions

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Nadia Murad

12h 16m • 2017 • 71 editions

nonfiction memoir politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator's Guide to an Antiracist Future by Myisha T. Hill

Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator's Guide to an Antiracist Future

Myisha T. Hill

288 pages • 2022 • 4 editions

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced