Book List

This is a work in progress! I am always reading more. If you think I'm missing something please let me know!
As a note PLEASE do not buy from amazon if you can help it. Thriftbooks, local independent book stores, hell order in from queer/black owned/feminist book stores if you can. A lot of them ship nationally!!!

Feminist/Gender Theory

  • "Gender Trouble" by Judith Butler

  • "The Will to Change" by bell hooks

  • "Women, Race, and Class" by Angela Davis

  • "Whipping Girl" by Julia Serrano

  • "Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue" by Leslie Feinberg

  • "Feminism is for Everybody" by bell hooks

Queer Experiences/Narratives

  • "Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold" by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis

  • "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg

  • "Sister Outsider" and "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" by Audre Lorde

  • "Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers" by Lillian Faderman

  • "Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme" edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman

  • "That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation" edited by Matt Bernstein Sycamore

  • "Hijab Butch Blues" by Lamya H

  • "Gender Failure" by Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon

  • "The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions" by Larry Mitchell

  • "I Hope We Choose Love" by Kai Cheng Thom

Fat/Body Politics

  • "Belly of the Beast" by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

  • "What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat" by Aubrey Gordon

  • "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia" by Sabrina Strings

  • "You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People" by Aubrey Gordon

Mental Health

  • "How to Keep House While Drowning" by K.C. Davis

  • "Radical Acceptance" by Tara Branch

  • "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo

  • "The Art of Communicating" by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • "The Body Keeps Score" by Bessel Van Der Klok, MD

  • Full Catastrophe Living" by Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Anger:Wisdom for Cooling the Flames" by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • "Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear" by Dr. Hart

  • "Unmasking Autism" by Dr. Devon Price

Veganism

  • "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer

  • "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows" by Melanie Joy

  • "This is Vegan Propoganda" by Ed Winters

  • "The Spirit of Soul Food by Christopher Carter

Politics

  • "On Anarchism" by Chomsky

  • "The Conquest of Bread" by Petr Kropotkin

  • "Ur-Fascism" by Umberto Eco

  • "Health Communism" by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Fiction

  • "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon

  • "Manhunt" by Gretchen Felker-Martin

  • "The Honeys" by Ryan LaSala

  • "A Master of Djinn" by P. Djeli Clark

  • The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

  • "Tender is the Flesh" by Agustina Bazterrica

  • "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • "Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller

  • "A Memory Called Empire" by Arkady Martine

  • "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. LeGuinn

  • "Parable of the Sower" by Octavia Butler

  • "The Reformary" by Tananarive Due