By: Julie R. Enszer
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Pat Parker and Audre Lorde first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years la…
Want to Read"This is not a piece of paper, but my arm extending across all the damn miles between us to hold you and hug you with all the strength, we have had to gain from the pain."-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
"A year seems like a lot of time now at this end - it isn't. [...] Don't lose your sense of urgency on the other hand, on the other, don't be too hard on yourself - or expect too much."-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
"Beware the terror of not producing. Beware the urge to justify your decision. Watch out for the kitchen sink and the plumbing and the painting that always needed being done. But remember the body needs to create too. Beware feeling you're not good enough to deserve it. Beware feeling you're too good to need it. Beware all the hatred you've stored up inside you, and the locks on your tender places."-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
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By: bell hooks
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand… read more
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"Hopelessness generates inactivity."-bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters
"While the poor are offered addiction as a way to escape thinking too much, working people are encouraged to shop."-bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters
"From the onset, reformist white women with class privilege were well aware that the power and freedom they wanted was the freedom they perceived men of their class enjoying."-bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters
"For many people the thrill of having more is intensified by the presence of those who have less. Waste is not the issue here. To many greedy individuals, power lies in withholding resources."-bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters
By: Jamaica Kincaid
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
By: Audre Lorde
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexit… read more
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"[…] your smile has been to war"-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
"I have died too many deaths that were not mine."-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
"Our labor has become more important than our silence."-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
By: Audre Lorde
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins this power… read more
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"The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible."-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be ca…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be …"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires ke…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Toni Cade Bambara , Cherríe L. Moraga
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. … read more
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"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
By: Audre Lorde
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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By: Zora Neale Hurston
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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By: Alison Bechdel
Format: 718 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more
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By: Leslie Feinberg
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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By: bell hooks
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about p… read more
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By: Audre Lorde
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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By: Adrienne Rich
Format: 166 pages,
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By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more
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By: Audre Lorde
Format: None pages, Paperback
Black freedom fighter's strength and signifying words. Essays. 1989 Before Columbus Foundation Amer… read more
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By: John Allison , None , Lissa Treiman
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away f… read more
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By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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Similar categories in Pat Parker's Womanslaughter book and Julie R. Enszer's Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
By: Saidiya Hartman
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Rafia Zakaria
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as “experts” on feminism. They have presided… read more
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"Trickle-down feminism, everyone assumed, would miraculously fast forward the realization of a gender-equal, free market world created in the self image of America."-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"White and western women are seen as participants in complex modern societies. Their problems cannot be solved with a single, neat gift. Women of color are imagined as existing in a much simpler world…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"But American journalists, female journalists in particular, created a narrative for the war on terror that reaffirmed it as one fought by a feminist America, against anti-feminist, primitive, patriar…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
"Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into mean…"-Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Seán Hewitt
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming… read more
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"When they said, 'I'm just scared that you'll be unhappy', what I really felt they were saying was 'I am scared that if you continue being yourself, we will make you unhappy."-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
"Omdat ik nu eenmaal was wie ik ben, had ik al vroeg de heimelijke tactieken van het conformisme begrepen: hoe je een slis verhult, een al te uitgesproken tred corrigeert, je stem een paar tonen lager…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
By: Lamya H.
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
By: Phillip B. Williams
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that dem… read more
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"In Ours, the grass that grows is sharp. It gleams at its edges, such that when the buttery light of spring falls into it, the light cries out and yellow pours slowly over the earth."-Phillip B. Williams, Ours
By: Imogen Binnie
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more
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"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."-Imogen Binnie, Nevada
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Jenny Fran Davis
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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By: Chencia C. Higgins
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
D’Vaughn and Kris have six weeks to plan their dream wedding.Their whole relationship is fake.Insta… read more
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"Lean on me if you have to,"-Chencia C. Higgins, D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
"No one has ever said that to me before, and I've certainly never said it to anyone...or imagined that I ever would. I thought love would make me weak. And I was right, because when you said it, you c…"-Chencia C. Higgins, D'Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
By: Dean Spade
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
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"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Julie R. Enszer
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
Pat Parker and Audre Lorde first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years la… read more
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"This is not a piece of paper, but my arm extending across all the damn miles between us to hold you and hug you with all the strength, we have had to gain from the pain."-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
"A year seems like a lot of time now at this end - it isn't. [...] Don't lose your sense of urgency on the other hand, on the other, don't be too hard on yourself - or expect too much."-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
"Beware the terror of not producing. Beware the urge to justify your decision. Watch out for the kitchen sink and the plumbing and the painting that always needed being done. But remember the body nee…"-Julie R. Enszer, Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
By: Ziwe
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more
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"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays
By: Pat Parker
Format: 484 pages, Paperback
"The Complete Works of Pat Parker gathers all of Parker’s published work from two books (Movement i… read more
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