When I Dare to Be Powerful
By: Audre Lorde
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet,…
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1. Dream Work
By: Mary Oliver
4.35
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- womens
- queer
"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"-Mary Oliver, Dream Work
2. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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- feminism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
3. Sharks in the Rivers
By: Ada Limon
3.95
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood … read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
4. Race: Vintage Minis
By: Toni Morrison
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels ra… read more
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- classics
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
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6. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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8. Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
By: Rafia Zakaria
4.32
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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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- womens
"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
9. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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- poetry
- politics
10. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
11. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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- feminism
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
12. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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- classics
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
13. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.47
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre,… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- essays
"The things we do to stay close to the people we think will carry us through an entire lifetime..."-Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
14. 100 Queer Poems
By: Mary Jean Chan
3.82
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thril… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
15. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
16. Animals Eat Each Other
By: Elle Nash
3.48
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other
17. Why Vegan? (Penguin Great Ideas)
By: Peter Singer
4.06
Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition
'So the only question do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
18. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
19. When I Dare to Be Powerful
By: Audre Lorde
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet,… read more
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- poetry
- classics
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
- queer
20. What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape
By: Sohaila Abdulali
4.39
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
In the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest—and… read more
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- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- womens
"No matter how much you heal, you can never be unraped, any more than you can be undead."-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape
"We've created a narrative that says that either it didn't happen to you, or you deserved it."-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape
"Human beings are complex, and one person may bounce back quickly from a crime that breaks another's spirit."-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape
"Power corrupts everything that is already corrupt about rape: who is believed, who is accountable, who is punished, and why."-Sohaila Abdulali, What We Talk About When We Talk about Rape
21. Hair/Power: Essays on Control and Freedom (Inklings, #15)
By: Kajal Odedra
4.21
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Hair is potent. It can be an emotional and intense matter across gender - it will grow in places yo… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
