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How We Get Free

How We Get Free

Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

ByKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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40 books

Non Fiction

Cleo
Cléo
Bad Feminist
The Body Keeps the Score
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Everything I Know About Love
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
My Body

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489 books

Nonfiction

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kab
Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry
Tricks of the mind
Brief History of Time
Mythology
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Riding the Iron Rooster
Catch Me If You Can

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64 books

Feminism

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kab
But Some of Us are Brave
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Sexed Up
Identités Françaises: Banlieues, Féminités Et Universalisme
Know My Name
Afrofem
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

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139 books

Social Justice

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kab
White Fragility
Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
A Burst of Light and Other Essays
The Cancer Journals

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98 books

Antiracism Anti Imperialism

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kab
But Some of Us are Brave
Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
Identités Françaises: Banlieues, Féminités Et Universalisme
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
Border Nation: A Story of Migration

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38 books

Favourites

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kab
Bloodchild
As We Have Always Done
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Spirits Abroad
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
Death's End
Thick

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69 books

History

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kab
Kingdom of Characters
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
One Step Further: My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission

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29 books

Non Fiction

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grae
Topgun: An American Story
My Thoughts Exactly
Everybody Has a Podcast
The World As It Is
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
On Tyranny

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200 books

Read In 2020

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Barbara
This is Love
Talking As Fast As I Can
Rogue Princess
The Battle of the Labyrinth
We Should All Be Feminists
I Woke Up Dead at the Mall
Windwitch

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107 books

To Purchase

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Elisa Romagnoli
God Help the Child
Liberation Theology for Armchair Theologians
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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36 books

Our Lives Matter

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Elisa Romagnoli
The Color of Compromise
Becoming
I Am Enough
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Woke Church
The Color of Law

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30 books

Intersectionality

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Elisa Romagnoli
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Sing, Unburied, Sing
When I Was White: A Memoir
The Fire This Time
Black Is the Body
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan

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247 books

What I Want To Read Soon

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jackie
The Glass Menagerie
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Anna Karenina
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard: Library Edition
The Orphan Master's Son
Violins of Hope

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5 books

Theme: Feminism

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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Trick Mirror
It's Not About the Burqa
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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6 books

Theme: Race Studies

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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
White Fragility
So You Want to Talk about Race
The Fire Next Time

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180 books

Lgbtq

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kab
Picture Us in the Light
A Little Life
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
The Song of Achilles
The Color Purple
Giovanni's Room
Another Country

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269 books

Non Fiction

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vyhurz
The ABC's of Lgbt
Always Another Country
The Amazons
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Asking for It
A Bestiary