mylifeasafeminista:

This list is still a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted.  I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me.  Please reblog and add your own suggestions to the list.  Each time someone adds something new, I’ll go back to this original post and make sure to include them.  Thanks and enjoy!

Books

• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
• Women Culture and Politics by Angela Davis
• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
• Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
• Aint I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
• Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
• Feminist Theory from Margin to Center by bell hooks
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty
• Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales
• Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Jessica Yee
• Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith

Anthologies

• Companeras: Latina Lesbians by Juanita Ramos and the Lesbian History Project
• Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Daisy Hernandez
• This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
• this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation edited by Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating
• Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color edited by Gloria Anzaldúa
• Women Writing Resistance: Essays from Latin America and the Caribbean edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
• Unequal Sisters edited by Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz
• The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology

Essays

• “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich
• “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” by Kimberle Crenshaw
• The Combahee River Collective Statement

Other authors and poets you should know

• Maya Angelou
• Toni Morrison
• Alice Walker
• Nawaal El Sadaawi
• Mary Crow Dog
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Arundhati Roy
• Zadie Smith
• Dorothy Roberts
• Nikki Giovanni (submitted by my bff maskofmaterials)
• Lucille Clifton (submitted by my bff maskofmaterials)

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