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More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
A powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as 'other.'
- Technology Critique
- Algorithmic Bias
- Intersectional Feminism
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
A sharp work by feminist writer Glosswitch exploring why women in their forties and beyond seem to enrage almost everyone. In an era of identity politics, middle-aged women are portrayed as bigoted, entitled, and morally inferior. Smith traces history to reveal why this specific form of misogyny is so rampant today. Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Awards.
- Ageism and Gender
- Feminist Theory
- Intersectional Feminism
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini's groundbreaking exploration challenging assumptions that male dominance is natural to the human species. Through archaeology, scientific research, and global cultural histories, this book reveals how patriarchy emerged around 7,000 years ago, spread through colonialism, and why understanding this history is crucial for achieving genuine gender equality.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Historical Context
- Feminist Theory
The Sex Lives of African Women
Through intimate testimony from African and diasporic women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah replaces narratives of sexual danger and victimhood with a plural archive of desire, pleasure, freedom, and healing.
- African Feminism
- Sexuality
- Bodily Autonomy
Reckoning
A lifetime's work from the Tony Award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues. Spanning forty years of journals, V's Reckoning is a powerful collage of poetry, prose, dreams, and letters that chronicles her journey from childhood trauma to global activism, showing how to transform personal pain into collective power and write oneself into freedom.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Feminist Art
- Feminist Theory
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
Through the personal experiences of historian Felicia Kornbluh's mother and neighbor, this book reveals the untold story of two grassroots movements in New York that transformed American reproductive rights politics - the fight to decriminalize abortion and the struggle against sterilization abuse.
- Reproductive Justice
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Abortion Rights
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Thenmozhi Soundararajan combines memoir, Dalit feminism, engaged Buddhism, and embodied practice to examine how caste injury enters bodies, communities, and transnational institutions.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Prison Abolition
The Future Is Disabled
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning SongsPiepzna-Samarasinha turns disabled survival, grief, mutual aid, and imagination in the COVID era into a political account of disabled futures.
- Disability Justice
- Care Ethics
- Queer Theory
Before We Were Trans
Kit Heyam challenges modern, white, medicalized origin stories of gender variance while demonstrating how to write trans history without imposing definitive identities on people in the past.
- Trans Studies
- Historical Context
- Decolonial Feminism
Hysterical: A Memoir
Acclaimed humor writer Elissa Bassist's memoir about reclaiming her authentic voice in a culture that doesn't listen to women. Between 2016-2018 she saw 20+ medical professionals for mysterious ailments, until an acupuncturist suggested her physical pain could be caged fury. This is medical mystery, cultural criticism, and rallying cry. Semi-finalist for 2023 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
- Medical Patriarchy Critique
- Women's Health
- Feminist Psychology
The Transgender Issue
Shon Faye argues that trans justice is inseparable from healthcare, housing, work, sex work, prison, migration, class, and social justice.
- Trans Feminism
- Social Justice
- Trans Health
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Louise Perry challenges a sexual liberalism that treats consent and choice as a complete ethic, foregrounding gendered risk while inviting scrutiny of her biological essentialism, marital prescription, and limited engagement with queer and sex-worker perspectives.
- Feminist Theory
- Sexual Politics
- Cultural Critique
Year of the Tiger
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's LifeAlice Wong's memoir braids Asian American identity, disability activism, family, humor, media work, and community building into a personal archive of disability justice.
- Disability Justice
- Asian American Feminism
- Race and Gender
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
No More Police reframes safety by taking it out of punishment infrastructure and into care, survivor support, and social redesign, advancing abolitionist feminist and transformative justice frameworks.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Race and Gender
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
First-generation Filipino American author Angela Garbes combines memoir with cultural analysis to critically examine mothering expectations and assumptions, revealing how American society depends on yet often overlooks the essential contributions of mothers and family caregivers.
- Emotional Labor
- Ethics of Care
- Intersectional Feminism
Reclaiming Two-Spirits
Gregory D. Smithers traces Indigenous gender traditions through colonial suppression, survival, and renewal, locating the modern reclamation of Two-Spirit identity within language, spirituality, and sovereignty.
- Two-Spirit
- Indigenous Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves
This community resource collects trans-authored and trans-centered guidance on health, law, culture, history, family, sexuality, and life course issues.
- Trans Health
- Bodily Autonomy
- Trans Feminism
The Cyberfeminism Index
A pioneering work exploring feminism in the digital age, analyzing how the internet, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies are reshaping gender relations and feminist practice.
- Digital Feminism
- Technology Critique
- AI Ethics
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
A provocative examination of women's sexuality, desire, and agency in the contemporary era of affirmative consent. Angel challenges simplistic narratives about sexual empowerment and explores the complex relationship between consent, desire, and female sexual autonomy in the wake of #MeToo.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Sexual Liberation
- MeToo Movement
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist movement histories.
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
- Transformative Justice
Fresh Banana Leaves
Drawing on Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá family memory, environmental science, and community cases, Jessica Hernandez critiques ecocolonialism and reimagines stewardship through Indigenous science.
- Indigenous Feminism
- Environmental Justice
- Indigenous Sovereignty
In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
A powerful feminist analysis connecting historical witch hunts to contemporary attacks on women's autonomy. Chollet examines how the persecution of 'witches' - independent women, childless women, and aging women - established patterns of misogyny that continue to shape how society treats women who defy traditional roles.
- Historical Feminism
- Patriarchy Critique
- Bodily Autonomy
A Decolonial Black Feminist Theory of Reading and Shade
Andrea N. Baldwin reads the US university through Black feminism, affect, and decolonial theory, showing how inclusion coexists with institutional indifference and developing shade as a critical method.
- Black Feminism
- Decolonial Feminism
- Knowledge Production
My Body
A profound self-reflection from supermodel turned writer, analyzing the complex mechanisms of female body commodification through personal experience, exploring modern women's survival predicament between desire and contempt.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Fourth Wave Feminism
- Cultural Critique