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Women Don't Owe You Pretty
A vibrant manifesto for intersectional feminism that challenges beauty standards, toxic relationships, and societal expectations. Given combines personal insight with political analysis to encourage women to reject the pressure to be 'pretty' for others and embrace their authentic selves.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Body Positivity
- Third Wave Feminism
Qiuyuan
秋园Qiuyuan is the debut work of Chinese amateur author Yang Benfen, written at the age of 80. Centered on the life of the author's mother Liang Qiufang (nicknamed Qiuyuan), it tells the story of an ordinary Chinese woman who lived through war, famine, and political upheaval throughout the 20th century. This is a moving work about women, memory, and history, as well as a heartfelt retrieval of the countless Chinese women lost to history.
- Women's Literature
- Family Liberation
- Cultural Critique
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition
Liat Ben-Moshe connects deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, challenging the claim that closing institutions caused mass incarceration.
- Disability Justice
- Prison Abolition
- Carceral Feminism
A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety
Sarah Jaquette Ray writes for the climate generation about anxiety, burnout, action, and resilience, bringing emotional labor into climate education.
- Climate Justice
- Mental Health
- Feminist Education
Female Husbands
Jen Manion reconstructs the lives called “female husbands” in Britain and the United States, asking how marriage, labor, class, and the press produced gender.
- Trans Studies
- Queer Theory
- Historical Context
Untamed
The courage to escape the cage of ‘good woman’ and ‘good mother’ and live according to one's own truth. A soulful memoir by an author who overcame years of addiction and a painful marriage to find true love and freedom, empowering women worldwide.
- Women's Literature
- Bodily Autonomy
- Mental Health
Design Justice
Costanza-Chock connects trans airport screening and disability justice to community-led design, asking who controls decisions and receives their benefits.
- Data Feminism
- Design Justice
- Data Justice
Hood Feminism
A powerful critique of mainstream feminism's failure to address the basic needs of marginalized women, advocating for housing, food, education, and other survival issues to be at the core of feminist agenda.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Economic Empowerment
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A poetically written and sharply critical exploration of the unspoken pain, anger, and alienation hidden behind the myth of the ‘model minority.’ Cathy Park Hong dismantles the racial and social hierarchies of American society through the lens of her own experiences as an Asian American woman.
- Intersectional Feminism
- Race and Gender
- Cultural Critique
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Organizers share tools and experiences of transformative justice, addressing harm and accountability without relying on police or prisons.
- Transformative Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Queer Theory
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution
A groundbreaking work of ecofeminist scholarship that examines how the Scientific Revolution transformed Western culture's understanding of nature from a living, nurturing organism to a dead, mechanical object to be exploited. Merchant reveals the intimate connection between the domination of women and the domination of nature.
- Ecofeminism
- Science Studies
- Patriarchy Critique
Climate Justice
Mary Robinson connects stories from Uganda, Mississippi, and the Pacific to climate justice, gendered labor, migration, human rights, and political voice.
- Climate Justice
- Women's Rights
- Global Feminism
The Charisma Machine
Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.
- Technology Critique
- Feminist Education
- Development Studies
Short Anti-racist Guide
Pequeno manual antirracistaShort Anti-racist Guide is a bestselling book by Brazilian Black feminist philosopher Djamila Ribeiro. This concise yet powerful book not only explains the structural origins of racism but, more importantly, provides 11 concrete practical guidelines, teaching readers how to actively practice anti-racism in their daily lives.
- Antiracist Politics
- Black Feminism
- Intersectionality
Know My Name
In 2015, when Stanford University student Brock Turner sexually assaulted a woman known as 'Emily Doe,' this case became a symbol of unity for women across America. Because of the worst thing that happened to her, Emily Doe became one of the most famous women in the world - yet no one knew her real name. This all changed in 2019 when Chanel Miller revealed herself as 'Emily Doe' and published this memoir, telling her story as an act of reclaiming narrative identity.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Bodily Autonomy
- Media Representation Critique
Sorted
Using childhood journals and online community, Jackson Bird traces how language for a trans life emerges across family, school, and public storytelling.
- Trans Masculinity
- Youth Rights
- Memoir
The Testaments
Thirty-four years after 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Margaret Atwood delivers a stunning sequel following the collapse of the Republic of Gilead through the perspectives of three different women. It depicts how the fires of resistance are lit from within an oppressed regime and how absolute power eventually crumbles.
- Women's Literature
- Political Participation
- Women's Rights
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Investigating welfare, homeless housing, and child protection, Virginia Eubanks shows how automation disguises austerity as neutral efficiency and subjects poor people to continuous surveillance.
- Data Feminism
- Data Justice
- Technology Critique
A Terrible Thing to Waste
Harriet A. Washington links environmental racism and toxic exposure to health and cognitive harm, challenging claims that racial inequality is biological.
- Environmental Justice
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde combines personal narrative and social analysis to show caste not as India’s past, but as power still operating in education, love, labor, and diaspora.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Race and Gender
Breasts and Eggs
夏物語Mieko Kawakami's 'Breasts and Eggs' is a monumental work of contemporary Japanese literature that challenges traditional feminine norms. The novel follows three women: Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's daughter Midoriko. Through their intersecting lives, Kawakami explores questions of female agency, bodily autonomy, reproductive ethics, and the societal pressures placed on women's bodies in modern Japan.
- Body Politics
- Reproductive Autonomy
- Family Liberation
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin’s New Jim Code framework shows how racial hierarchy can be engineered, hidden by defaults, intensified through surveillance, or repackaged as a benevolent technical fix.
- Data Feminism
- AI Ethics
- Race and Gender
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan offer exercises for community accountability facilitators working on survivor support, responsibility, and repair.
- Transformative Justice
- Community Activism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
Amateur
Training for a bout at Madison Square Garden, Thomas Page McBee asks how violence, privilege, vulnerability, and care are made into masculinity.
- Trans Masculinity
- Patriarchy Critique
- Body Politics