Trauma and HealingBooks

Rosa-Linda Fregoso reframes feminist witnessing through Mexico’s contra-feminicide movement, connecting memory, art, legal testimony, migration, and collective responsibility.

Through first-person stories, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores how desire, religion, queer life, trauma, and community shape sexual freedom across African and diasporic contexts.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs learns Black feminist survival from marine mammals, linking breath, sound, collective protection, and ecological crisis.

Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility gathers first-person writing by contemporary disabled people, bringing disability culture, media representation, embodiment, law, art, and everyday life into public view.

Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha frames disability justice as practical knowledge from sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown communities, centering collective access, care webs, and liberation where no one is left behind.

Susan Burton’s lived account connects trauma, the drug war, repeated incarceration, and reentry, then turns recovery into care and political work led by formerly incarcerated women.

Thomas Page McBee links childhood abuse, a near-fatal mugging and transition to ask how masculinity inherits violence - and how care, accountability and forgiveness might change it.