Trauma and HealingBooks

A decolonial feminist theory of witnessing that follows activist mothers, artists, filmmakers, courts, and communities resisting feminicidal violence in Mexico.

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.

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’s memoir examines violence, trauma, forgiveness, and becoming a man from a trans masculine perspective.