The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers for February 2024.
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That’s all we can hope for from one another, right? To trust that we’ll consistently show up and do the best we can. So while I may show up a day late and a dollar short, I do show up. Filled with poetry, notes, journal entries and essays, this devastatingly brilliant debut showcases Walela Nehanda’s determination when faced with a leukemia diagnosis as a young adult and the lyricism they use to share their experiences. It’s heartrending and heartwarming at once.builds on histories of enslaved Black women to explore what an alternate contemporary U.S. may look like under similar circumstances.
Spectacularly talented writer and journalist Shayla Lawson is back with this collection of essays examining race, travel, disability, emotion, gender and more. This is a book that will enrage and engulf you, soothe and seduce you; it will have you looking at the world in liberatory new ways. Hailing from the Gulf of Carpentaria region of Australia, Waanyi writer Alexis Wright stuns with this electrifying allegory of oppression, assimilation and sovereignty amid ecological disaster. Also be sure to check out New Directions’ edition of
Urgent and empowering, this remarkable collection of essays edited by the indomitable Keisha Blain showcases some of the most significant Black women fighting for justice and liberation today. Heavy hitters such as Mariame Kaba, Alicia Garza, Andraéa LaVant, Rhea Butler and Raquel Willis take on themes of reproductive justice, healthcare, reparations, abolition, disability justice, queer rights, and so much more.
This collection of essays weaves explorations of art with violence, identity with expansiveness, separation with belonging, Los Angeles with Detroit with the world. Sloan’s reflections are robust and poetic, her writing like lucid dreaming. I was rapt with this book. In the summer of 2020, communications scholar Shardé M. Davis created #BlackInTheIvory to share her challenges as a Black woman in academia. It quickly went viral, and now she’s edited this candid and validating volume that includes contributions from students, faculty, staff and scholars from across the disciplines.
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