International Women’s Day Reading List

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Narratives that reclaim women’s role in the resistance against systemic oppression are stories worth sharing. In honor of International Women’s Day, we’ve compiled a list of 8 must-read books that honour women’s autonomy and liberation. Happy Reading!

with all the girlboss & saviour & carceral & essentialist posts today, thinking about feminism that saved me - one that rejects racial capitalism, gendered relations from work to home, state & imperial violence, policing of gender & sexual binaries.

Happy revolutionary #IWD2022

— Harsha Walia (@HarshaWalia) March 8, 2022

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Author: adrienne marie brown

“Our radical imagination is a tool for decolonization, for reclaiming our right to shape our lived reality.” Re-reading adrienne marie brown's Pleasure Activism a roadmap for the future I want to live in

— Genevieve Hudson (she/they) (@genhudson) June 9, 2020

Care Work 

Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“Love is an action is when we strategize to create cross-disability access spaces. When we refuse to abandon each other. When we, as disabled people, fight for the access needs of sibling crips.” — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work

— jane shi | 皮爬高 (@pipagaopoetry) April 12, 2021

Bless the daughter raised by a voice in her head: poems

Author: Warsan Shire

Very excited to reveal the cover for Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, the new collection from @warsan_shire, celebrated collaborator on @Beyonce's Lemonade. Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience, available to pre-order now: https://t.co/1IBWlZRzvP pic.twitter.com/k2BmCXTDkO

— Waterstones (@Waterstones) June 30, 2021

People Change

Author: Vivek Shraya 

We're revisiting some of our most popular posts & community achievements of 2021.

Vivek Shraya's upcoming book People Change explores the concept of change as survival mechanism. Find out what she has to say about the nature of change during the pandemic https://t.co/klDqTuA66f pic.twitter.com/r5EOKPh6hn

— UCalgary Arts (@UCalgaryArts) December 28, 2021

Know My name: A Memoir 

Author: Chanel Miller

“Do not become the ones who hurt you. Stay tender with your power. Never fight to injure, fight to uplift. Fight because you know that in this life, you deserve safety, joy, and freedom. Fight because it is your life. Not anyone else’s.”

— Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

— Brandi Thompson (@awesomebrandi) January 2, 2022

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Author: Angela Davis

“Angela Davis: An Autobiography” is the rare book that even almost 50 years later feels timely and relevant. Maybe too relevant, considering how little has changed in the interim. https://t.co/K9gLp10d1U

— Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) January 17, 2022

All About Love: New Visions

Author: bell hooks

one of my favourite excerpts from 'all about love' by bell hooks pic.twitter.com/FucSc7ATSJ

— ☆彡 (@thepluralofu) February 17, 2022

Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age

Author: Nora Loreto

I read Nora Loreto's "Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age," a detailed, smart, challenging-in-the-best-possible-way book so I'm looking forward to "Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic." Loreto is a force. https://t.co/oGyOGVd7uy

— Tabatha Southey 🇺🇦 (@TabathaSouthey) November 30, 2021

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