Reading List

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What follows is an incomplete and ever-evolving list of suggested readings. These are books and publications that I have learned from (and possibly some I have yet to learn from). I highly encourage accessing these works either through your public library (which likely has free audio books as well) or purchasing directly from respective publishers in order to maximize support of the author(s). They are listed in no particular order and there are genre overlaps. Disclosure: I have been interviewed by some authors.

FEMINISM

The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly
Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
To Those Who Have Confused You To Be A Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online by Alia Dastagir
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

HISTORY

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History or Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History or Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent by Harriet A. Washington
Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent by Harriet A. Washington
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger
Policing the Womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood by Michele Goodwin
Policing the Womb: invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood by Michele Goodwin
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Undue Burden: A Black Woman Physician on Being Christian and Proabortion in the Reproductive Justice Movement by DeShawn Taylor, MD
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti
The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right's Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion by Robin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo
The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access and Practical Support by Robin Marty
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood by Grace E. Howard