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Sexual & Reproductive Justice + Health Books

Books about sexual & reproductive justice + health. Including abortion, contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, kink, sexuality, STIs, and more. The term reproductive justice is from SisterSong and is inherently an intersectional, political, and affirming framework. BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled perspectives highlighted.

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You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion

Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win

Abortion Pill Zine: A Community Guide to Misoprostol & Mifepristone

Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve

HIV/AIDS Nonfiction Books

by violet.booklover

28 books

Books about HIV/AIDS. Both contemporary and historical. Emphasis on intersectionality.

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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Fight AIDS!: How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

Niche History: HIV/AIDS

by MoonyReads

50 books

Books that focus on the AIDS epidemic (mostly US, mostly the 80s-90s - though not exclusively). This includes history, sociology, cultural criticism of the time, and even fiction. This is such an important era to understand modern politics - especially queer politics and the LGBTQ+ community

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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

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