Recs if you like Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals...

When you think of Anarchy, you may think of chaos, lawlessness, or just a white dude in a ski-mask tossing molotov cocktails. But that’s not what anarchy is. That’s the propaganda. Anarchy is a political philosophy based in the abolition of the state, in horizontal rather than hierarchical power, in mutual aid, and networks of care. When I learned how much I didn’t know about anarchy it blew my mind. Anarchists have been at the core of so much of modern history, and I want to share it with you.

history you probably didn't learn in school

Books about feminine power and rage. Inspiring, enraging, validating. Let us rise, my sisters.

In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)

My third instalment of queer classics - this time historical events that had gay written all over it!

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

Key texts in Caribbean and Black/feminist thought.

A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review

This is a collection of books from @bisexualbookshelf that examine power, history, and liberation across interconnected struggles.

the books that are most interesting, inventive, and complex for the girlhood studies grad student in me. whose “girlhood” are we talking about? i’m thinking of girlhood as a liminal, queer, socially constructed, often traumatic, uncanny space.

academic & theory-heavy Black Feminist, Queer, & Critical Race texts. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!

according to the New York Times

a mix of nonfiction theory and culture writing and feminist novels

Works recommended in Sara Ahmed’s The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (2023)

This list includes all works from the recommended reading list as well as feminist and anti-racist works cited in the text.

The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times

Everything we've read in Queer Feminist Comrade Book Club

books that are Doing Something inventive or interesting with language and perhaps are also crossing/muddling genre or use multimedia

Some books I’ve read recently have mentioned numbers running and/or the policy racket, and I’d like to learn more. Suggestions welcome!