Ooh great list! Some recommendations :) -A Black Queer History of the United States by Darius Bost & C. Riley Snorton -How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith -Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free by Sabia Wade

• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall -Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison -Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve by Renee Bracey Sherman & Regina Mahone -The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher -Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth E. Richie, & Angela Y. Davis -White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Saira Rao & Regina Jackson -Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria -Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis -Skin, Tooth and Bone: A Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid -So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis -The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity by Kaila Adia Story -Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad -Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. -Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia

I also highly recommend Decolonization is not a metaphor by K. Wayne Yang, Eve Tuck although it’s more academic than entry level

i have an unconventional read for you Sri Gur Panth Prakash by Bhai Rattan Singh Bhangu. i’ve learned recently there are more desis on this platform that i originally thought (YAY). this book covers the history of the sikh faith as a response to when the british were trying to eradicate us. It’s been translated into fifty languages that i’m aware of and i have a pdf link for anyone who can’t find a copy (as it’s public domain and banned in india 🤓)

Fiction included because that's often an easier/more arresting starting place than a textbook. Please share recommendations for, like, entry-level white people books!

wait yes this is amazing !!