these are some of my all-time favorite nonfiction books, all of which significantly impacted my worldview & i hope do the same for you
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Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out
Aph Ko
How to Understand Your Gender
Alex Iantaffi
Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Saidiya Hartman
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Adrienne Maree Brown
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Heather Ann Thompson
A History of My Brief Body
Billy-Ray Belcourt
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
C. Riley Snorton
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
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