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The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom by Erica Meiners, Jill Petty, Alice Kim

The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom

Erica Meiners, Jill Petty, Alice Kim

250 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang

Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

Grace Chang

256 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction feminism gender challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

391 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction essays nature science informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad

Washington Bullets

Vijay Prashad

162 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction essays history politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

104 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt

S/He

Minnie Bruce Pratt

192 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir reflective medium-paced
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Earthseed #1

Octavia E. Butler

299 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

5.0butch's review
fiction dystopian speculative fiction challenging dark tense medium-paced
Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula

Toni Morrison

208 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0butch's review
fiction classics historical literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The Black Trans Prayer Book by Dane Figueroa Edidi, J. Mase III

The Black Trans Prayer Book

Dane Figueroa Edidi, J. Mase III

231 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell by Marta Russell, Keith Rosenthal

Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Marta Russell, Keith Rosenthal

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0butch's review
nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced