The Free Black Women's Library Reading Challenge - hosted by emilyhays

LGBTQ author and/or content - non fiction
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

Alice Walker

416 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
The Body is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

165 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart by Alicia Garza

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

Alicia Garza

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics race emotional informative reflective slow-paced
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

Samantha Irby

275 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir funny lighthearted medium-paced
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

229 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Audre Lorde

264 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

7 hours, 32 minutes • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism by Audre Lorde
The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
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Audre Lorde

The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

Audre Lorde

9 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging reflective medium-paced
Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

Black Girl, Call Home

Jasmine Mans

245 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet Mock

Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me

Janet Mock

256 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced