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

A book by a revolutionary, community activist, political organizer or abolitionist
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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

320 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by adrienne maree brown

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

Emergent Strategy #4

adrienne maree brown

175 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction business informative reflective medium-paced
The Black Unicorn: Poems by Audre Lorde

The Black Unicorn: Poems

Audre Lorde

136 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith, Juno Mac

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights

Molly Smith, Juno Mac

278 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

388 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative 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
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

200 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history reflective slow-paced
Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

Your Name Is a Song

Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow

40 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction childrens emotional slow-paced
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

Carole Boyce Davies

344 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced