INTENTIONAL READING CHALLENGE - hosted by femmenova

A book of short stories or personal essays
This also includes memoirs 
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The Visible Invisibles: Stories of Migrant Workers in Asia by Yolanda Yu, Shivaji Das

The Visible Invisibles: Stories of Migrant Workers in Asia

Yolanda Yu, Shivaji Das

226 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ejeris Dixon

208 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays gender race sociology informative 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
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

176 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

176 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative fast-paced
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Emergent Strategy #1

adrienne maree brown

403 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Viet Thanh Nguyen

210 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary poetry young adult emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
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