The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge 2025 - hosted by thefreeblackwomenslibrary

A book on body politics, body trauma, liberation, freedom or autonomy
All books added
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

Audre Lorde

77 pages • paperback • 1980

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity, and Self-Worth by Kelsey Blackwell, Christena Cleveland

Decolonizing the Body: Healing, Body-Centered Practices for Women of Color to Reclaim Confidence, Dignity, and Self-Worth

Kelsey Blackwell, Christena Cleveland

6 hours, 46 minutes • audio • 2023 user-added

nonfiction self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance by EbonyJanice Moore

All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance

EbonyJanice Moore

139 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction essays feminism race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

304 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction health memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-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

441 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction essays feminism politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self by Thema Bryant

Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self

Thema Bryant

256 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

137 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction feminism health lgbtqia+ self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Thick: And Other Essays

Tressie McMillan Cottom

4 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction essays feminism race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Harriet A. Washington

501 pages • hardcover • 2007

nonfiction health history race science challenging informative slow-paced
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Resmaa Menakem

319 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction politics psychology race self help sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced