Apart from academic literature, I’ve also been reading books, anthologies, and memoirs borrowed from the public library or from my own bookshelves which explore the diverse aspects of intersectional identities, marginalisation, systemic oppression, and activism. I’m creating this list to keep a track of the books I’ve read and to offer a resource for anybody who’s interested in exploring what’s out there. I’ll be adding to this list over the next year and a half at least, as I discover more books.
NONFICTION
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
by Sujatha Gidla
The Audre Lorde Compendium: Essays, Speeches, And Journals by Audre Lorde
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Can We All Be Feminists? edited by June Eric-Udorie
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum
by Michael McCreary
The Gender Games: The Problem with Men and Women, from Someone Who Has Been Both by Juno Dawson
Gender Queer Maia Kobabe
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class, and Culture Online edited by Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha Tynes
Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
The Mother of All Questions (Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
The Muslims are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker, Julia Scheele
Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
Squee from the Margins: Fandom and Race by Rukmini Pande
Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability edited by Scott T. Smith (Editor), José Alaniz (Editor)
Uncanny Magazine Issue Twenty-Four: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis
You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson
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Illegal by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, Giovanni Rigano
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas