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Guided by my own politics of consumption, the links lead to either free readings or ways to purchase the books with an independent bookstore that aligns with my own feminist politics. I do not receive any commission. Some of my favorite bookstores include:
Reparations Club (Los Angeles, U.S): Black queer woman owned bookstore
Octavia’s Bookshelf (Los Angeles, U.S): Black woman owned bookstore
Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore (New York City, U.S): Worker-owned activist center and feminist bookstore
Glad Day Bookshop (Toronto, Canada): The oldest queer bookstore in the world
Left Bank Books Collective (Seattle, U.S): Collectively owned and operated by its workers
一拳書館 Book Punch (Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong): Bookstore and gathering space for political discussions
女書店 Fembooks (Taipei, Taiwan): Feminist bookstore and independent publisher founded by women's rights activists
Black Feminism
Black Feminism
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) by Audre Lorde
Black Feminist Thought (1990) by Patricia Hill Collins
Women, Race & Class (1981) by Angela Y. Davis
Left of Karl Marx (2008) by Carole Boyce Davies
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (2016) by Sarah Haley
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2020) by Saidiya Hartman
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) by bell hooks
In the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe (Christina Sharpe in conversation with Hazel Carby, Kaiama Glover, Saidiya Hartman, Arthur Jafa, and Alex Weheliye)
Black Feminist Writers and Palestine (2023) by Black Women Radicals Featuring remarks from: Clarissa Brooks, Angela Y. Davis, Breya Johnson, Briona Simone Jones, and Jaimee A. Swift
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book (1987) by Hortense J. Spillers
Gender, Labor, and Anti-work
Gender, Labor, and Anti-work
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism (2021) by Heather Berg
The Ruptures Of American Capital by (2006) Grace Kyungwon Hong
Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (2024) by Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam
Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (2009) by Jennifer Jihye Chun
The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015) by Lisa Lowe
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (2011) by Kathi Weeks
Work: Capitalism, Economics, Resistance by CrimethInc, an Ex-Workers' Collective
ProMomme: A Sex Worker’s Guide to Parenting by Sex Workers Outreach Project Los Angeles
Sex Work as Work and Sex Work as Anti-Work by Hacking//Hustling
Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (2023) by Elena Shih
Disability Justice
Disability Justice
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) by Jasbir K. Puar
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Paperback (2018) by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid (2021) by Shayda Kafai
Black Disability Politics (2022) by Sami Schalk
Feminist, Queer, Crip (2013) by Alison Kafer
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire (2024) by Alice Wong
Queer Diaspora, Queer Asia, and Queer of Color Critique
Queer Diaspora, Queer Asia, and Queer of Color Critique
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? (1997) by Cathy J. Cohen
Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2003) by Roderick Ferguson
Queers of Color and The Performance of Politics (1999) by José Esteban Muñoz
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (2003) by Martin F. Manalansan
Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (2018) by Gayatri Gopinath
Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (2021) BY Howard Chiang
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