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Women of Color Authors You Need to Read
According to bookstagramer Lupita.Reads, these are critical books by minorities.
Published on March 30, 2020
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre LordeI read this recently for Noname Book Club and while reading it I felt so much anger that I had not been introduced to this text when I was younger. Audre Lorde has powerful words and thoughts on seeing each other’s differences as strengths and ensuring these differences are kept in mind when thinking of equality for all. A must-read!
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Bassey IkpiThis collection of essays detailing Bassey Ikpi’s experiences living and coping with mental illness that ultimately led to a diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety is not only riveting, but it’s also essential. It challenges the notion of what mental illness looks like and how possible it is to seem like you’ve got it all together yet inside your brain is pulling you into a whirlwind of doom no one else is able to witness.
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet MockI listened to “Redefining Realness” on Scribd and I did not want to pause the audio. Janet Mock narrates this audiobook and listening to her tell her own story fills me all the joy and empowerment to celebrate womanhood.
Dominicana: A Novel
Angie CruzIn “Dominicana,” Ana (the main character), for me personally, brought to life all the stories the women in my family have told me about living in America. All the funny stories they love to tell about how they navigated life here initially without knowing the language. How triumphant they felt finally learning the language and succeeding in it. “Dominicana” is an ode to them.
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane GayThis memoir is upfront, unapologetic, genuine, bare. I identified with so many thoughts Roxane Gay writes about in terms of her body and nothing can explain what it feels to see something you’ve only thought in your head, written on a page as a truth you share too.
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria MachadoThis book is classified as a memoir, however I am certain — and I know many others have said this too — it defies what a traditional memoir should look like because it is the first of its kind: The first to intimately confront queer loving and living into normalcy in order to make room for queer thriving.