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  • Build Yourself a Boat

    by Camonghne Felix

    Build Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.

  • The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3

    Edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

    A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.

  • On My Way To Liberation

    by H. Melt
    How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a gender nonconforming body moving through the...

  • Black Queer Hoe

    by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
    A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual freedom and sexual exploitation.

  • Call Them by Their True Names

    by Rebecca Solnit
    Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

  • Women and the American Labor Movement

    by Philip S. Foner

    A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.

  • Feminist Freedom Warriors

    Edited by Linda E. Carty and Chandra Talpade Mohanty

    A collection of compelling narratives highlighting the struggles of feminist warriors whose voices are too often marginalized.

  • The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2

    Edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, et al.
    A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

  • How We Get Free

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    "If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective Statement

  • My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

    by Aja Monet
    Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement/gentrification, racism, and sexism.

  • The Mother of All Questions

    by Rebecca Solnit
    Rebecca Solnit’s timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.

  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    by Don Lash
    Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    by Betsy Hartmann
    With a new preface, this feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries.

  • Song of the Stubborn One Thousand

    by Peter Shapiro
    An account of the successful strike by mainly Mexican women workers at the largest plant in Watsonville, California.

  • Disposable Domestics

    by Grace Chang
    This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

  • Undivided Rights

    by Marlene Gerber Fried, Elena Gutiérrez, et al.
    Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.

  • Bananeras

    by Dana Frank
    Women banana workers—bananeras—are waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    by Angela Y. Davis
    Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

  • Women and Socialism (Revised and Updated Edition)

    by Sharon Smith
    A socialist perspective on women's oppression and liberation, exploring the connection between women's rights and equality for all.

  • Men Explain Things To Me

    by Rebecca Solnit
    A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word “mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.

  • Clara Zetkin

    by Clara Zetkin
    Essays and speeches from 1889–1933, long unavailable in the US, on women's equality, labor, peace, and socialism.

  • Alexandra Kollontai

    by Cathy Porter
    Kollotai was a brilliant and passionate defender of the ideals of the Russian revolution and women's liberation.

  • Marxism and the Oppression of Women

    by Lise Vogel
    Decades after initial publication, Vogel's book remains an essential contribution to the development of a materialist theory of gender oppression.

  • Marx on Gender and the Family

    by Heather Brown
    Marx has long been accused of not taking women's issues seriously. Heather Brown sets the record straight.