Below you will find books infused with profound introspection. Titles that have taught me how to trust myself, talk to myself, treat myself and traverse uneven ground alongside my people. Lean in and learn from the life lessons and sacred stories of these luminary authors.
Miss Major Speaks / ToshioMeronek, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
A Thousand Ways To Die / Trymaine Lee
Surviving Paris / Robin Allison Davis
Mounted / Bitter Kalli
Big Freedia / Big Freedia
I Lived To Tell The Story / Tamika D. Mallory
The Man of Many Fathers / Roy Wood Jr.
Everyday I’m Hustling / Vivica A. Fox
From The Ashes / Sarah Jaffe
The Story Of What Is Broken Is Whole / Aurora Levins Morales
We Will Be Jaguars / Nemonte Nenquimo, Mitch Anderson
Written In The Waters / Tara Robertson
Traveling While Black and Lesbian / Khanyisa Mnyaka
Disability Intimacy / Alice Wong
Affirmative Acts / June Jordan
Coming Home / Brittney Griner
How to Say Babylon / Safiya Sinclair
Bless The Blood / Walela Nahanda
She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped The World / Marral Shamshiri & Sorcha Thomson
This Is What I Know About Art / Kimberly Drew
This Here Flesh Cole / Arthur Riley
Nobody Needs To Know / Pidgeon Pagonis
My Broken Language / Quiara Alegria Hudes
Unbound / Tarana Burke
Toufah / Toufah Jallow
The Last Nomad / Shugri Said Salh
Bamboozled By Jesus / Yvonne Orji
This Child Will Be Great / Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
No Ashes in the Fire / Darnell L. Moore
Find Another Dream / Maysoon Zayid