Recommended Readings

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Race & Racism

  • A Race is a Nice thing to Have: A guide to being a white person or understanding the white persons in your life by Dr. Janet Helms

  • Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by: Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • Racism without Racists by: Eduardo Bonilla Silva

  • What is Internalized Racism by: Donna K Bivens

  • So you want to talk about race by: Ijeoma Oluo

  • Killing rage: Ending racism by: bell hooks

Trauma

  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to mending our hearts and bodies by: Resmaa Menakem

  • Homecoming by: Dr. Thema Bryant Davis

  • The Body Keeps The Score by: Bessel Van Der Kolk 

  • Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide for Caring for Self while Caring for Others by: Connie Burk and Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

  • It Did Not Start With You by: Mark Wolynn 

Love

  • Towards a Psychological Framework of Radical Healing in Communities of Color by: Bryana French, Jioni Lewis, Helen Neville, et al. 

  • Your Body is not an apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by: Sonya Renee Taylor

  • The Four Agreements by: Don Miguel Ruiz

  • All about love by: bell hooks

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by: Lori Gottilieb 

  • Self- Compassion by: Krisin Neff

  • The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by: Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer

LGBTQ+

  • Seeing Gender by: Iris Gottlieb

  • Gender Euphoria by: Laura Kate Dale

  • Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual who wants too much by: Jen Winston

  • Transgender History by: Susan Stryker

  • We are Everywhere by: Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown

  • Giovanni’s Room by: James Baldwin

  • Countries of Origin by: Javier Fuentes

Sex-Positive

  • The Ethical Slut by: Dossie Easton

  • The Guide to Getting it On by: Paul Joannides

  • Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Non-monogamy by: Jessica Fern

  • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

ADHD

  • How to Keep House While Drowning by: KC Davis 

  • You Mean I’m not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy? by: Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo

  • Scattered Minds by: Gabor Mate

  • ADHD is Awesome by: Penn Holderness and Kim Holderness