This list is probably going to grow (ALOT)- please feel free to comment and add your ideas for recommended reading or send your suggestions to malintzine@gmail.com
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities – Ching-In Chen (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor), and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor); Andrea Smith (preface)
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide – Andrea Smith
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism – Daisy Hernandez
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Loose Woman: Poems – Sandra Cisneros
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities John D’Emilio
Crip Theory Robert McRuer
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
Reading Chican@ Like a Queer – Sandra Soto
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color – Cherie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation – Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating.
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza – Gloria Anzaldua
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches – Audre Lorde
The Black Unicorn: Poems – Audre Lorde
¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement – Maylei Blackwell
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010 – Cherie Moraga
Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders – Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings – Alma M. Garcia
Chicana Falsa and How to be a Chicana Role Model – Michelle Serros
Women, Race and Class – Angela Davis
Living Chicana Theory Carla Trujillo
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa Rigoberto Gonzalez
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock
MARIPOSAS: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry Emanuel Xavier
For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly Yosimar Reyes
Before Night Falls: A Memoir Reinaldo Arenas
Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Performance Adelina Anthony and Lorenzo Herrera
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue Leslie Feinburg
Virgins, Guerrillas, and Locas: Gay Latinos Writing about Love Jaime Cortez
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About Carla Trujillo
Chulito: A Novel Charles Rice-Gonzalez
Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader Michael Hames-Garcia
Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation Sherry Wolf
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism – Angela Davis
Methodology of the Oppressed – Chela Sandoval
The Decolonial Imaginary – Emma Perez
Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature – Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana S. Rivero
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity – Chandra Mohanty
Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging – Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber.
A fat girl’s guide to life – Wendy Shanker
Pedagogies of Crossing: meditations on feminism, sexual politics, memory, and the sacred – Jacqui Alexander
Racial Formation in the United States – Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures – Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 – Kimberly Springer
The Straight Mind – Monique Wittig
Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology – INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment – Patricia Hill Collins
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought – Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border – Eithne Luibheid
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law – Dean Spade
The Legacy of Conquest – Patricia Limerick
Race, Reform and Rebellion – Manning Marable
Autobiography of Angela Davis – Angela Davis
This week in all of it’s challenges and this blog has stirred up my anger, hurt, trauma. I was biking to work this morning thinking about how I feel a lacking in language to express my perspctive through informed experince. I said to myself I don’t want to go back to school, buy I wish I had a reading list….and here it is. Thank you