FP Staff List: Celebrating WE TOO with essential movement literature
WE TOO: ESSAYS ON SEX WORK AND SURVIVAL is now available wherever books are sold! This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there’s never been a better time to fight for justice. As WE TOO joins the celebrated canon of feminist must-reads, the FP team wanted to generate a list of the movement literature that’s influenced our lives, just like WE TOO will inspire its future readers.
Emergent Strategy
by adrienne marie brown (AK Press)
adrienne marie brown's work urges us to consider politics and activism as something fluid, pleasurable, and ever-evolving, not something isolating and constantly difficult. In today's world where burnout and despair are rampant, I find her insight to be especially useful.
—Jisu
Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde (Crossing Press)
Audre Lorde's classic writings construct activism from deep engagement with social and material conditions, and continue to serve as one of our most powerful reminders that the personal is indeed political.
—Amy
This Bridge Called My Back
edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa (SUNY Press)
Essential feminist literature even forty years later, this anthology compiles personal essay, poetry, and more to explore the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
—Lauren
Living for Change
by Grace Lee Boggs (U of Minnesota Press)
A penetrating memoir by a legendary activist and feminist which reminds us today that every struggle for justice and rights is interconnected with another, and that forging solidarity across class, racial, and national boundaries is more important than ever.
—Jackie
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (South End Press / Duke University Press)
Essential reading that asks us to rethink social justice and movement building both within and outside the nonprofit model. This urgent, incisive collection includes essays from activists and scholars including Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Tiffany Lethabo King, and Dylan Rodríguez.
—Rachel
Colonize This!
edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman (Seal Press)
This timeless collection centers first-person accounts of young women of color who offer much-needed perspectives on the future of feminism.
—Lucia
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis (Seven Stories Press)
In this exploratory read, Angela Davis makes the case for prison abolition and asks us to imagine a world devoid of capital punishment.
—Yannise
Critical Race Theory
edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas (The New Press)
From Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins" to Harris's "Whiteness as Property," this book contains the major theoretical and legal writings that have transformed the way people think about the American legal system as a racialized structure—and formed the scholarly movement known as Critical Race Theory.
—Nick
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
edited by Natalie West, with Tina Horn
Writing across topics such as homelessness, motherhood, and toxic masculinity, We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival gives voice to the fight for agency and accountability across sex industries. With contributions by leading voices in the movement such as Melissa Gira Grant, Ceyenne Doroshow, Audacia Ray, femi babylon, April Flores, and Yin Q, this anthology explores sex work as work, and sex workers as laboring subjects in need of respect—not rescue.
—FP Staff
Additional FP titles to add to your movement-literature TBR!
