Resources on Gender, Race, and Sexuality

Hi everyone! I just wanted to share a list of resources you could use to learn more about gender, race, and all things intersectionality! Hope you enjoy!

Books

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijealwele: or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions 

This Bridge Called My Back

Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Although the central topic is American Abolition there are large sections addressing women’s roles in abolition and how the Abolitionist Movement affected Women’s Rights movements)

Kara Ellerby, No Shortcut to Change: An Unlikely Path to a More Gender Equitable World 

Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race

Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Adrian Shirk, And Your Daughters Shall Prophesy: Stories From the Byways of American Women and Religi

Barbara J. Fields and Karen Elise Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race 

Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

Silvia Young, My FemTruth: Scandalous Survival Stories

Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Morgan Jerkins, This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

Erin Wunker, Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life

Janet Mock, Redefining Realness

Kimberle Crenshaw, Intersectionality: Mapping the Margins

Trinh T. Minh-ha, Woman, Native, Other

Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam

Overcoming Objectification by Ann Cahill (the first chapter is my favorite)

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Amy Ellis Nutt, Becoming Nicole

Articles

Poets

Yona Vollach

Sappho 

Audre Lorde

Priya Voruganti

Nayyirah Waheed

Olivia Gatwood


Artists

Carolee Schneeman

Agnes Varda

Tracey Emin

Marina Abromovic

Billie Zangewa

Ana Mendieta

Graciela Carnevale

Frida Kahlo

Yoshko Shimada

Documentaries and Films

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé  a Netflix Documentary (Not exclusively limited to gender inequality)

Knock Down the House a Netflix Documentary

Girlhood by Liz Garbus

He Named Me Malala

A Walk to Beautiful 


Podcasts

  • Feminist Killjoys PHD (available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud)

  • Square One by Mofe A.

  • Nancy (especially episode “X&Y”)

  • Uncivil

  • Seeing White

  • MEN

  • Code Switch

  • Revisionist History

  • The Mash-Up Americans

  • Hidden Brain


Journals

Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology 

Camera Obscura 

Columbia Journal of Gender & Law

Differences

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

European Journal of Women's Studies

Feminist Media Studies 

Feminist Theory

Feminist Studies

Frontiers: a Journal of Women Studies

Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review

Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

Gender and History  

Gender & Society

Gender, Place and Culture: a Journal of Feminist Geography

Gender, Technology and Development  

GLQ: A Journal of Gay & Lesbian Studies

International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies

International Journal of Transgenderism

Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context   

JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies 

Journal of Bisexuality

Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health

Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services

Journal of Gender Studies

Journal of GLBT Family Studies

Journal of Homosexuality 

Journal of the History of Sexuality

Journal of Lesbian Studies

Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling

Journal of LGBT Youth

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 

Journal of Women's History 

Law & Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Legal Issues  

LBGT Health

LBGTQ Policy Journal [Harvard University]

LES Online: Digital Journal on Lesbian Issues

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture

Sextures

Sexualities

SGP: Sexuality, Gender, and Policy Journal (Policy Studies Organization)

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

SQS: Journal of Queer Studies in Finland

Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality:  A Review of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Law [title varies]

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature  

Transgender Health [Open Access]

Transgender Studies Quarterly

Women's History Review 

Women's Studies in Communication 

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