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
Queer reading list by Brown’s Gender & Sexuality Studies department: https://www.brown.edu/campus-life/support/lgbtq/graduate-student-resources/queer-theory-reading-list
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/us/black-abortion-missouri.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/opinion/anti-abortion-history.html?searchResultPosition=10
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/magazine/abortion-mississippi.html?searchResultPosition=1
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
Columbia Journal of Gender & Law
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
European Journal of Women's Studies
Frontiers: a Journal of Women Studies
Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review
Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
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 Feminist Studies in Religion
Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health
Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services
Journal of GLBT Family Studies
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Law & Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Legal Issues
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
SGP: Sexuality, Gender, and Policy Journal (Policy Studies Organization)
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
SQS: Journal of Queer Studies in Finland
Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature