Happy Women’s History Month! This month is all about looking at the badass women, femmes, and gender nonconforming folks from history making moves 😎
While most of the books on this list are by women, there is a book buy a dude that looked so good, I had to sneak it on here.
For more books by women, you can check out my Bookshop lists on Black Women’s Essentials: The Classics and Intersectional Feminism Books.
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire
March 1
For fans of Beyoncé’s Lemonade, Warsan Shire’s poems were featured in the video. This was the first time I was introduced to her work!
Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change by Christina Barland Edmondson and Chad Brennan
March 22
She’s Unlikeable And Other Lies That Bring Women Down by Aparna Shewakramani
March 22
I binged Indian Matchmaker during quarantine with my sister. We were pretty annoyed by Aparna, but I’m interested to see a different side of her.
Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by T. Thomas Fortune
March 22
Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto
March 29
I read Dial A for Aunties last year, so I’m excited for this sequel!
Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture by Aria S. Halliday
March 29
Liberation is Lit 