Books like 'How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation'
Readers who enjoyed How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation by Libba Bray, Malinda Lo, Junauda Petrus, Jodi Picoult, Rebecca Roanhorse, Dana Schwartz, Jonny Sun, Sabaa Tahir, Jennifer Weiner, Kate Linnea Welsh, Jacqueline Woodson, John Paul Brammer, Carolyn DeWitt, Lauren Duca, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alex Gino, K.C. Green, Hebh Jamal, Dylan Marron, Justin Mikita, Javier Muñoz, Rosie O'Donnell, Jason Reynolds, Jeffrey Rowland, Karuna Riazi, Maya Rupert, Dan Sinker, Ali Stroker, Shaina Taub & Daniel J. Watts also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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When Aidan Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl's room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing. After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of life that didn't fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life... -
![The Tradition by Jericho Brown]()
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal... -
![This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson]()
This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love... -
![Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernández Castillo]()
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernández Castillo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this lyrical, imagistic debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo creates a nuanced narrative of life before, during, and after crossing the US/Mexico border... -
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![Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell]()
Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhiting Award winner Brontez Purnell’s debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News ). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco...Categorized as:
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![Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg]()
Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAllen Ginsberg’s poems, from “Howl” to “Kaddish” to “The Fall of America,” have influenced generations of writers and made him a defining figure of the twentieth century. Ginsberg’s Collected Poems, first published in 1984, and expanded in 1997, was originally thought to contain all of his poetic work... -
![Los sorrentinos by Virginia Higa]()
Los sorrentinos by Virginia Higa
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHace poco más de un siglo, una familia partió de Sorrento y se instaló en Mar del Plata para abrir un hotel y luego una trattoria cerca de la playa. Podría tratarse de una familia cualquiera de las tantas que inmigraron por esos años, pero esta tuvo una participación especial en la cultura argentina: inventó los sorrentinos, una pasta que hoy se come en todo el país... -
![The Doomsday Date by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé]()
The Doomsday Date by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn exclusive new World Book Day story from the bestselling author of ACE OF SPADES, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. The hilarious, heart-soaring story of one night, two friends and a list that will change everything, perfect for teen readers.On the day before the world is meant to end, Sanjeet dyes his hair pink.. -
![So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo]()
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsIn this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divideIn So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a...Categorized as:
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![Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha]()
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWinner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryThese poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living one’s entire life in Gaza, making a life for one’s family and raising a family in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack...Categorized as:
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![The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye]()
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTrans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarised 'debate', which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows...Categorized as:
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![Untenrum frei by Margarete Stokowski]()
Untenrum frei by Margarete Stokowski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWar es das jetzt mit der sexuellen Revolution? Sind wir unendlich liberal, weil mit nackten Brüsten für Tierfutter und Baumärkte geworben wird? Mitnichten, sagt Margarete Stokowski. Es gilt auch noch im 21. Jahrhundert, Machtstrukturen aufzusprengen, über Sexualität zu sprechen und über Geschlechterrollen, die wir mit riesigem Aufwand spielen... -
![What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon]()
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.Anti-fatness is everywhere...Categorized as:
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![Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon]()
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBeyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not in black and white, but in full color. Taking from their own experiences as a gender-nonconforming artist, they show us that gender is a malleable and creative form of expression. The only limit is your imagination...Categorized as:
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![Go Ahead In The Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib]()
Go Ahead In The Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHow does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album, they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious record, We Got It from Here . .Categorized as:
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![Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom]()
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNamed a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review , Chicago Tribune , Time , and The GuardianAs featured by The Daily Show , NPR , PBS , CBC , Time , VIBE , Entertainment Weekly , Well-Read Black Girl , and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" ( Publishers Weekly ) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and... -
![The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole]()
The Skin We're In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power by Desmond Cole
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists...Categorized as:
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![Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho]()
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 26 ratings“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations...Categorized as:
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![The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib]()
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Willis-Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us...Categorized as:
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![Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses]()
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA groundbreaking resource for fiction writers, teachers, and students, this manifesto and practical guide challenges current models of craft and the writing workshop by showing how they fail marginalized writers, and how cultural expectations inform storytelling... -
![Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd]()
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPerfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation.Palestine is a microcosm of the on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified...Categorized as:
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![One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad]()
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFrom award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human... -
![Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim, Jesmyn Ward]()
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim, Jesmyn Ward
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature...Categorized as:
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![Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson]()
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe“A vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals… It's both a cause for hope, and a call to arms...Categorized as:
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![A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota by Taiyon Coleman, Heid E. Erdrich]()
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota by Taiyon Coleman, Heid E. Erdrich
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA 2020 selection of One Book, One Minnesota!"Reading this book in community offers some Minnesotans the opportunity to see their experiences broadly shared and others a chance to educate themselves―and to discover ways to act on their convictions...Categorized as:
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![The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama]()
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratings#1 NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2022 - In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world...Categorized as:
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![Dark Days by James Baldwin]()
Dark Days by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world... -
![My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay]()
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAt the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story...Categorized as:
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![Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman]()
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda GormanFormerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, Amanda Gorman’s remarkable new collection reveals an energizing and unforgettable voice in American poetry. Call Us What We Carry is Gorman at her finest...Categorized as:
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![Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay]()
Sprache und Sein by Kübra Gümüşay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKübra Gümüşay beschreibt wie Sprache unser Denken prägt und unsere Politik bestimmt. „Ein beeindruckendes Buch, poetisch und politisch zugleich.“ Margarete StokowskiDieses Buch folgt einer Sehnsucht: nach einer Sprache, die Menschen nicht auf Kategorien reduziert. Nach einem Sprechen, das sie in ihrem Facettenreichtum existieren lässt...Categorized as:
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