Lavender Lit Society

Suggested reading list (for radical positivity in a complicated world):

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Non-Fiction
Fiction
Poetry
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Non-Fiction

Tech/Agriculture/Data

  1. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (005.7)
  2. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (303.48)
  3. Invisible Women (305.420721)
  4. Data Feminism (305.42)
  5. Braiding Sweetgrass (305.897)
  6. Internet for the People (338.7)
  7. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (352.7)

Politics/Math/History

  1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (305.5)
  2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (307.760973)
  3. Freedom is A Constant Struggle (323)
  4. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor (331.880973)
  5. The New Jim Crow (364.973)
  6. Are Prisons Obsolete? (365.973)
  7. The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers (510.9)
  8. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (526.6209)
  9. Hot, Hot Chicken (647.95768)

Linguistics/Language

  1. A Room of One’s Own (305.42)
  2. The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (411.09)
  3. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (413.028)
  4. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (427.973)
  5. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (495.11)

Spirituality/Self/Sex

  1. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy) (170)
  2. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (220.8)
  3. Coming Out as Dalit (305.5)
  4. Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy (306.770973)
  5. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (398.082)
  6. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life (HQ46.N32)

Fiction

Latinx

  1. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  2. In the Dream House
  3. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

African Diaspora

  1. Jazz
  2. Their Eyes Were Watching God
  3. Under the Udala Trees

American

  1. Oryx and Crake
  2. Stone Butch Blues
  3. Little Women
  4. Tuck Everlasting
  5. The Left Hand of Darkness
  6. The Red Tent

Asian Stories

  1. Notes of a Crocodile
  2. Pachinko
  3. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

Memoir

  1. Strong Female Character
  2. Hijab Butch Blues
  3. Just Kids

Poetry

  1. Devotions
  2. Autobiography of Red
  3. Bright Dead Things
  4. Bluest Nude
  5. Hold Your Own
  6. Life on Mars

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