2025: Decolonial, anti-imperialist, and/or anti-carceral feminism by an author who is Black, Indigenous and/or part of the global majority
Book recommendations/suggestions for the Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 book challenge. Find your next book!
read, seed, water, feed book challenge - about prompt support posts
about prompt support posts
All of the prompt support posts (those that begin with "2025: Book written by...", for example) are organized similar to each other.
Each of these posts was created to support the Read, Seed, Water Feed book challenge on Storygraph that I am hosting. They were also created to support learning outside of the university, collective educational efforts, finding new authors to read, finding books, and more.
For each book challenge prompt, I will share the following sections:
- one or more slides with books I have read or am currently reading that I recommend for the prompt
- a list of additional books from my TBR (to-be-read) list for the prompt
- a text listing of the books that I shared in the slides
I might share one or more of the following in addition, depending on capacity and other factors:
- other supportive text as appropriate, such as countries included
- some quotes, notes, and/or reflections about one or more of the books
- links to other posts on the site where I discuss the books or prompt in more detail
I did many things to minimize hierarchy within these posts, and there will still be some things that might feel odd, such as split galleries of slides, which was a choice made to address current limitations in how the galleries work.
If interested, find bingo cards, more background on the prompts, and other reflections, on the Reading Challenge page and if on Storygraph, join the challenge.
Mostly, my goal for prompt support posts is to share books for each prompt, as suggestions and as examples. This section will be first on every post and may be skipped.
Thank you for reading.
Recommended Books
Books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt.
Read, Seed, Water, Feed 2025 reading challenge prompt and description, showing books recommended that I have read or am currently reading. All recommended books are listed lower in the post in the section “Recommended Books in a List.”
More Books from my TBR List
For some prompts, I’m trying to diversify what I read; for others, deepening my knowledge while also growing my perspective. For some prompts, there are definitely more books on my to-be-read (TBR) list than the ones I share that I have read or am currently reading. Here are some of those books:
Nonfiction
- Abolition Feminisms Vol. 1: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice (2022) edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober
- Abolition Feminisms Vol. 2: Feminist Ruptures against the Carceral State (2022) edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober
- Black and Female (2022) by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- The Black Woman: An Anthology (1970) edited by Toni Cade Bambara
- But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies (1982) edited by Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith
- Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture (2021) by Zeba Blay
- Civil Wars (1995) by June Jordan
- Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (2006) edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
- Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (2020) by Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
- Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters (2018) edited by Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt, Kim Anderson
- Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (2007) by Carole Boyce Davies
- Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
- Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (2003) by June Jordan
- Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2014) edited by Katherine McKittrick
Fiction
- Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015) edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Recommended Books in a List
As a list, books I've read or am currently reading that I recommend for this prompt:
Nonfiction
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (2021) by Erica Meiners, Gina Dent, Beth Richie, Angela Y. Davis
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption (2021) by Rafia Zakaria
Belonging: A Culture of Place (2004) by bell hooks
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (2021) by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power (2020) by Lola Olufemi
Decolonization and Afro-Feminism (2020) by Sylvia Tamale
Experiments Imagining Otherwise (2021) by Lola Olufemi
Feminism is for Everybody (2000) by bell hooks
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015) by Angela Y. Davis
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Internationalism, and Palestine (2023) by Nada Elia
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (2012) by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016) by Christina Sharpe
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning (1997) by Dorothy Roberts
Love WITH Accountability: Digging up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse (2019) by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
M Archive: After the End of the World (2018) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye (2020) by Andaiye, Alissa Trotz
Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call That Set the Americas Ablaze (2021) by LasTesis
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) by Audre Lorde
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994) by bell hooks
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition (2022) by Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (2020) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Fiction
The Salt Eaters (1980) by Toni Cade Bambara
Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) by Nalo Hopkinson.
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