I have a friend who's an older black woman and who I talk to about politics and the state of the world sometimes, she trusts my take on stuff and I want to suggest anything other than Michelle Obamas autobiography which she currently has.

She's a teacher, so bonus points for BIPOC educator authors

  • FuckItNewName [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    To preface: a lot of my experience with BIPOC women authors is from an education background

    Audre Lorde has both excellent poetry and well-written radical essays. She was a black lesbian and wrote a lot about that particular intersectional perspective.

    bell hooks has been a major inspiration in my journey as a feminist

    We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love is a great book in education specifically

    Some other authors/groups off the top of my head:

    • Gloria Ladson-Billings (educational lens, equity and cultural interface of education, critical theory)
    • Combahee River Collective (released a statement worth reading, interesting history there)
    • Louise Erdrich (poetry, novels, mostly fiction, centers indigenous experiences)
    • Angie Thomas (YA novelist)
    • Kimberlé Crenshaw (coined the term “intersectionality”)