Reads for the Rest of Us
Happy June! Happy Pride! Happy Caribbean-American Heritage Month! Happy summer! Wherever you are and however you spend your month, I hope you are able to slow down, rest and enjoy life with a good book.
Reads for the Rest of Us
Featuring some cool science titles and more. Expand your mind and always be learning, friends!
Reads for the Rest of Us
With help from Violet, I picked the most exciting poetry collections 2025-2026 by women and trans poets of color.
Reads for the Rest of Us
Check out the 25 books we’ve chosen to highlight this month, with special shoutouts to friends and colleagues with books releasing as well.
Reads for the Rest of Us
Check out We Are Each Other’s Liberations: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Haymarket Books, 2025), and the 24 books releasing this month.
Reads for the Rest of Us
This month, I reintroduce the column and suggest the 28 books that Violet and I are most excited about.
Reads for the Rest of Us
Violet and I chose the 25 books by women and trans people of color, and by writers of the global majority, that we're most excited about in January 2026.
Violet and I chose our most anticipated feminist books of 2026. There's something here for everyone, which ones of the 94 will you choose?
The panic over pronouns isn't about ideology - it's about power, identity, and who gets to decide what counts as "normal."
You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read this one. You know, the one for the rest of us.
An early review of Stephanie Allen's 2019 book Tonic and Balm that was featured in Medium Books.
Community education for liberation
Violet and I chose our most anticipated feminist books of 2026. There's something here for everyone, which ones of the 94 will you choose?
The panic over pronouns isn't about ideology - it's about power, identity, and who gets to decide what counts as "normal."
This resource guide accompanies my article "Yes, You Do Have Pronouns." It includes popular press articles, peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and websites, all vetted by me (an academic librarian with 20+ years of experience).
You’ve read the other “Best of” lists—now read this one. You know, the one for the rest of us.
December’s 14 titles are great for gifting or curling up with on a cold winter’s night. Wishing you all a lovely holiday season!
And what I’m doing instead.
The feminists are heading to NWSA in Puerto Rico this month! And we're reading these books.
In a time when we need it the most, these 20 books will provide the knowledge, respite, ideas, empathy and rage we need right now to continue the work of liberation.
After a week of COVID, I am salty and antsy to get moving and try something new. What good trouble can I get into?
Check out the top 25 books that Ms. intern, Violet Pandya, and I are excited about this month!
Check out the top 25 books that Ms. intern, Violet Pandya, and I are excited about this month!
An early review of Stephanie Allen's 2019 book Tonic and Balm that was featured in Medium Books.