20 Gender Theory/Gender Studies books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed
• The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions by Paula Gunn Allen
• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
• Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101 by b. binaohan
• The Crunk Feminist Collection edited by Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, & Robin M. Boylorn
• Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Heath Fogg Davis
• Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
• Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
• Radicalizing Her: Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan
• White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
• But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women’s Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull
• Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson
• Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherríe Moraga & Gloria Anzaldúa
• Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism edited by Bushra Rehman
• I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
• Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton