Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender

9 best books like Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender (Mia McKenzie): When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Woman World, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society, Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World, Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol, No Happy Endings, The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Author	Patrisse Khan-Cullors
ISBN	1250171083

A poetic and powerful memoir about what it means to be a Black woman in America—and the co-founding of a movement that demands justice for all in the land of the free.

Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles, Patrisse Khan-Cullors experienced firsthand the...

Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

Author	Nell Irvin Painter
ISBN	1640090614

How are women, and artists, "seen" and judged by their age, race, and looks? And how does this seeing change, depending upon what is asked of the viewer? What does it mean when someone states (as one teacher does) that "you will never be an Artist"—who defines "an Artist," and all that goes with such an...

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Author	Roxane Gay
ISBN	0062413503

Powerful. Raw. Stunning writing. Pretty much everything I would expect from a collection put together by Roxane Gay.
What is it like to live in a culture where it often seems like it is a question of when, not if, a woman will encounter some kind of sexual violence?
This is book about rape and...

Woman World

Author	Aminder Dhaliwal
ISBN	1770463356

The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men

With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0802829961

One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be "feminine." Sayers kept in mind that she was first of all a human being and aimed to be true not so much to her gender as to her humanity. The role of both men and...

Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

Author	Noah Strycker
ISBN	0544558146

Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first person to see more than half the world’s 10,000 species of birds in one year.

In 2015, Noah Strycker set himself a lofty goal: to become the first person to see half the world’s birds in one year....

Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol

Author	Ruby Warrington
ISBN	0062869035

Would life be better without alcohol?

It’s the nagging question more and more of us are finding harder to ignore, whether we have a “problem” with alcohol or not. After all, we yoga. We green juice. We meditate. We self-care. And yet, come the end of a long work day, the start of a weekend,...

No Happy Endings

Author	Nora McInerny Purmort
ISBN	0062792407

The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.

Life has...

The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life

Author	Janice Kaplan
ISBN	0525955062

In this New York Times bestseller, Janice Kaplan spends a year living gratefully and transforms her marriage, family life, work and health. Her pioneering reseach was praised in People and Vanity Fair and hailed on TV shows including Today, The O’Reilly Factor, and CBS’s The Talk.

On...