Some current reads
Since many of you asked for this, here it is. If you want to give me book recommendations based on these lists please do.
CPTSD:
Stephanie Foo: What My Bones Know
Natalie Gutierrez: The Pain We Carry
Octavia Butler: Kindred
Pete Walker: Complex PTSD, From Surviving To Thriving
Brené Brown: The Gifts Of Imperfection
Brené Brown: Daring Greatly
Michelle Zauner: Crying In H Mart
Adrienne Maree Brown: Emergent Strategy
Janelle Monae: The Memory Librarian
Jessica Fern: Polysecure
Diane Poole Heller: The Power Of Attachment
Marshall Rosenberg: Nonviolent Communication
David Abram: The Spell Of the Sensuous
Rumi: Pocket Rumi
A Critique Of Ally Politics zine (Excerpt from Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism)
Neurospiciness:
Sonny Jane Wise: The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook Of DBT Skills
Eric Garcia: We're Not Broken
Gina Pera: Is It You, Me, Or Adult ADD?
Adrienne Maree Brown: Pleasure Activism
Nedra Glover Tawwab: The Set Boundaries Workbook
Sari Solden, Michelle Frank: A Radical Guide For Women With ADHD
Disability Justice:
Alice Wong: Disability Visibility
Keah Brown: The Pretty One
Adrienne Maree Brown: Pleasure Activism
A Critique Of Ally Politics zine (Excerpt from Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism)
Climate Change:
David Abram: The Spell Of the Sensuous
Joanna Macy: Active Hope
Boxer Codex
Rumi: Pocket Rumi
Steve Taylor: The Fall
On my list to read in the future
Here are recommendations I found in articles, reddit, YouTubers. Please don't @ me with this..peer reviewed factual stuff only, I do have a journalism and sociology degree and infectious diseases were never my focus of coverage. I did read book reviews before putting them on my list too.
CPTSD:
Hannah Arendt: On Violence
Hannah Arendt: On Revolution
Maria Ressa: How To Stand Up To a Dictator
R.F. Kuang: Yellowface
Amanda Montell: The Magical Age Of Overthinking
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World And Me
Bell Hooks: All About Love
Neurospiciness:
Jessica McCabe: How To ADHD
Elaine Aron: The Highly Sensitive Person
Ellyce Fulmore: Keeping Finance Personal
Climate Change:
Joanna Macy: World As Lover, World As Self
Max Liboiron: Pollution Is Colonialism
Friend recommendations, send me stuff! I like history, sci fi, fantasy, sociology textbooks, anthropology, memoir, poetry, science journalism
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Neurospiciness:
Disability Justice:
Climate Change:
Racism (fiction only please):
Anitismo or similar animism religions (no white authors please)