The Shared Bookshelf


Read with us!
Visit this page for monthly reading recommendations from our UW–Madison Gender and Women’s Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies community!
Find out what we’re reading, and share with us what you’re reading!
From our bookshelves to yours!



September Reading Recommendations
Our September reading recommendations include two newly published books by
Gender and Women’s Studies faculty!
Black Crip Modern by Dr. Jesse Waggoner and Life in Traffic by Dr. Ruth Goldstein!


Recommended Authors and Readings from past months!


Selected Poetry

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House


Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Selected Works

Selected Works

What Fresh Hell Is This?

American Child Bride

Eloquent Rage

My Seven Mothers

Author of How Far the Light Reaches

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

The Guerilla Feminist

The Transfeminist Manifesto

DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?