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October/November Reading Recommendations

Our October/November reading recommendations include two awesome books by Gender and Women’s Studies staff! Get into the spooky season with us with Priti Srivastava’s Bhoot Camp (2025) and cozy up with a delectable memoir, The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online & Offline (2025) by Lachrista Greco!

Bhoot Camp book cover
The Guerilla Feminist book cover

Recommended Authors and Readings from past months!

Black Crip Modern bookcover
Black Crip Modern by Jesse Waggoner
Life in Traffic book cover
Life in Traffic by Ruth Goldstein
Image of Black poet Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni
Selected Poetry
Audre Lorde
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Trash Heap Has Spoken” & “The Husband Stitch”

Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
Octavia Butler
Selected Works
Mia Mingus
Selected Works
Heather Corinna
What Fresh Hell Is This?
Nicholas Syrett
American Child Bride
Brittney Cooper
Eloquent Rage
Pernille Ipsen
My Seven Mothers
Sabrina Imbler
Author of How Far the Light Reaches
Rax King
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
Lachrista Greco
The Guerilla Feminist
Emi Koyama
The Transfeminist Manifesto
Jude Doyle
DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?

2024-2025

The Husband Stitch: Carmen Maria Machado
The Trash Heap Has Spoken: Carmen Maria Machado
The Master’s Tools: Audre Lorde
Mothers: Nikki Giovanni
Allowables: Nikki Giovanni
Vote: Nikki Giovanni
American Child Bride by Nicholas Syrett
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
The Racial Politics of Time TED TALK by Brittney Cooper

2025-2026

The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online & Offline — Lachrista Greco
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
My Seven Mothers by Pernille Ipsen
Redstocking’s Manifesto
The Woman-Identified-Woman: Radicalesbians
DILF: Did I Leave Feminism?