resources

The books shared below are a window into some of my influences, I hope they can provide inspiration or support.

Connection and Community

  • How we Show up by Mia Birdsong

  • Belonging by Toko-Pa Turner

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie

Collective Liberation

  • The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

  • My Grandfather’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Relationships and Sexuality

  • Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

  • Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

  • Becoming Cliterate by Laurie Mintz

  • Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson

Trauma

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Mindfulness

  • Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

  • https://www.tarabrach.com/

Grief

  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

  • Wintering by Katherine May