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Books and Articles

Kink & BDSM

The New Topping Book, Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy
The New Bottoming Book, Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy
The S&M Feminist, Clarisse Thorn
Fetish Sex: An Erotic Guide for Couples, Violet Blue
SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, Jay Wiseman
Radical Ecstasy , Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy
Sacred Kink, Lee Harrington
Dark Moon Rising: Pagan BDSM & the Ordeal Path, Raven Kaldera
The Ultimate Guide to Kink, Tristan Taormino
Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink, Lee Harrington
When Someone You Love is Kinky, Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt
Sexual Outsiders , Daniel Ortman & Richard Sprot
Safe Sane & Consensual, D Lanbridge & Meg Barker
Different Loving, William Brame, Gloria Brame & Jon Jacobs
Health Care Without Shame , Charles Moser
The Ultimate Guide to Sex & Disability, Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg & Franz Odette
Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider & the Serious Player, Joseph L. Bean
Janus, Samuel S., & Janus, Cynthia L.  (1994) Janus Report on Sexual Behavior, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Existential Kink, Carolyn Elliott, PhD 

For Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guidelines for Working with People with Kink Interests

Polyamory and Nonmonogamy

Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits, Deborah M. Anapol

Love In Abundance: A Counselor’s Advice On Open Relationships, Kathy Labriola

Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love & Intimacy with Multiple Partners, Deborah Anapol

Open: Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage, Jenny Block
What Does Polyamory Look Like? Poly Diverse Patterns of Loving & Living…, Mim Chapman

The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Pollyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures, Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy

The New Intimacy: Open-ended Marriage & Alternative Lifestyles, Ronald Mazur

The Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open Relationships, Non-monogamy & Casual Sex, Marcia Munson & Judith Stelboum (eds)

Sex, Love & Marriage in the 21st Century: The Next Sexual Revolution, Timothy Perper & Martha Cornog (eds)

The Art and Etiquette of Polyamory: A Hands-on Guide to Open Sexual Relationships, Francoise Simpere

Opening Up: A guide to Creating & Sustaining Open Relationships, Tristan Taormino

The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families, Elizabeth Sheff

Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships , Meg Barker

When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous, Elizabeth Sheff

Love, Pleasure, Gender, Sexuality and LGBTQIA+ Equity

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex Angela Chen
A Queer History of the United States for Young People Michael Bronski
A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities Mady G., J.R. Zuckerberg
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters – And How to Get It Laurie Mintz
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity C Riley Snorton
Come as You Are Dr. Emily Nagoski
Critical Nonmonogamy (links) The Critical Polyamorist
Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Joanne Barker
Couples, Gender and Power: Creating Change in Intimate Relationships Carmen Knudson-Martin
Gender Infinity Gender Infinity
Gender Spectrum Gender Spectrum
Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses Oyeronke Oyewumi
Islands of Decolonial Love Leanne Simpson
It’s Called “Polyamory”: Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships Tamara Pincus, Rebecca Hiles
Life Isn’t Binary
Barker and Iantaffi
Men Scene on Radio
More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory Franklin Veaux, Eve Rickert, Tatiana Gill
National Center for Transgender Equality NCTE
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America Lillian Faderman
Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships Tristan Taormino
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good Adrienne Maree Brown
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy Jessica Fern
Resources for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion in Christianity and Churches  Progressive Asian American Christians
Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature Deborah Miranda, Daniel Heath Justice, Qwo-Li Driskill (Editors)
The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze Morgan Lev Edward Holleb
The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton
The Gender Affirmative Model: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Supporting Transgender and Gender Expansive Children Colt Keo-Meier, Diane Ehrensaft (Editors)
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers Mark Gevisser
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community Laura Erickson-Schroth
Trans+:  Love, Sex, Romance, & Being You Kathryn Gonzales & Karen Rayne
Transgender History, second edition: The Roots of Today’s Revolution Susan Stryker
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals Stephanie A. Brill, Rachel Pepper
Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens Stephanie A. Brill, Lisa Kenney
We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies Cutcha Risling Baldy

Celebrating All Bodies, Abilities, and Neurodiversity

All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism The Autism Women’s Network and Lydia X. Z. Brown
A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability
A. Andrews
Aspergirls: Empowering Females with Asperger Syndrome Rudy Simone
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness Melanie Yergeau
Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World Deborah Reber
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century Alice Wong
Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics Don Hanlon Johnson
Embodied Social Justice Rae Johnson
Fearing the Black Body Sabrina Strings
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s John Elder Robison
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities Editors: Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman, Sarah Talbot
Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life
Cynthia Kim
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Steve Silberman
Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions Christine Caldwell, Lucia Bennett Leighton
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love Sonya Renee Taylor
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain Thomas Armstrong
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism Naoki Higashida 
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism Barry Prizant

Ecological, Economic and Global Justice

17 Principles of Environmental Justice Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Arturo Escobar
EcoFeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals & The Earth Carol J. Adams & Lori Gruen
Introduction to Community Psychology: Becoming an Agent of Change Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O’Brien, and Kaitlyn N. Ramian (Editors)
Language of Appeasement(Article) Dafina-Lazarus Stewart
Poverty and Psychology: From Global Perspective to Local Practice Stuart C Carr & Tod Sloan
Racial Ecologies Leilani Nishime, Kim D. Hester Williams
Reflections on Alfred Adler: A social exclusion perspective Hilary Silver
The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Dissident Acts) Macarena Gómez-Barris
We can’t truly protect the environment unless we tackle social justice issues, too(Article) Amal Ahmed
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health L D Green, Kelechi Ubozoh

Decoloniality, Intersectionality & Liberation

A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground Alicia Elliott
All psychologies are indigenous psychologies: Reflections on psychology in a global era[Article] Anthony J. Marsella, PhD
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism Bell Hooks
Assata: An Autobiography Assata Shakur
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge
Donald Fixico
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Patricia Hill Collins
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon
Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability
Kanika Bell, Nsenga K Burton, Stephanie Y Evans  (Editors)
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino – American Postcolonial Psychology E. J. R. David
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah
But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith, Akasha Hull (Editors)
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism Jack D. Forbes
Decolonization and Afro-Feminism Sylvia Tamale
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain
Clelia O Rodríguez
Decolonizing Dialectics George Ciccariello-Maher
Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology de Santolo
Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies Renee Linklater
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Discourse on Colonialism Aimé Césaire
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper
Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide Boaventura De Sousa Santos
For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, Michael Yellow Bird
For Indigenous Minds Only: A Decolonization Handbook Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, Michael Yellow Bird
Gather Octavia Raheem
Halos On Afros: Radical Black Feminist and Womanist Thoughts On The Divine Ebonyjanice, Nikki Blak
Hood Feminism Mikki Kendall
How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
Indigenous Canada (free online course) University of Alberta
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts
Light in the Dark/Luz En Lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality Gloria Anzaldúa
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger Lama Rod Owens
Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals Aurora Levins Morales
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Ijeoma Oluo
Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong (Article) Dr. David Campt
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Derald Wing Sue
Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Resmaa Menakem
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God Kaitlin B. Curtice
Native American Postcolonial Psychology Eduardo Duran & Bonnie Duran
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings Kimberlé Crenshaw
On the Other Side of Freedom DeRay Mckesson
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America Stacey Abrams
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing Joy a Degruy
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race Derald Wing Sue
Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
Akilah S. Richards
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Sean Coulthard
Rain of Gold Victor Villaseñor
Reenvisioning Therapy with Women of Color: A Black Feminist Healing Perspective Lani V. Jones
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma Dr. Gail Parker
Seeing in the Dark: Wisdom Works by Black Women in Depth Psychology Sharon D. Johnson Phd
Sister Outsider Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo
Subversive Self-Care: Centering Black Women’s Wellness (Article) Shanesha Brooks-Tatum
The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology Edward Bruce Bynum
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority Ellen D. Wu
The Fire Next Time James Baldwin
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Don Miguel Ruiz
The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community Malidoma Patrice Some
The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America
Wahneema Lubiano (Editor)
The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living Joseph M. Marshall
The Making of Asian America: A History Erika Lee
The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing Anneliese A. Singh
The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve Rheeda Walker, PhD
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon
This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa (Editors)
This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror Moustafa Bayoumi
Toward Psychologies of Liberation
M Watkins, H Shulman
Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements Julietta Singh
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Charlene Carruthers
Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices Editors: Lara Medina, Martha R. Gonzales
We Were Eight Years in Power
Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color Ruby Hamad
Women, Race, & Class Angela Y. Davis
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race Beverly Daniel Tatum
Why People of Color Need Spaces Without White People (Article) Kelsey Blackwell
Writings for a Liberation Psychology Igncio Martín-Baro



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