2025
A booklist for this year's events.
Happy reading and listening!
Crafting Awareness - The Faces of our Families - Labels: Impact on Mixed Belonging - Intersectionality and Judaism
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities by The work of a queer autistic scholar who played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity and the conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory.
Queens of Geek by Three friends, two love stories, one convention: this fun, feminist love letter to geek culture is all about fandom, friendship, and finding the courage to be yourself.
One Killer Problem by A darkly funny and thoroughly queer mystery thriller with a touch of camp.
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging by An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds.
Tell Me Who You Are by On a gap year, Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi recount their experiences talking to people from all walks of life about race and identity on a cross-country tour of America.
Color Me In by Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom's family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time.
Stone Butch Blues by Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
Black, White and Jewish by The author attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol—and offers a new look at the challenge of personal identity.
Illustrated Black History by A collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers--famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more, with biographical reflections.
Strange Fruit, Volume I by A collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity.
Film & Media in South Asia - Motherhood Across Cultures - Gentrification & Art
New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop by A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.
My So-Called Bollywood Life by The perfect timepass for both the Bollywood-obsessed and filmi (melodrama) novices.
50 Films that Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015 by Looks at the modern classics that have redefined Hindi cinema.
Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences - a Reader by Examines the meaning and practice of mothering/motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives.
Pregnant While Black by Drawing on over twenty years of experience working in obstetrics and gynecology to offer a primer on Black pregnancies and how to better care for them.
Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club by A story of motherhood and the thin line between right and wrong.
Knocked Down by A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited, commitment-phobic Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids.
Hollow City by Reporting from the frontlines of gentrification in San Francisco's Mission District, the author deplores the skyrocketing rents and corporate buy-outs.
Street Art San Francisco by Showcases more than three decades of street art in San Francisco's legendary Mission District.
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies by This urbanite's guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.
Food as Stories - Allyship...Attainable? - Self Defense & Empathy - Unmasking Masculinity
Hungry Hearts by Explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.
Our Brave Foremothers by Inspired by her own foremothers’ legacies and the friendships formed throughout her life, Rozella Kennedy centers and celebrates the stories of 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous women—both famous and little-known—who changed the course of US history.
Courageous Discomfort by An empowering handbook on how to have candid conversations around race and become a better advocate, written by a Black woman and a white woman who ask and answer 20 common, uncomfortable-but-critical questions about racism.
The Other Talk by A conversation with white kids about race in this accessible introduction to white privilege and why allyship is so vital.
Beyond Self-Defense by A feminist-forward guide to setting boundaries, assessing safety, and defusing violence.
Lunar New Year Love Story by ...no one in her family, for generations, has ever had any luck with love. But then a chance encounter with a pair of cute lion dancers sparks something in Val. Is it real love? Could this be her chance to break the family curse? Or is she destined to live with a broken heart forever?
The Will to Change by With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love.
The Male Gazed by Mingles personal anecdotes with cultural criticism to offer an exploration of intimacy, homoeroticism, and the danger of internalizing too many toxic ideas about masculinity as a gay man.
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling by Looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue.
