1. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
2. Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal
3. Tierra de mujeres by Maria Sánchez
“My surprise Sant Jordi book from 2020! The book was a nice step away from my usual urban obsession to explore the role of women in rural Spanish society and of course to reflect on the relationship between the rural and the urban.” – Helen Cole
4. Ciudad Princesa by Marina Garcés
5. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
“Invisible Women is an enlightening book that exposes the many contexts in which data is biased in relation to gender. The author demonstrate how gender inequality will prevail depending on how we produce, analyse or hide data in many different fields including medicine, industrial design, artifical intelligence, the labor market and the public space.” – Amalia Calderón Argelich
6. I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW
“Brené shares how society tells us women that “being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate.” Brené’s research reveals that it is precisely our imperfections that connect us to one another. This book has been crucial in my personal and professional journey to recover from perfectionism and counter imposter syndrome, especially as a young woman of color in a white, male-dominated field.” – Andréanne Carbonneau
7. Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
“I had heard about Wangari being the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, but she’s done so much more than that! She was a trailblazer, being the first woman in East and Central Africa to receive a PhD and being elected to Kenya’s parliament in the first free elections after a generation. She went through many vicissitudes, facing gender, racial, ethnic and cultural discrimination, poverty and political boycotting, but she remained “unbowed”. These challenges fed her passion to fight for environmental conservation, women’s rights and democracy.” – Ana Terra Maia
8. Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival by Gargi Bhattacharyya
“An important intervention in critical discussions of racial capitalism, I especially enjoyed this book because Bhattacharyya makes the topic so accessible and understandable – including great injections of tongue-in-cheek humour. She is a prolific writer on questions of race, power, sexuality, and is an active trade union organiser at the University of East London.” – Melissa García Lamarca
9. Women write political ecology by Ariel Salleh
“Women write political ecology has been eye-opening for me, in terms of settling eco-feminist studies as a foundation for degrowth.” – Filka Sekulova
10. Black in Place by Brandi Thompson Summers
“In this vivid analysis of H street in Washington DC, Brandi Summers demonstrates how the coolness of Black culture is easily appropriated in neighborhood redevelpment and rebranding while displacing the practices and right to place of long-time Black residents.” – Isabelle Anguelovski
