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| Street Smarts: A Personal Safety Guide for Women | Louise Rafkin | Self-defense |
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| Smile at Strangers | Shorn, Susan | Karate, fear, living fearlessly |
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| Skin, Tooth, and Bone: A Disability Justice Primer. | Sins Invalid. | sinsinvalid.org | ||
| No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality | Jordan Flaherty | goodreads.com | ||
| The Slave Ship: A Human History | Marcus Rediker | goodreads.com | ||
| Jump to ratings and reviews Rate this book Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing | Erin Jones | goodreads.com | ||
| Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement | Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha |
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| Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned | Amoja Three Rivers | goodreads.com | ||
| Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor | Layla Saad | goodreads.com | ||
| Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | goodreads.com | ||
| Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches | Audre Lorde | goodreads.com | ||
| Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation | Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah | goodreads.com | ||
| Exploding the Myth of Self-Defense | Judith Fein | self-defense, assertiveness |
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| Stopping Rape: Successful Survival Strategies | Pauline B. Bart, Patricia H. O'Brien | pioneering work |
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| Rate this book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | goodreads.com | ||
| Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women’s Self-Defense | Martha McCaughey | feminism, self-defense, physical feminism |
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| Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice | Judith L. Herman | trauma, justice, truth |
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| The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence | Gavin de Becker | survival signals, fear |
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| We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice | Mariame Kaba | goodreads.com | ||
| Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | goodreads.com | ||
| Abolition. Feminism. Now. | Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie | Feminism |
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| Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger | Lama Rod Owens | goodreads.com | ||
| Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus | Jennifer S. Hirsch, Shamus Khan | culture of violence, sexual assault, sexual violence |
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| How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | goodreads.com | ||
| The Lioness Within: A Woman's Self-defense Survival Guide | Graciela Casillas | survival |
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