BIPOC Voices
Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry: #ownvoices work by Black, Indigenous, and People of Color authors.
Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present
by Jamia Wilson Author and Andrea Pippins Illustrator
Short bios, relevant quotes, and vividly colorful illustrations combine to spotlight 52 of history’s black…
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Weird but Normal: Essays on the Awkward, Uncomfortable, Surprisingly Regular Parts of Being Human
by Mia Mercado Author
In this hilarious collection of essays, author Mia Mercado explores what it means to be a millenial woman. From gender…
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Add to CartFriday Black: Stories
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Author
A collection of short stories set in a dystopian near-future. Titled after the consumer "holiday," the stories explore…
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Add to CartThe Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
by Issa Rae Author
In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae waxes…
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Add to CartYou Can't Touch My Hair: and Other Things I Still Have to Explain
by Phoebe Robinson Author
A comedian and star of the 2 Dope Queens podcast, Phoebe Robinson's takes on race, gender, feminism, pop culture, hair…
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Add to CartWe are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays
by Samantha Irby Author
Job crap, awkward sex and dating, racism, biphobia, changing friendships, a difficult childhood, money problems, reality…
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Add to CartThe Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me
by Keah Brown Author
From the creator of the #DisabledAndCute hashtag, this is a story of a Black woman with a physical disability…
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Add to CartCitizen 13660
by Mine Okubo Author
Evocative and emotionally-expressive illustrations, each paired with a caption that show life in a US internment camp…
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Add to Carteven this page is white
by Vivek Shraya Author
Vivek Shraya hones her experiences as a brown trans woman in North America into sharply-pointed words and channels them…
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View Details Quick ShopBlack Queer Hoe
by Britteney Black Rose Kapri Author
A debut collection of poetry that proudly pirouettes at the intersection of sexuality and race. Rather than letting her…
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Add to CartThe Subtweet: A Novel
by Vivek Shraya Author
This is the best novel I've read in years. Vivek Shraya weaves a page-turning web of friendship, food, music, and…
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Add to CartMy Personal History of Race
by Cheyenne Winters Author
A short essay about how genetics, race, and PTSD can go hand in hand. Cheyenne writes about the effects of both…
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Add to CartMy Personal History of Race #2
by Cheyenne Winters Author
This is Part Two of My Personal History of Race (you can find part one here). The author talks about their journey of…
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Add to CartThe Crunk Feminist Collection
by Robin M. Boylorn Author, Brittney C. Cooper Author and Susana M. Morris Author
These defining essays on Hip Hop Generation Feminism came out of the incredibly popular Crunk Feminism blog, run by a…
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Add to CartBlack Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness
by Rebecca Walker Author
This collection of essays about what it means to be "cool," particularly in relation to Blackness, packs a punch.…
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Add to CartYes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab
by Huda Fahmy Author
A series of short comics with a wry, good-humored perspective on life as a Muslim-American in the US. Inside you'll roll…
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Add to CartThat Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
by Huda Fahmy Author
Comics artist Huda Fahmy shares the story of how she met and married her husband Gehad. If you're Muslim-American,…
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Add to CartIndestructible: Growing Up Queer, Cuban, and Punk in Miami
by Cristy C. Road Author
In her Miami high school Cristy Road valiantly tried to figure out and defend her queer gender identity, Cuban cultural…
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View Details Quick ShopJuliet Takes a Breath
by Gabby Rivera Author
This book is so good it'll have you reading bits out loud as you go, just to savor the humor and wisdom and teenage…
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Add to CartThe Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas Author
When a sixteen-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, witnesses the murder of her friend by a police officer, her surburban…
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View Details Quick ShopSurvival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
by Mitchell S. Jackson Author
Mitchell S. Jackson writes with nuance and brilliance about learning to survive in one of the whitest cities in…
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View Details Quick ShopBlack Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
by Ibi Zoboi Editor
An essential collection of short fiction for and about teens about so many different facets of what it is like to be…
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Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by Glory Edim Editor and Jesmyn Ward Contributor
A collection of essays by Black women writers about the first time they recognized themselves in the pages of a book.…
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Add to CartHood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot
Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk…
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Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
by Adonia E. Lugo, PhD Author
Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two…
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View Details Quick ShopThings That Make White People Uncomfortable
by Michael Bennett Author, Martellus Bennett Author and Dave Zirin Author
Football champion and activist Michael Bennet uses scathing humor and social critique to talk about racism and police…
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View Details Quick ShopStrange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
by Joel Christian Gill Author
Collecting stories from early African American history, this comic shows how people succeeded in the face of slavery…
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Add to CartThe Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
by Tamara Winfrey Harris Author
The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against…
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Add to CartDear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
by Jose Antonio Vargas Author
An immigrant who has found himself homeless and struggling, Jose Antonio Vargas says that "this is not a book about the…
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View Details Quick ShopWe Should All Be Feminists
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Author
The word "feminist" has a negative stigma for some people. In We Should All Be Feminists—adapted from her much-admired…
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Add to CartPurple Hibiscus: A Novel
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Author
Growing up in Enugu, Nigeria, Kambili and her brother Jaja live an upper-class life, detached from the world outside.…
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Author
This novel is everything. At its most simplistic, it's a love story set in Nigeria, the US, and the UK. It's so much…
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View Details Quick ShopDear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Author
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise…
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Add to CartAll About Love: New Visions
by bell hooks Author
Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our…
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Women of Color & Feminism
by Maythee Rojas, PhD Author
An in-depth look at feminism from the perspective of race. Rojas, a Latina from a working class background, draws on…
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Add to CartAwkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
by W. Kamau Bell Author
You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve…
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah Author
He may be a TV host, but his story is anything but normal. Learn how one of the most popular talk show personalities…
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Woman of Color
by Latonya Yvette Author
In this collection of essays, interviews, photographs, and tutorials LaTonya Yvette, a popular lifestyle…
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Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Octavia E. Butler Author, Damian Duffy Illustrator, John Jennings Illustrator and Nalo Hopkinson Author
Now in graphic novel format, Octavia Butler's classic and prescient dystopian novel. The story follows teenager Lauren…
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View Details Quick ShopKindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Octavia E. Butler Author, Damian Duffy Author and John Jennings Author
This graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's most celebrated and critically acclaimed work tells the story of…
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View Details Quick ShopThe Tears of the Black Man
by Alain Mabanckou Author and Dominic Thomas Translator
A dense collection of 12 essays containing an exploration of what it means to be Black in the world today.…
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Add to CartBlack Moses: A Novel
by Alain Mabanckou Author
Our hero is an orphan named Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko—his name means “Let us…
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Add to CartTrouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
by Samuel R. Delaney Author and Kathy Acker Foreword
First published in 1976, this innovative, highly intellectual novel by Samuel Delaney—one of science fiction's first…
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Add to CartSince I Laid My Burden Down
by Brontez Purnell Author
“Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means…
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Add to CartJohnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger
by Brontez Purnell Author
Somewhere between memoir and social analysis, Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger tells the story of a gay…
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Add to CartZero Fade
by Chris L. Terry Author
Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…
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Add to CartI Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez Author
The story of a pair of sisters, an untimely death, and a hunt to discover family secrets. After Julia leaves home to…
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View Details Quick ShopWhatever Happened to Interracial Love?
by Kathleen Collins Author
Kathleen Collins was a filmmaker, poet, writer, activist, and educator, who died young in the 1980s, leaving most of her…
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View Details Quick ShopThere There
by Tommy Orange Author
This novel follows twelve characters from Native communities as they all travel to the Big Oakland Powwow. The cast of…
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Add to CartJust Another Nigger: My Life in the Black Panther Party
by Don Cox Author
A memoir of Don Cox's years in the Black Panther party. Cox joined a year after its founding and rose through the ranks…
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Add to CartDrawing Blood
by Molly Crabapple Author
An artist turned model turned journalist whose career took off during the height of the Great Recession, Molly…
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View Details Quick ShopKindred
by Octavia E. Butler Author
Dana, a young, Black writer, is repeatedly sent back in time from her late 20th Century cosmopolitan life in Los Angeles…
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Add to CartTurning Japanese
by MariNaomi Author
In 1995, twenty-two-year-old Mari had just exited a long-term relationship, moving from Mill Valley to San Jose,…
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
by Alex Haley Author and Malcolm X Author
In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader,…
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Add to CartAngela Davis: An Autobiography
by Angela Davis Author
Originally published in 1974 and written when Angela Davis was 25, this is a fine telling of the situations and struggle…
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View Details Quick ShopAssata: An Autobiography
by Assata Shakur Author
With her hands raised on a New Jersey turnpike, Assata Shakur (godmother of Tupac) was shot by state troopers, claiming…
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Hot Comb
by Ebony Flowers Author
Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded,…
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View Details Quick ShopBreathe: A Letter to My Sons
by Imani Perry Author
A beautiful, thrilling, resonant letter from a Black parent to her children on what it means to be raising them in a…
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Add to CartYear of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
by Shonda Rhimes Author
Shonda Rhimes has created, written, and produced hit television shows like Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. She is an…
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View Details Quick ShopArab in America
by Toufic El Rassi Author
Through his own life story - from childhood to his life as an adult, Toufic El Rassi illustrates the prejudice and…
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Add to CartBig Black: Stand at Attica
by Jared Reinmuth Author, Frank “Big Black” Smith Author and Amazing Ameziane Illustrator
Big Black: Stand at Attica is a graphic novel memoir detailing one of the bloodiest days in history, September 13th…
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Add to CartWe've Been Too Patient
by L. D. Green Editor, Kelechi Ubozoh Editor, Robert Whitaker Foreword, Leah Harris Contributor, Jenny Darden Contributor, 17 more
This collection of 25 different stories delves into the current mental health culture that is plaguing our society.…
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Add to CartThe Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
by Michelle Cruz Gonzales Author
Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it…
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Add to CartFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange Author
This book wasn't written for most people - give the title another look - but it's a living "choreopoem" whose story…
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Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
by Lamont Author
"What y'all thought y'all wasn't gon' see me?.... Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits. Tremendous,…
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorde Author
The term Zami comes from the Carriacou word to describe women working together as friends, lovers, and companions. In…
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Add to CartDecoded by Jay-Z
by Jay-Z Author
Decoded is billed as rapper Jay-Z's annotated lyrics. In reality, it's a whip-smart, beautifully written memoir that…
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View Details Quick ShopDirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Author
Teenhood in the 1990s was full of the feeling that you could hit the road with a backpack and carve out your own life in…
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Add to CartWhat Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal
by Laina Dawes Author
With a personal Foreward by rocker Skin, What Are You Doing Here reveals the dual-outsider dilemma of black women…
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Accepting Failure
by Ana López Author
This zine feels simultaneously handwritten in a single draft and deeply thoughtful and profound. Ana traces historical…
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James Baldwin poster
“To be Black and conscious in America is to live in a constant state of rage.”—James Baldwin Black, queer…
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Add to CartOctavia E. Butler poster
by Octavia E. Butler Author
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” —Octavia E. Butler Groundbreaking science fiction…
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