BIPOC Voices

Short bios, relevant quotes, and vividly colorful illustrations combine to spotlight 52 of history’s black…

In this hilarious collection of essays, author Mia Mercado explores what it means to be a millenial woman. From gender…

A collection of short stories set in a dystopian near-future. Titled after the consumer "holiday,"  the stories explore…

In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae waxes…

A comedian and star of the 2 Dope Queens podcast, Phoebe Robinson's takes on race, gender, feminism, pop culture, hair…

Job crap, awkward sex and dating, racism, biphobia, changing friendships, a difficult childhood, money problems, reality…

From the creator of the #DisabledAndCute hashtag, this is a story of a Black woman with a physical disability…

Evocative and emotionally-expressive illustrations, each paired with a caption that show life in a US internment camp…

Vivek Shraya hones her experiences as a brown trans woman in North America into sharply-pointed words and channels them…

A debut collection of poetry that proudly pirouettes at the intersection of sexuality and race. Rather than letting her…

This is the best novel I've read in years. Vivek Shraya weaves a page-turning web of friendship, food, music, and…

These defining essays on Hip Hop Generation Feminism came out of the incredibly popular Crunk Feminism blog, run by a…

This collection of essays about what it means to be "cool," particularly in relation to Blackness, packs a punch.…

A series of short comics with a wry, good-humored perspective on life as a Muslim-American in the US. Inside you'll roll…

Comics artist Huda Fahmy shares the story of how she met and married her husband Gehad. If you're Muslim-American,…

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…

When a sixteen-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, witnesses the murder of her friend by a police officer, her surburban…

Mitchell S. Jackson writes with nuance and brilliance about learning to survive in one of the whitest cities in…

An essential collection of short fiction for and about teens about so many different facets of what it is like to be…

A collection of essays by Black women writers about the first time they recognized themselves in the pages of a book.…

Today’s feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk…

Football champion and activist Michael Bennet uses scathing humor and social critique to talk about racism and police…

Collecting stories from early African American history, this comic shows how people succeeded in the face of slavery…

The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against…

An immigrant who has found himself homeless and struggling, Jose Antonio Vargas says that "this is not a book about the…

The word "feminist" has a negative stigma for some people. In We Should All Be Feminists—adapted from her much-admired…

Growing up in Enugu, Nigeria, Kambili and her brother Jaja live an upper-class life, detached from the world outside.…

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…

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise…

Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our…

An in-depth look at feminism from the perspective of race. Rojas, a Latina from a working class background, draws on…

You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve…

He may be a TV host, but his story is anything but normal. Learn how one of the most popular talk show personalities…

In this collection of essays, interviews, photographs, and tutorials LaTonya Yvette, a popular lifestyle…

Now in graphic novel format, Octavia Butler's classic and prescient dystopian novel. The story follows teenager Lauren…

This graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's most celebrated and critically acclaimed work tells the story of…

A dense collection of 12 essays containing an exploration of what it means to be Black in the world today.…

Our hero is an orphan named Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko—his name means “Let us…

First published in 1976, this innovative, highly intellectual novel by Samuel Delaney—one of science fiction's first…

“Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means…

Somewhere between memoir and social analysis, Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger tells the story of a gay…

Chris Terry's young adult novel Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia teen Kevin…

The story of a pair of sisters, an untimely death, and a hunt to discover family secrets. After Julia leaves home to…

Kathleen Collins was a filmmaker, poet, writer, activist, and educator, who died young in the 1980s, leaving most of her…

This novel follows twelve characters from Native communities as they all travel to the Big Oakland Powwow. The cast of…

A memoir of Don Cox's years in the Black Panther party. Cox joined a year after its founding and rose through the ranks…

In this collection of essays Hanif Abdurraqib interprets the world through music and culture. He writes about Chance…

An artist turned model turned journalist whose career took off during the height of the Great Recession, Molly…

Dana, a young, Black writer, is repeatedly sent back in time from her late 20th Century cosmopolitan life in Los Angeles…

In 1995, twenty-two-year-old Mari had just exited a long-term relationship, moving from Mill Valley to San Jose,…

In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader,…

Originally published in 1974 and written when Angela Davis was 25, this is a fine telling of the situations and struggle…

With her hands raised on a New Jersey turnpike, Assata Shakur (godmother of Tupac) was shot by state troopers, claiming…

Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded,…

A beautiful, thrilling, resonant letter from a Black parent to her children on what it means to be raising them in a…

A coming of age story about a small town mid-western teen struggling with the issues of: race, drugs, queer culture,…

Shonda Rhimes has created, written, and produced hit television shows like Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. She is an…

Through his own life story - from childhood to his life as an adult, Toufic El Rassi illustrates the prejudice and…

Big Black: Stand at Attica is a graphic novel memoir detailing one of the bloodiest days in history, September 13th…

This collection of 25 different stories delves into the current mental health culture that is plaguing our society.…

Though not a riot grrl band, Spitboy blazed trails for women musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, but it…

This book wasn't written for most people - give the title another look - but it's a living "choreopoem" whose story…

"What y'all thought y'all wasn't gon' see me?.... Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits. Tremendous,…

The term Zami comes from the Carriacou word to describe women working together as friends, lovers, and companions. In…

Decoded is billed as rapper Jay-Z's annotated lyrics. In reality, it's a whip-smart, beautifully written memoir that…

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…

With a personal Foreward by rocker Skin, What Are You Doing Here reveals the dual-outsider dilemma of black women…

“To be Black and conscious in America is to live in a constant state of rage.”—James Baldwin  Black, queer…

“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” —Octavia E. Butler  Groundbreaking science fiction…