For #SAAM we will sharing some of the reading materials that have:
📗shaped our understanding of gender violence;
📘helped in our healing;
📙and expanded our organizing skills.
Check out this list of literature and feel free to share some of your own!
Know My Name by Chanel Miller is a must read (!!!) memoir in which Miller shares personal experiences of sexual assault, challenges rape myths, and explores her journey of healing.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/553663/k…
Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Healing #MeToo is a collection of new and previously published writings. Our favorite parts explore the longer histories of organizing against sexual violence that the #MeToo moment obscures.
Download it here for free!
versobooks.com/books/2773-whe…
In Lucky, Alice Sebold explores her personal experiences with sexual assault in college and defines how those experiences shaped the rest of her life. panmacmillan.com/authors/alice-…
In this op-ed, KYIX co-founder @azbrodsky discusses how often times, being a survivor is a totalizing identity. She offers that survivor activists can only flourish when they are given the space to be not just survivors, but full human beings. feministing.com/2016/03/28/sad…
Burn It Down! Feminists Manifestos for the Revolution
is a comprehensive collection of over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action.
Download it here for $10! versobooks.com/books/3151-bur…
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