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Tired of white tech bro narratives? Here are #100BrilliantAuthors #women #nonbinary who inform, energize, and inspire 🔥🔥🔥#AIEthics #BlackFeminism #Gender #RacialJustice #SocialJustice #AlgorithmicJustice #Privacy #Surveillance #Equality #SciFi #Bookchat #RepresentationMatters

1. "Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism" by bell hooks @bellhooks A classic work of feminist scholarship, a must-read for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978113882…

2. "Algorithms of Oppression" by Safiya Noble@safiyanoblehow negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat Algorithmic Justicehttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9781479837243

3. "All the Birds in the Sky" by Charlie Jane Anders@charliejane humorous and, at times, heart-breaking exploration of growing up extraordinary in world filled with cruelty, scientific ingenuity, and magic.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978076537…

4. "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz @rdunbaro The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJustice indiebound.org/book/978080705…

5. "And Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou @DrMayaAngelouWritten from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Feminism indiebound.org/book/978073933…

6. "Artificial Unintelligence" by Meredith Broussard @merbroussard Sharp critique of our collective enthusiasm for applying technology to every aspect of life, which ha resulted in a glut of poorly designed systems #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978026253…

7. "Assata Taught Me" by Donna Murch @murchnik Incisive analysis of the history and politics of Black liberation struggle by radical scholar Donna Murch.@haymarketbooks #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJustice
haymarketbooks.org/books/1650-ass…

8. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought by @DrGuySheftall First major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in the United States #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978156584…

9. Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks@PopTechWorks Systematic investigation of the impact of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor working-class people in America#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978125021…

10. "Autonomous" by Annalee Newitz @AnnaleenAutonomous poses questions about AI, consciousness, and ownership against the backdrop of Earth in 2144#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fictionhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780765392084

11. "Bad Feminist" by Roxane Gay @rgay A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Feminism indiebound.org/book/978006228…

12. "Behind the Screen" by Sarah T. Roberts@ubiquity75An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Inequality #Ghostwork indiebound.org/book/978030023…

13. Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing by @S_Andrea_AllenCompilation of speculative writing, including science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, and Afrofuturism by Black women writers #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978057850…

14. Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by @emilychangtvTV journalist reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Techchauvinism indiebound.org/book/978052554…

15. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson @Isabelwilkerson Deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978059323…

16. Cloneby Priya Sarukkai Chabria @PriyaChabria The riveting tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fictionhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9789385932434

17. Cloud Ethics by Louise Amoore @AmooreLouisean approach to holding algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #AlgorithmicJustice indiebound.org/book/978147800…

18. Dark Matters by Simone Browne who locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Surveillance indiebound.org/book/978082235…

19. Dark Money by Jane Mayer who shows how Wealth and power, with the help of federal law, flows to a set of institutions that aim to fight scientific advancement, justice-oriented movements, and climate change.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978030794…

20. and 21. Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio @kanarinkaA and Lauren F. Klein @laurenfklein shows us a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978026204…

22. Design Justice : Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by @schock An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978026204…

23. Digitizing Race by Lisa Nakamura @lnakamurExamination of uses of the Internet such as pregnancy sites, instant messaging... to look at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978081664…

24. Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper @ProfessorCrunk This book argues that ultimately feminism, friendship, and faith in one's own superpowers are all we really need to turn things right side up again. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJustice indiebound.org/book/978125011…

25. Everfair by Nisi Shawl @NisiShawl This alternate-history novel set in the Belgian Congo was a finalist for the 2016 Nebula Award. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978076533…

26. Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang @LeslieTChang looks into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #GenderEquality indiebound.org/book/978038552…

27. Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the 21st Century by @DorothyERoberts Must-read on interplay of gender, race, class in legal issues - reproduction,bioethics, child welfare #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat thenewpress.com/books/fatal-in…

28. Young Revolutionary: A Teen’s Guide to Activism by Chanice Lee will give you the confidence, tools, and resources you need to be a successful activist.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978099689…

29. From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton @elizabhinton traces rise of mass incarceration, how “land of the free” became world’s largest prison system #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978067497…

30. Gender Troubleby Judith Butler A powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978041538…

31. Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray@marylgray Expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web—and that foreshadows the true future of work#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Inequalityhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9781328566249

32. Ghosts in the Schoolyardby Eve L. Ewing@eveewing Story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust, reveals that this issue is about much more than just school closings. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978022652…

33. Hidden Figuresby Margot Lee Shetterly@margotshetterlyA true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978006247…

34. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgotby Mikki Kendall @Karnythia Critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in Black feminism#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978052556…

35. Hopeful Monsters by Hiromi Goto @hinganai A fierce queer Japanese Canadian writer whose hopeful monsters are women haunted by familial duty and the ghosts of their past. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978155152…

36. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by @KeeangaYamahtta In this collection of essays and interviews, founding members and contemporary activists reflect its contributions to Black feminism #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat haymarketbooks.org/books/1375-how…

37. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker In her first collection of nonfiction, she speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #BlackFeminism indiebound.org/book/978015602…

38. Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez@CCriadoPerez Data Bias in a World Designed for Men #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Technochauvinism indiebound.org/book/978141972…

39. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler @OctaviaEButler Time travel by Black female hero back in time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978080708…

40. Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle@STurkle A classic! Computers, the internet and identity (Published in 1995) #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Inequalityhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780684833484

41. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad This book takes readers on a 28-day journey to do the necessary work that can lead to improving race relations. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978172820…

42. Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington@haw95A history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978076791…

43. Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solint Insights on conversations with men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat
indiebound.org/book/978160846…

44. Mirror in the Sky by Aditi Khorana@aditi_khorana Cultural struggles meet imaginative science fiction in this thoughtful YA novel #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978159514…

45. My Mother Was a Freedom Fighterby Aja Monet@aja_monet Poet Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat haymarketbooks.org/books/1067-my-…

46. My Own Wordsby Ruth Bader Ginsburg In this collection Justice Ginsburg discussed gender equality, workings of Supreme Court, being Jewish, value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat
indiebound.org/book/978150114…

47. My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy @aroybot Essays form a memoir of Arundhati Roy’s journey as both a writer and a citizen, of both India and the world@haymarketbooks #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat haymarketbooks.org/books/1301-my-…

48. On Intersectionality: Essential Writings by Kimberle Crenshaw @sandylocksKey essays and articles on the concept which has come to define contemporary debates over race, gender, and sexual orientation. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978162097…

49. Privacy in Context by Helen NissenBaum@HNissenbaum Privacy, one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978080475…

50. Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz @carissavelizWhy and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat penguin.co.uk/books/112/1120…

51. Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks @histoftech Story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978026253…

52. Punishment Without Crime by Alexandra Natapoff@ANatapoff A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJusticehttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780465093793

53. Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin @ruha9 Cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJustice indiebound.org/book/978150952…

54. Responsible Artificial Intelligence by Virginia Dignum@vdignum examines the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence systems as they integrate and replace traditional social structures #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978303030…

55. So You Want to Talk About Race?by Ijeoma Oluo @IjeomaOluoAn attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978158005…

56. Speak by Louisa Halllooks at what the invention of sentient, conversational AI might do to human communication #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #fiction #scifi indiebound.org/book/978006239…

57. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane @JanelleCShane shows how AI systems learn, fail, and adapt--and how they reflect the best and worst of humanity. indiebound.org/book/978031652…

58. Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton @arwenelysdayton Science fiction - a series of interconnected stories that look at how genetic engineering might impact human society and culture#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction #Scifi indiebound.org/book/978052563…

59. Stuck in the Shallow Endby Jane MargolisAbout the structures and forces that limit access to computer science education for female students and students of color#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978026251…

60. Technically Wrongby Sara Wachter-Boettcher@sara_ann_marieOversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat Generalhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393356045

61. Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams@KatieBoWillSet in the near future, involves a machine that can tell people how to optimize their happiness#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction #scifi indiebound.org/book/978052553…

62. The Age of Surveillance Capitalismby Shoshana Zuboff @shoshanazuboff Detailed examination of the unprecedented power of powerful corporations to surveil, predict, and control our behavior.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978154175…

63. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson is a genre-bending memoir, offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978155597…

64. The Autobiography of a Sex Worker by Jameela Nalini is a candid account of one woman's life as a sex worker in Kerala, India #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Feminism indiebound.org/book/978818997…

65. The Battle for Paradise by Naomi Klein@NaomiAKlein shares how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation's radical, resilient vision for a "just recovery."#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat haymarketbooks.org/books/1235-the…

66. The Bees by Laline Paull @PaullLaline "The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games" in this fictional bee story where only the queen is allowed breed and deformity is expunged. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fictionhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062331175

67. The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by @amywebb A call-to-arms about the broken nature of AI, and big tech that's turning the human-machine relationship on its head. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978154177…

68. The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade BambaraA collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #BlackFeminism indiebound.org/book/978074347…

69. The Collected Schizophreniasby Esme Weijun Wang @esmewangHeartbreaking and honest collection about chronic mental illness and its effects through personal narrative and scientific research #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978155597…

70. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by @MehrsaBaradaran challenges the long-standing belief that black communities could ever really hope to accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978067423…

71. The Farm by Joanne Ramos Explores reproductive justice and surrogacy, with emphasis on class and race#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fictionhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9781984853752

72. The Female Man by Joanna Russ Fictional tale of four women living in parallel worlds whose encounters influence them to evaluate their lives and shape their ideas of what it means to be a woman. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978080706… #scifi

73. The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley @KameronHurley Collection of essays on feminism, geek culture #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978076538…

74. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing In this fictional novel, the late British-Zimbabwean novelist and nobel prize winner, chronicles the modern women's struggles with evolving gender dynamics #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978055326…

75. The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodView into a fictional dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978038549…

76. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by @RebeccaSkloot is an incisive look at the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, bioethics, and informed consent. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978140005…

77. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinThrough fiction, exploring the issues of sexual prejudice and gender on an alien world #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #fiction #scifi indiebound.org/book/978044147…

78. The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusaderby Ida B. Wells Comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #BlackFeminism #RacialJusticehttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143106821

79. The Misinformation Age by Cailin O'Connor,@cailinmeister Looks at how misinformation spreads, online and through communities #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat
indiebound.org/book/978030025…

80. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander @thenewjimcrow History of America's Jim Crow past & current legal policies that contribute to mass incarceration of black people. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978162097…

81. The Origin of Othersby Toni Morrison reflects on the core themes of her work and increasingly dominant global trends around race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, and the desire for belonging.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJustice indiebound.org/book/978067497…

82. and 83. The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women by @lisawhiting and @RebeccaBuxton At last, a book about the lives and works of women in philosophy by women in philosophy. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978178352…

84. The Selected Works of Audre LordeThis book showcases her contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies curated by Roxane Gay @rgay #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978132400…

85. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert@ElizKolbert is a powerful and important book about the future of the world #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #ClimateChange indiebound.org/book/978144236…

86. This is Why We Can't Have Nice Thingsby Whitney Philips dissects why the troll problem is actually a culture problem and how online trolling fits comfortably within today's media landscape. #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978026252…

87. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
@jiatolentinoCompilation of essays, which explore our disturbing relationship with technology#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #TechDystopia
indiebound.org/book/978052551…

88. Twitter and Tear Gasby Zeynep Tufekci
@zeynep
Highlights power and weaknesses of using new technologies in social movements
#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #SocialJustice
indiebound.org/book/978030023…

89. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers@CharleneCac A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which reimagines the Black Radical Tradition.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978080703…

90. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener @annawienerMemoir by a woman who moved to SF to work in tech, from a humanities background, and became incredibly disillusioned with the tech industry culture #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978037427…

91. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie @ChimamandaReal offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978110191…

92. Weapons of Math Destructionby Cathy O'Neil@mathbabedotorg The definitive guide to mathematical models that pervade modern life and are ripping apart our social fabric #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat Algorithmic Justicehttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735286511

93. Whistleblower by Susan Fowler
Memoir of the brave woman who exposed rampant sexual harassment and discrimination at Uber#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Sexism indiebound.org/book/978052556…

94. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJustice indiebound.org/book/978163286…

95. Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor @NnediSharp fictional story of a woman born of rape into a post-apocalyptic African landscape.
#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction indiebound.org/book/978075640…

96. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge @renireni Wake-up call to Britain, a nation in denial about the structural and institutional racism in its society.
#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978154364…

97. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Dr. Jung Chang offers a rare insight into twentieth-century China through the lens of three generations of women #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fictionhttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780743246989

98. Women & Power: A Manifestoby Mary Beard@wmarybeard addresses the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #techdystopia #Feminism
indiebound.org/book/978163149…

99. Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present,#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #RacialJusticehttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780394713519

100. and 101. Surrogate Humanity by Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora explores how robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for humans within a labor system of racial capitalism & patriarchy #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978147800…

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16. Clone by Priya Sarukkai Chabria @PriyaChabria
The riveting tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India #100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat #Fiction
indiebound.org/book/978938593…

102. Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial differences.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978080702…

103. The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks @ma_franks Provocative book that examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. #100BrilliantAuthors #Bookchat indiebound.org/book/978150361…

104. & 105. "Unacceptable" by Melissa Korn @melissakorn and Jennifer Levitz @jenniferlevitz True crime story of fraud, corruption, greed, celebrity, justice in the cheating scandal that shattered the myth of meritocracy.#100BrilliantAuthors #BookChat indiebound.org/book/978059308…