The For Harriet Reader Vol.

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Every two weeks, For Harriet’s editor-in-chief, Kimberly Foster, reviews the books, articles,
podcast and videos that have most impacted her thinking and lists them here. Kimberly does
not necessarily endorse all of the arguments presented in these pieces, but they are useful
catalysts for thoughtful meditation on our current sociopolitical landscape.

- Books
•Feminism
- Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color,
anthology
•Political Science
- Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics,
Michael Dawson
•Misogynoir
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America, Melissa Harris-Perry
•Prison Reform & Abolition
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan
Stevenson
•Racism
- Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism,
Derrick Bell
•Sociology
- The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American
Segregation, Natalie Y. Moore
- Articles
•Feminism
- Combahee River Collective Statement
- Identity politics has veered away from its roots. It's time to bring
it back., Kimberly Foster
- The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism, Audre Lorde
 •Gender
- Today’s Masculinity Is Stifling, Sarah Rich
- What Happens When Wives Earn More Than Husbands, NPR
•Immigration
- First glimpse of immigrant children at holding facility
- Separating Parent from Child has a History. Our History.,
Martha S. Jones
•Mental Health
- When It Hurts So Bad: On Fighting a Depressive Episode, Bassey
Ikpi
•Police
- The History of Policing in the United States, Part 1, Dr. Gary
Potter
•Prison Reform and Abolition
- Tutorial: Introduction to Restorative Justice
•Racism
- Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence
Dilemma, Derrick Bell
•Sexual Assault
- PUNISHMENT IS NOT JUSTICE: DEFYING DEFINITIONS AFTER
SEXUAL VIOLENCE, Wendy C. Ortiz
- This Is Not Just About Junot Díaz, Linda Martín Alcoff
- Time’s Up, Bill, Rebecca Traister
- Podcasts
- Convicted: Buried Alive