Books like I am your sister by Audre Lorde

A biomythography of the author's experiences and relationships with women, based on her childhood in Barbados and New York City, exploring themes of sexuality and identity among African American lesbians.

A powerful and poetic account of breast cancer survivor Audre Lorde's experience and transformation.

Black Feminist Thought offers a foundational overview of African‑American feminist theory, exploring the ideas of key thinkers such as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.

Joan Nestle’s essays chronicle her life as a working‑class, openly lesbian activist, tracing her involvement in the civil rights, feminist, and LGBTQ movements from the McCarthy era to the present.

Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white “color line,” the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality. At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public’s attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual “deviance” were used to reinforce each other’s terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis’s late nineteenth-century work on “sexual inversion,” the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer’s fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. Queering the Color Line will have broad appeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.

Feminism: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of feminist history, defining second- and third-wave feminism while presenting biographies, organizational directories, and essential resources for students, librarians, and advocates.

Audre Lorde’s "ZAMI; Sister Outsider; Undersong" compiles powerful autobiographical poetry, essays, and lyrical verse that trace her journey as a Black lesbian feminist, celebrating women who shaped her life and insisting on the strength of shared experience.

A collection of bell hooks’s essays from the 1980s that intertwine cultural criticism, pedagogy, and politics to challenge oppression and explore race, gender, and identity.